The interview focuses on the "back-to-the-land" lifestyle led by Scott and Helen Nearing, their intimate relationship, the books they coauthored, their difficulties with their families, and their social and political views as pacifists. Also includes a brief biography of Scott and Helen Nearing. (KS)

Reports on interviews conducted with Ukrainian teachers who were asked whether they and others they know are better, or worse, off since Ukrainian independence. Addresses inflation, private enterprise, delayed salaries, and new freedoms. Provides insights into the effects of the transition on people's lives and hopes for the future. (DSK)

This bulletin for teachers and supervisors tells how children of the United States are learning to conserve the Nation's reserves of soil, water, forests, fish, wildlife, minerals, and other natural resources. The purpose of this bulletin is to serve as a source of good practices to be dipped into as needed for ideas, not necessarily to be read…

In this video, former students and teachers recall their experiences in rural one-room schools in various regions. Just getting to school involved some hardship; anecdotes include experiences of walking, riding horses, driving snowmobiles or all-terrain vehicles, and canoeing to school. Students, teachers, and community members developed a…

The conservation excursion takes the child out of the schoolroom and into his natural and social environment and helps him to study it and to participate in the conservation of its natural and human resources. The conservation excursion, like any other school journey, is not intended as a substitute for books, magazines, pictures, or any other…