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The "Toxic Wastes and Race" report that the United Church of Christ published in 1987 included a map illustrating the metropolitan areas where the greatest number of African- American residents lived near toxic waste sites. For instance, 99.8 percent…

An advertisement from the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness in the March 1989 issue of National Geographic. Despite Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, two catastrophic, nuclear incidents that rattled American faith in this energy source, nuclear and…

Selected text and a table that appear in Kirkpatrick Sale's "Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision," a treatise on the bioregionalism subject. Although Peter Berg coined the term, Sale served as one of bioregionalism's leading theorists. In…

A poster created to commemorate the United Farm Workers' long-standing "Wrath of Grapes" boycott. Formally initiated in 1986, the campaign strove to publicize the plight of migrant grape laborers who, along with their children, were victims of…

Middlebury actively participated in relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. Members of the faculty, staff, and student community contributed by donating to charity organizations, hosting Tulane University students, and brainstormed further ways to…

This picture is from the EPA and is a part of the Clean Power Plan that aims fight climate change and protect public health.

A call to action for Obama's second term about what he could do to make the environment better.

In December 2009, the conference concluded that the world temperatures were increasing and that changes needed to be made in order to decrease that change.