Discusses how schools can benefit by establishing sustainable purchasing practices for furniture and furnishings. Describes the elements of sustainable purchasing (reduce, reuse, recycle; ingredients/contents; emissions/indoor air quality; and corporate guidelines), and the added vigilance required of purchasing agents. (EV)

This article examines the classification and protection of ancient forest stands in eastern forests. Local residents united with environmental groups stopped U.S. Forest Service plans to clearcut old growth portions of the Big Ivy Watershed in Pisgah National Forest until 1997. (LZ)

This essay examines the human-nature relationship in the context of Christianity and a biblical framework. The author's approach emphasizes a stewardship ethic and stresses humanity's role in watching over and serving creation. (LZ)

Examines the use of ecolabels, or seals of approval given to manufactured products deemed to have fewer impacts on the environment than functionally and competitively similar products. Discusses the effects of voluntary labeling schemes rather than mandatory controls and argues that voluntary labeling results in industry-set standards. (LZ)

Describes a park visitor management program called Visitor Experience and Resource Protection (VERP) being pioneered at the Arches National Park to relieve crowding. The program involves managing visitor impacts and depends in part on visitor surveys. (LZ)

In Wisconsin, Chippewa tribal harvests have not had a negative impact on populations of lake trout, walleye, fishers, and white-tailed deer. The treaty rights controversy is fueled by uncertainties about the status of natural resources, uncertainties that could be addressed by cooperative state-tribal wildlife management programs. (SV)

A survey of Minnesota businesses about their efforts to buy recycled content products. Results discuss reactive versus proactive policies, the corporate advantage of environmental protection, how efforts are hampered by confusion, suppliers as key informants, and businesses' need for information. (MDH)

Summarizes environmental challenges and discusses the need and opportunity for older adults to actively engage in environmental activism, independently, and with other age groups. Much needs to be done to encourage elders to participate and to develop intergenerational approaches to building a positive environmental legacy. (Author)

Thought and practice from the green movement should be used to widen understanding of the environment and development of community projects for a sustainable economy and convivial communities. In turn, community development's expertise in democratic processes could inform environmental action. (SK)

Discusses Villanova University's (Pennsylvania) development of a stormwater wetland area to help collect water from small storms, remove sediment and pollutants, and return the water into a local stream. (GR)

Presents a personal response to a set of critical commentaries on significant life experience research which formed a special issue of this journal and a symposium on the same subject at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2000). (Contains 29 references.) (YDS)

It is well known that proteins are abundant in food and are vital to nutrition and biochemical function. What is not well known is that proteins derived from agricultural sources are used in everyday products such as glue and textiles. Research continues to find new uses for proteins in a wide variety of applications, most of which would be…

"Toward a Sustainable Future: The Role of Student Affairs in Creating Healthy Environments, Social Justice, and Strong Economies" is a call to action for college student educators, articulating the crucial role they play in the international sustainability movement. It contains valuable information about educating self, educating students, and…

"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…

Part of any effort made by the California Postsecondary Education Commission to better understand the nexus between postsecondary education and the workforce is learning more about emerging economic and workforce trends. The emergence of the "green economy"-- economic activity based on environmentally-friendly, sustainable principles and…