Word: preservationism
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For example, the Community Preservation Act was passed through the joint effort of local and state officials who established a fund to rejuvenate Cambridge's parks.
Publicly, Russia opposes ABM treaty changes and has linked further nuclear arms reductions to preservation of the treaty. Administration officials, however, feel that with enough pressure, Russia will be amenable to treaty modifications.
If governments want to protect land, the easiest way is to buy it and take it off the market. New Jersey has issued bonds to raise $1 billion for the preservation of farms and woodlands, and the U.S. Congress mandates the use of $900 million each year to purchase undeveloped...
Whether climbing Alaskan glaciers or guiding Teddy Roosevelt through Yosemite National Park, left, Scottish-born John Muir saw wilderness as something quasi-spiritual, where "tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people" could find renewal. As a nature writer and the Sierra Club's founding president, he argued eloquently for preservation, as when...
In other business last night, the council passed bills urging the administration to take action on sexual violence and environmental preservation.