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This article reviews five different books about environmental economics that look at how the drive to produce more economically has ecological consequences by creating pollution.

This is a book review of a number of books evaluating population growth, but focuses particularly on "The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind" by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen…

Review of the Book The Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William W. Behrens III

An article reporting on new federal regulations on disposal of hazardous chemicals.

A description of a Winter Term course on Social Class and the Environment from the 2009 Winter Term Catalog from Middlebury College.

This article discusses urban sprawl in San Francisco, and laments the vanishing green space in the U.S. and the resulting lack of respect that contemporary Americans have for the natural world and the environment.

Ten newspaper articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, March-April 1990, covering events and ideas and figures surrounding Earth Day 1990.

Among several discussions of the possibility of nuclear war in the Middlebury Campus from 1985, two article stood out. One was a full page discussion of the ridiculousness of nuclear war and importance of joining the national and international…

A political cartoon satirizing Obama's energy plan as being incompatible with the reality of the country's energy needs and dependencies.