Environmental education activities of some Washington-based, professional science-oriented organizations and federal agencies concerned with environmental improvement are described in this newsletter. Its purpose is to acquaint persons with the activities of representative environmental concern groups in the nation's capital, since a substantial…

Seventy-one national reports submitted for consideration at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, June, 1972, are summarized in this compilation. They mark an effort to identify major environmental problems which are international, multinational, national or more than local concern and the actions taken or proposed…

This report contains the collective views of an international group of experts presented at a meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Planning, Organization, and Administration of National Environmental Health Programmes held in Geneva, 1969. Attention of the Committee focused on environmental health as the…

Brief historical and contemporary review of the U.S. energy situation, containing statistics related to energy needs, population growth, legislative policies and acts, and industrial efforts. Maintains that current energy crisis'' does not come from a shortage of resources, but rather from short-sighted policy. (LK)

Reported are some significant events of 1972 related to the use and management of natural resources. Topics summarized include federal legislation for environmental quality; specific legislation for water quality; the development of state plans for achieving standards and controls related to air quality; population growth; land use and land…

This plan, worked out in accordance with the Comprehensive National Land Development Act of 1950, provides the basic direction for national development based upon a long range and comprehensive viewpoint. The broad purpose of the plan is to create a desirable environment while attempting to adapt to the new society and deal with current regional…

Working with the United Nations Development Program, the Mexican government's Program for Environmental Improvement is planning, coordinating, operating and monitoring pollution abatement programs in the areas of air, water, solid waste and pesticides. A brief discussion of activities is given. (BT)

Presents nine recommendations developed at the 1992 Policy Issue Forum of the Aspen Institute's Program on Policy Issues in Energy and Resources. The underlying theme is that the world is entering a new era of environmental policy formation. Issues a call for a national strategy for environmental management. (SLD)

TO COPE WITH THE PROBLEMS OF OUR COMPLEX SOCIETY, IT IS NECESSARY TO FACE THE REALITY OF CHANGE. ADDING TO THIS COMPLEXITY, MOST OF OUR PEOPLE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE NEIGHBORS ARE FACELESS AND WHERE DECISIONS ARE FAR REMOVED. AS A CONSEQUENCE, IT IS DIFFICULT FOR THE TYPICAL PERSON TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF HIS OWN LIFE AND TO FIND REAL MEANING AND…

This report by National Goals Research Staff, established by President Nixon, is designed not as a listing of specific national goals to be sought but as a springboard for discussion and an aid to decision. It does not presume to say what our choices should be. Rather, it defines the questions, analyzes the debates, and examines the alternative…

Maintains that the United States needs an environmentally literate citizenry capable of taking individual action and making informed public policy decisions. Asserts that environmental education is interdisciplinary and draws from the social studies, the sciences, language arts, and the fine arts. (CFR)