A separate office dealing with the Foundation's program in resources and the environment was established this year. The program was transferred from the National Affairs Division, where it had been located since it began in 1966. The Foundation's concern for the environment, however, dates to the early 1950s, when it established a major new independent research organization, Resources for the Future. Since then the Foundation has supported efforts to apply the skills of ecologists, other scientists, lawyers, and planners to environmental problems and has helped citizen action groups carry out programs concerned with environmental issues and the conservation of resources.

In recent years, as the public has become more aware of environmental problems, citizen action and public information programs have become more widespread. Thus, the Foundation's limited resources are increasingly directed toward more intensive efforts (including professional training and research) to comprehend and deal with the complex policy issues underlying environmental problems in the United States and abroad. (See "Futurity and the Resource-Environment Challenge," page 23.)

ENERGY POLICY PROJECT

In response to the critical need for a broader understanding of the factors contributing to this country's energy problems, the Foundation established an Energy Policy Project in 1972, with a staff of lawyers, economists, engineers, and scientists. The staff, located in Washington, D.C., is assisted by a twenty-one member advisory board composed of public officials, energy industry executives, academic leaders, and representatives of the consumer and environmental movements. A total of $4 million has been committed for research and analysis by the staff and by academic and other research centers commissioned to study a wide range of energy issues. Through these studies the project aims to provide the factual and analytical bases for forming a coherent national energy policy.

The project will publish a series of fifteen to twenty research reports during the first half of 1974. The final report—a book summarizing the findings of the project and setting forth energy policy alternatives—will be published in late 1974.

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Support for six programs in regional environmental management (REM) aims to help work out rational methods of guiding community development that take into account environmental as well as economic and social considerations. REM projects in San Diego County and Hawaii received supplementary assistance this year.

The San Diego grant is supporting a joint city-county task force that is developing a model plan for assessing the economic impact of private development proposals in the region. It will complement an earlier model that assesses the environmental impact. In Hawaii, a community council helps balance the technical work of the Hawaii Environmental Simulation Laboratory with political, social, and economic factors. The council puts the laboratory's data and analyses in nontechnical language for use by public decision-makers.

A Seattle citizens' task force received funds for films, meetings, and workshops to foster community participation in planning a comprehensive environmental program for the metropolitan Seattle region. The program aims to help citizens unravel the complexities of the planning process, understand the long-range consequences of various planning choices, and play a role in final decisions.

INTERNATIONAL

The Foundation provided support to several nongovernmental organizations working with the United Nations Environment Program, which was established as a result of the UN's Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.

Recipients included the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. IUCN will draw upon experts from eighty-two nations to organize