Discusses some of the processes involved in resource recovery (recycling) from municipal solid wastes. Provides specific examples of recovery of valuable resources, and suggests that the environmental consequences and technology related to solid waste treatment should be included in high school science courses. (JR)

The National Wildlife Federation's Fifth Environmental Quality (EQ) Index reports a continuing downward trend in the battle against environmental deterioration. All EQ indicators, except air, are lower than the previous year. Also discusses the political factors which tend to inhibit the progress of environmental and conservation efforts. (JR)

Discusses Commoner's ideas on the social value of the petrochemical industry and his suggestions for curtailment or elimination of its productive operation to produce a higher environmental quality for mankind at a relatively low loss in social benefit. (CC)

Outlines four alternative sets of regulations designed to prevent air pollution. These regulations are proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under a court order to prevent significant deterioration of the nation's air quality. (JR)

The contemporary need for technological solutions to human problems gives industrial educators an important job to do. (Editor)

Air pollution in urban areas is an expression of the poor management of our total environment, and its control goes far beyond the correction of individual sources. (Author)

Discussion of five hypotheses to account for the nature of student radicalism in Japan. (Author)

Briefly surveys recent trends and developments in sedimentology. Includes Clastic sedimentary petrology, petrology of argillaceous rocks, terrigenous depositional environments, and chemical sedimentology. (MA)

Presents an early childhood program evaluation procedure based on principles of ecological psychology in which the natural behavior of children in the program setting constitutes the criteria for determining program quality. (CM)

In arid New Mexico, decisions about water have always been a particularly strong source of tension between local communities and the bureaucracy. In one revent case, the community of Velarde had successfully blocked plans for a diversion dam and canal which would have brought new water into the Espanola valley, but would also have destroyed…

Describes major desert aquatic habitats, including descriptions of environmental conditions characteristic of these areas and the adaptations of desert aquatic organisms to them. (CS)