Word: conservationism
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But such individual conservation concerns are the exception. With big cars dominating driveways, with Cuisinarts and Hotpoints filling kitchens (along with every other conceivable appliance from microwave ovens to garbage compactors), the villagers are hardly in a frame of mind to respond to the energy crisis. The home air conditioners...
Rösrath's moderate climate helps energy conservation. During the Hinsdale summers, the mercury often climbs into the 90s, but it seldom rises above the mid-70s in the German suburb, which has no need for air conditioning. In the winter, when the temperature averages about 25°...
Yet the James ideal would not die. During Britain's General Strike of 1926, chaos beckoned; instead the populace cooperated, and the nation was actually strengthened by the imminence of peacetime catastrophe. In the '30s Depression, the moral equivalent of war was articulated and taken literally by the...
The label of War Substitute will not quite adhere to the energy crisis. Millions would agree with Scholar Irving Kristol, who acknowledges that the problem of finite energy is real enough. "I think it's reasonable to ask democratic people for self-sacrifice for limited periods of time for...
Is there a limit to the housing spiral? President Carter's energy conservation program, announced last week, will certainly take at least some of the luster off the great American Dream of a home in the suburbs. Gasoline prices -and thus commuting costs for many suburbanites-seem destined to...