Word: conservationism
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In 1972, while Spenkelink was serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, he walked away from the minimum-security Slack Canyon Conservation Camp near Big Sur. Driving through Nebraska, he picked up a hitchhiker, Joe Szymankiewicz, 43, an Ohio parole violator who had spent 16 years behind bars for...
Jonathan King, a professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said yesterday laboratories such as Draper should "convert weapons labs to more productive needs, such as developing computerized conservation technology."
By the millions, however, Americans were still saying no to the calls for conservation. Only a minority of people switched to public transportation, and that may be temporary. Large cities reported slightly more passengers on buses and subways. Reservations increased by 16% on airlines and by 40% on Amtrak'...
Anger at the industry helps an Alaska conservation bill
Big Oil clearly was in trouble. By a vote of 268 to 157, the House had just approved a proposal that the industry thought it could defeat: legislation that would set aside 126 million acres of Alaska's most spectacular wilderness. The bill would place stringent limits on how...