Word: conservationism
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Built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, the camp was originally called Hi-Catoctin. Franklin D. Roosevelt renamed it Shangri-La (after the Himalayan paradise in James Hilton's bestseller of that era) when he chose it for his summer retreat. As F.D.R.'s son...
Environmentalists and the fishermen were not satisfied. On behalf of the state's 30,000 commercial fishermen and several environmental groups, both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the broadly based Conservation Law Foundation of New England charged Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus with failing to protect the fisheries and sought to...
Conservation of Energy
Exploiting the Arctic fields will cost billions of rubles, but the Soviets cannot afford to ignore them. Petroleum is the lifeblood of their economic plans and political schemes. Though Moscow has told its East European allies to look elsewhere for additional oil, it still supplies 80% of the area'...
Another $200 million would go to conservation. One plan calls for modifying state buildings to cut down energy use by 25%: Brown wants more efficient lighting levels and heating-system maintenance. The remaining $100 million would be used to "grow fuel," as one state official put it, in a reforestation...