Word: conservationism
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The environmental community has its own ambitious campaign of sneak attacks. The League of Conservation Voters has devoted its $1.5 million kitty to defeat just 12 lawmakers (11 Republicans and one Democrat) whom the organization has called "the Dirty Dozen." The Sierra Club has targeted 30 races with a million...
Whatever one makes of the life of McGeorge Bundy [NATION, Sept. 30], former adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, he deserves more than a mention about his superb contribution to the public well-being during his 13 years as president of the Ford Foundation. I worked for the foundation under...
To rouse public concern, marine scientists and environmental activists have proclaimed 1997 the International Year of the Reef. They have persuaded the U.S. and other major countries to support a conservation offensive called the International Coral Reef Initiative. And perhaps most important, they have launched an ambitious project called the...
Source: National Parks and Conservation Association
That lethargic scene has been playing itself out for months now across broad swaths of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. City dwellers in those states, out for a Sunday afternoon drive in the country, may not recognize the creeping devastation sweeping past their car windows. Irrigated...