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Ronald Reagan swept the 1980 presidential election, garnering 489 out of a total of 538 electoral college votes. His main opponent, the incumbent Jimmy Carter, was accused of hurting American economic interests while carrying a weak foreign policy

An article in The Campus in November 1979 contends that the '70s has seen less activism than the '60s, partly due to students having "a realistic appraisal of the issue" and judging political and environmental problems from an economic perspective as…

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…

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…

An Editorial in The Campus describes the conservation sentiment that exists on campus. It points out concerns with man's sustainability practices and the future of economic growth.

On July 28, 1986, the Middlebury College Board of Trustees voted to divest from American companies with holdings in South Africa.

For the first time, ES offices were centralized in the Farrell House. A part-time secretary and an upstairs seminar/resource room was added.

The Environmental Quality Club encouraged the College to recycle.

The establishment of ASLE is emblematic of the trend in the years in which it was founded: the growing relevance of ES to a number of pre-existing academic fields.

Middlebury College implemented a new recycling program to help reduce the problem of limited landfill space.