Vol. 2 No. 12 December 1972

Robert Allen Editorial Down with environmentalism

Andrew MacKillop

Edward Goldsmith

Roger Housden

Allan Chatelier and Robert Waller

Wolf Mankowitz

Feature articles

Low energy housing

A model of behaviour

Rubbish dump blues

Should we forbid smoking ?

Two fables

The Conservation Society and Labour's new programme

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Lawrence D. Hills

Columns Friends of the Earth

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Down to earth Life support gardening

Books

Feedback

Letters

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Classified advertisements 22

Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Deputy Editor: Robert Allen; Managing Editor: Michael Allaby;Associate editors: Peter Bunyard, John Davoll, Jimoh Omo Fadaka, Gerald Foley, Lawrence D. Hills, Brian Johnson, S. G. Lawrence, Jean Liedloff, Andrew MacKillop, Charles Maclean, John Papworth, Robert Waller. Administration: Joyce Robson. Editoral copy enquiries should be sent to The Editor, The Ecologist, "Catesby", Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, Cornwall. Telephone Wadebridge 2996/7. Advertising enquiries should be sent to 69 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone 01-948 0690. Published by Ecosystems Ltd., registered office 11 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, London W1M 0AH and distributed by the Hachette Group, Continental Publishers and Distributors Ltd., 4 Regent Place, London W1R 6BH; Telephone: 01-734 5259; Telegrams: Alibrairi London Wl; Telex 25114. Subscriptions to: The Ecologist, "Catesby", Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, Cornwall. Printed by The Garden City Press Ltd., Pixmore Avenue, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 US. © The Ecologist, December 1972