Word: conservationism
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In November 1963 Rothschild and five other people formed the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, and gathered about 30 conservation organizations to aid its cause.
Now that the holiday season is over, what should be done with old Christmas trees? Henry L. Diamond, New York State's commissioner of environmental conservation, last week warned that burning them causes air pollution and burying them whole wastes scarce landfill areas. As a better ecological idea, Diamond...
After an acerbic debate with Kennedy in December, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton promised that no drilling would be allowed for at least two more years. Under law, Interior must make a study of the environmental consequences of the drilling. Invoking that law in another case, the Sierra Club and other...
"Farmer Boeing," as project officials sometimes call the company, plans to follow the potatoes with industrial development. Eventually, plans call for creation of a 10,000-resident city on the site of Boardman, Ore. (current pop. 337). In addition to these projects, Boeing has gone into a variety of other...
W.W.F. is not without its critics, many of them environmental activists who feel that fund members take a dilettante view of conservation. "What they do is fine," says Joan McIntyre, a member of the New York City-based Friends of the Earth. "The problem lies more in what they haven...