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Olsen, Marvin E. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1976
The author discusses social values and goals from an ecological humanism viewpoint, with comparisons of national wealth, life style, and energy consumption between Sweden and the United States. (MF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Planning, Ecological Factors, Energy Conservation
Spitze, Hazel Taylor – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1978
Presents rationale for teaching resource conservation in home economics education with emphasis on voluntary simplicity as the life-style of the future and suggests fifteen teaching techniques to increase learner awareness of such problems as the energy shortage, rising cost of energy, and the manner in which energy is distributed among income…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Depleted Resources
Boyd, Jillian – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1978
A home economics classroom designed to conserve energy and encourage students to practice a simpler life-style is described, and a check list of forty-five suggestions for developing the home economics laboratory as an environmental model is presented. (BM)
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Consumer Education, Energy Conservation, Environmental Education
Graf, Catherine K.; Cowan, Donna L. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1979
Instead of a traditional home management house, the Home Economics Department of Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, is planning to build a "Resource Management Facility" in which students can also study the use of a variety of energy sources, including solar energy, to conserve fuels. (MF)
Descriptors: Building Design, College Buildings, Energy Conservation, Facility Planning
