Word: environmental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The educators who operate the private and state-funded Thomson Education Center set a wide range of high-minded goals for the students who participate in the program, ranging from the development of scientific skills to cultural awareness. Fundamentally, the two-and-a half-year-old program attempts to help...
On some days, the students will directly investigate the unique environment of the 160-acre island, a setting that includes salt marshes, forests, meadows, coves, orchards, beaches and clay cliffs. After some initial classroom instruction from the Thomson teachers, the group will go out to study the environment together, in...
Thomson's Island does seem to teach the skeptics a good deal about human nature and about what kids accustomed to a highly polarized setting beset by racial strife can accomplish, in a better environment. But for all the votes of approval from students, it is easy to forget that...
Regarding this bill, the stupidity of the majority of the members of the Legislature is disturbing but not surprising. I have learned that decision makers, like our group of legislators, evade thinking for themselves by relying on precedents and old residual public feeling. I have learned not to expect well...
Some of the most effective lobbying was done from a distance. "I never go to Capitol Hill," said Chris Farrand, director of energy and environment for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "I generate three or four calls to a Senator. He'll take those calls while three or four...