Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Conservation has become both chic and controversial in Portland, which has perhaps the most far-reaching municipal energy-saving programs in the U.S. The city government has tried to fight fuel waste by discouraging the use of automobiles and by encouraging citizens to weatherize their homes and businesses. The goal...
Atlanta's new tower has become a laboratory for energy-saving devices. A computer automatically shuts off all lights at 6 p.m. unless instructed to leave some on. Advanced sodium-vapor light fixtures focus illumination on desks instead of dispersing the glow throughout the room. This alone should cut...
AND AS HE LIES in peaceful quiet sleep, A vision came unbidden to his head: He saw the birds that fly, the beasts that creep, He saw the teeming living and the dead. Surveying all, he looked first to the north And at the pole, he caught sight of a...
NOW LEAVE THE HALLS of power, and follow through the streets, Join us in a Yuletide round and see the souls we meet. Down the block there's Daniel Steiner--Of prudent lawyers there could be no finer. Across the Yard, Our Dean, Hank Rosovsky, Stares at the emptying coffers...
I was impressed by the efforts to conserve energy made by the communities you mentioned in "Looking Ahead by Cutting Back" [Nov. 10]. The fact that in spite of their sacrifices-using candles, turning down the thermostat-they could cut back only around 17% shows that conservation merely slows the...