For more than a decade, the Chinese have been using biogas digesters to produce fuel for homes in rural areas. This article discusses the design, operation, and benefits of these digesters. This means of waste treatment helps improve sanitation, produce fertilizer, and save fossil fuels. (MA)

Summarizes the report prepared by the Ford Foundation's Energy Project with emphases upon three energy growth projects throughout the year 2,000, involving expanding rather than conserving energy supplies, creation of a "centralized governmental energy data bank" and establishing the philosophy of an "enough is best" approach…

High room temperatures can actually be harmful to children and teachers. (Author)

Makes several recommendations for energy conservation in a school district and suggests that financial savings be shared with the students as an incentive program. (WM)

Discusses the serious nature of the Energy Crisis'' and the dependence of the United States economy on imported hydrocarbons. Urges immediate action to alleviate the situation by increasing domestic production of oil, substituting coal for oil, and by conservation, especially in the use of automobile fuel. (JR)

Presents information to make intelligent purchasing decisions on heating, air conditioning, and ventilating equipment. (Author)

Methods for combatting the problem of skyrocketing fuel prices were discussed at an all-day seminar held recently in Richmond, Indiana. (Author/MLF)

Estimates of energy demand in the future must be approached with caution; however, evidence strongly suggests that future energy demand is by no means predetermined and that low-demand futures are quite feasible both technically and economically. (Author/RE)

The energy crisis can be a real burden on school transportation budgets. Suggested are items in departmental budgets that should be examined. Survey responses show what a number of school districts are doing to reduce fuel consumption. (Author/MLF)

Provides three checklists concerning school electricity utilization, temperature control, and motor vehicle fuel utilization. (JM)

Achieving sustainability requires pursuit of individual, family, and community solutions to environmental problems. Issues about the equitable use of resources and reduction of waste and consumption must be addressed through policies, regulations, and the building of global consensus. (SK)

Existing sociological analyses express differing expectations about state control over economic actors and the political feasibility of environmental regulation. Recent literature on the environmental state sees environmental protection as becoming a basic responsibility of postindustrial states, with economic actors no longer having the autonomy…

Discusses some of the results of a grant program conducted by the American Institute of Architects Research Corporation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Author/MLF)

Coal, at one-third the cost of natural gas and one-fifth the cost of oil, is our cheapest source of energy and is also in abundant supply. Because of significant technological advances, coal-fired equipment now approaches the clean and automatic operational characteristics of gas- and oil-fired boilers. For these reasons, and because schools are…

Thirty-one suggestions aimed at reducing student energy crisis problems are listed for institutions offering degree and non-credit programs for adults, to make it easier for students to continue their programs. The suggestions cover transportation; scheduling; course delivery; admission, registration, and advising; and payment procedures. (AG)