A 1995 piece featured in the Atlantic by Bill McKibben that discusses the environmental history of the United States and argues that considering the progress the US has experienced in terms of reforestation can give hope for future success in…
A student paper analyzing the criticism of the U.S. deployment of chemicals, including the herbicide Agent Orange, as a defoliant in the Vietnam War; includes analysis of the reaction and protest at Middlebury College.
Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in December of 1973. At first the list mainly only included charismatic megafauna, such the blue whale, tiger, and gray wolf, but in 1975 forty species of butterflies became the first insects to be…
Civil Rights leader Benjamin Chavis announces and describes in an Atlanta newspaper the upcoming First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in DC.