An instructional unit incorporating some of the Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) hydrology protocols provides an excellent way to connect academic learning, scientific inquiry, multiple subjects, and the values required for concerned citizenship in a democracy. This article describes the GLOBE hydrology protocols…

This brochure is intended to educate the public about the need to conserve and preserve the earth's environment (man's habitat). It contains an introduction to the ocean world and threats to coastal habitat. Photos and narrative revolve around the theme "Earth is a Marine Habitat." Sections include: "The Web of…

This is the fourth program in the Science Safari series produced by the Fairfax Network of the Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools. It focuses on large animals, their life, advantages and disadvantages of their size, and the adaptations that allow them to survive in their environments. The large animals highlighted include the Komodo dragon,…

This book is designed for forest nursery planning and management by all levels of forestry professionals and non-professionals in India and abroad, and focuses on the preparation of high quality, healthy seedlings necessary for successful afforestation programs. The book is divided into five parts that discuss: (1) details of nursery preparations…

This study, measuring the nation's clean-up efforts, shows an overall decline in environmental quality in the U.S. over the past year. In 1974, called "the year of the trade off," the federal government relaxed environmental quality standards to relieve economic problems and to solve the energy crisis temporarily. (MA)

This activities book is used with an early childhood conservation education program. The activities are presented in four color-coded sections, each section representing one of the four seasons. Each activity includes a statement of purpose, list of materials needed, instructional strategies, and a list of supplementary activities. In addition to…

Despite a sharp lesson in the folly of excessive dependence on foreign sources of oil, we are now drifting into deeper dependence with no relief in sight. Congress and the Administration provide few indications that they are going to do anything substantive about it. Efforts at conservation have diminished. (RH)

Announces completion of a final report and summarizes recommendations of the Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project based on analyses of three different scenarios of how America's energy future might develop. The study urges that many conservation measures be planned and implemented. (RH)

Article described a handbook designed not only to acquaint teachers with simple energy-saving tasks that students can perform but also to help them to understand the concepts dealt with in the lesson plans. (Author/RK)

Environmental interpretation has its roots in conservation. Today most interpreters recognize its importance in conserving natural and cultural resources. Nonetheless the field has invested little in contemplating how interpretation can be a mechanism for conservation. Meanwhile in the biological conservation field, the Conservation Measures…

The House of Representatives Bill 39, if passed, would designate new or expanded national parks, wildlife refuges, forests, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness areas on less than 100 million acres of public land in Alaska. (Author/MJB)

If animal extinction continues to accelerate at the rate that prevailed from the beginning of the century, then virtually all wildlife will be gone within 30 years. The great crusades of the past and current campaigns to save animal lives are discussed. (RM)

Examines and compares accomplishments, objectives, and ideals of Isabella Bird, Mary Austin, Rachel Carson, and Annie Dillard. Also considers their interactions with males promoting conservation and the ideological framework they brought to their crusades and to conflicts that developed. (BC)

Reviewed are some of the environmental periodical literature available to the public. The periodicals are divided into three categories: periodicals that deal chiefly with environmental problems and research, periodicals that are generally classified as conservation and nature magazines, and periodicals from other fields that include material on…