France’s New AutoRoute, Environmental News, Dolphin Safety and More Bits and Pieces

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The numbers are rising on people studying forestry.
The numbers are rising on people studying forestry.
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For $30, the American Forestry Service will let you plant a tree from the seeds of George Washington's Mount Vernon home.
For $30, the American Forestry Service will let you plant a tree from the seeds of George Washington's Mount Vernon home.
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For $30, the American Forestry Service will let you plant a tree from the seeds of George Washington's Mount Vernon home.
For $30, the American Forestry Service will let you plant a tree from the seeds of George Washington's Mount Vernon home.
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Clean up with some citrus!
Clean up with some citrus!

From the sustainable world of 1992, these Bits and Pieces of environmental news let us know what was happening in the sustainable world and how the times were changing.

What Would the Quaker Man Say?

A recent poll by the Wheat Foods Council in Englewood, Colo., found that 48 percent of Americans thought oatmeal was made out of wheat.

Mr. Goodwrench in Your Glovebox

Halfway to Boise, Idaho, you start to hear a grinding noise. Not the knock of a cold engine, not the steady whir of a loose fan belt — this sounds like a chain-link fence just hooked onto your bumper. Your car still runs but this can’t be good. You’re 58 miles from the next service station — if they even have someone who knows a tailpipe from a tobacco pipe — and no whiz under the hood yourself. What to do? Just pop in your “Roadside Repair and Car Care” cassette.

  • Published on Feb 1, 1992
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