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Paradoxically, polls show that concern about the environment is much higher now than a year ago. But the defeats contain some valuable lessons for environmentalists. Among them: 1) proposals should be simple and well focused, 2) plans that shift power from localities to state capitals are a hard sell, and...
Last week, I read in The Crimson that the pinkers are planning to mount a counter-campaign. In the interest of my own personal sanity and the conservation of thumbtacks, I decided start my own group, ENOUGH. The philosophy is simple. Date and share an abode with whomever you please...
Granted, lights should be turned off. But such efforts should not be regarded as major actions of resource conservation. Turning off the lights is fine. Dumping an armload of newspapers into a box in the hallway in fine. But such virtuous actions are simply not enough.
Fuel prices have run up faster than ever before. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, jet-fuel prices more than doubled, to $1.46 per gal., before settling last week at $1.04. The U.S. airline industry consumes at least 15 billion gallons of jet fuel annually, which means that every 1 cents increase...
Some of the most ingenious cost-cutting measures are those dreamed up by Continental's Fuel Conservation Task Force. Seventeen fuel-guzzling old Series 10 DC-9s and 727-100s have been grounded. Airplanes will taxi out to the runway on one engine instead of two. Airliners parked at...