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Environmental concerns becoming a relative theme in this era

The United States military used the defoliant known as Agent Orange to destroy large swathes of Vietnam's jungle, depriving the Vietcong of cover, but both fighters and non-combatants of food. The chemical caused chronic illnesses for both the…

Student Terry Bouricius presented a resolution at the Student Forum on January 12, 1975 that proposed the school should offer a vegetarian dish in addition to a meat dish at all meals. He thought this would help students become more aware of the…

The United States Forest Service is criticized by conservationists and timber industry professionals alike for its mismanagement of the national forests.

Environmentalists at Middlebury College initiate a study of food waste in dining halls.

A description of a winter term course in Winter 2010, on the subject of Food Justice.

This article appears in the Middlebury Campus in November 1983 and details the goal of the Student Forum Food Committee: to make students aware of the amount of food they are wasting. The committee, which consists of both students and dining hall…

A wildland firefighting crew uses a fire-retardant foam to extinguish flames on a YCC dormitory at Mammoth Hot Springs. Yellowstone's fire policy came under heavy criticism during the summer of 1988, as firefighters adopted a "let it burn" strategy…

Book review of "Beyond the Wasteland: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline" by Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon and Thomas E. Weisskopf.

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…