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Newspaper account of recent graduate taking campus recycling coordinator position

A series of New York Times articles from December 1984 covering the Bhopal gas disaster and questions about corporations, toxic gas, communities, technology, and first/third world legal and economic relationships.

This is a letter to the editor by Paul Ehrlich, published in the New York Times, in response to Barry Commoner's book "The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology." The newspaper also publishes Commoner's response to Ehrlich.

Environmental Quality, a student group at Middlebury College, and how it changed over time.

Environmental Quality, a student group at Middlebury College, and how it changed over time.

Claire Ayer returns to school, and while balancing being a student and a mother, she also refuses to let the ailing environment become a problem on campus

Two accounts from the Chicago Tribune and the NY Times about further discoveries of toxic waste sites.

A student history paper concerning energy conservation measures at Middlebury College in the 1970s and beyond.

Farm workers in locations like California had long experienced poor living conditions, low wages, and bigoted treatment. In the late 1980s, the UFW took steps to boost the status of field workers in the U.S. - both through boycott campaigns (the…