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On June 22, 1990, the Bush administration voted to register the Northern spotted owl as a threatened subspecies on the Endangered Species list. At the time, only 3,000 to 5,000 pairs were extant in the Pacific Northwest. Though a bitter debate raged…

On April 22, 1990 students celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day.

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

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.

The Environmental Quality Club encouraged the College to recycle.

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

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

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.

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…

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…