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In an Op-Ed, a student urges Middlebury students to take action and do the necessary steps to help conserve and help the planet. (Recycle, turn off the lights, etc.)

This source describes a series of panels where discussions were held about the environment

An account of what the school's different organizations and clubs, such as the Mountain Club and EQ, are doing to make Earth Day popular on campus

MIdd campus article on environmental features of new science building constructed 1996-1999

On June 22, 1990, the Bush administration voted to register the Northern spotted owl as a threatened subspecies on the Endangered Species list. At the time, only 3,000 to 5,000 pairs were extant in the Pacific Northwest. Though a bitter debate raged…

NASA scientist James Hansen's 1988 testimony to Congress carried grave warnings about the state of the planet in the future. Hansen cited numerous climate statistics and projections in his defense. Perhaps the most urgent indication of global warming…

Excerpt from "Our Common Future":

When the Brundtland Commission released a report titled "Our Common Future" in 1987, it coined the concept of "sustainable development." The Commission envisioned sustainability as the solution to simultaneous…

A graphic that depicts the location and cause of Yellowstone fires in 1988. The first fire began June 14, and a succession of conflagrations followed over the course of the summer. Overall, there were 9 human-caused blazes and 42 fires sparked by…