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A bibliography containing many articles and other researched documents relating to conservation, agriculture and environmentalism between 1990-1992.

One of the first reports during the day of a massive oil spill in the San Francisco Bay.

Environmental Activists Chuck Cook and Doris Gove are shown here with a "Save the Snail Darter" T-Shirt. This little endangered fish, found at the site of the Tellico dam in the midst of construction on the little Tennessee River, instigated the…

To protest American support for Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Syria and Israel, OPEC cut off oil exports to the United States. This caused gas prices to surge, long lines at gas stations, and the American economy to suffer.

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…

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…

Spearheaded by Howard Woodin, the Environmental Studies Major first becomes available in the 1965-1966 course catalog. Choosing an focus in human ecology, ecology, or biology, students could now receive one of the first Environmental Studies major…

By 1995, environmental studies at colleges had gained in popularity throughout the US, attributed to the growth of environmental awareness and activism.

As one of the initial colleges to create an official environmental studies program,…

This is a photo of the Earth taken from Apollo 17 when it was 45,000 km away from the Earth.

On Nov. 1, 1964, the Boston Sunday Globe published an article discussing a political shift in the state of Vermont towards the Democratic Party. Phil Hoff held office from 1963 to 1969 and was the first Democrat to be elected Governor of Vermont in…