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The First Earth Day in Middlebury - Recap
'Black-out' Protests Atom Power Plant Construction in Vernon, VT: The protestors sponsored a candle-light rally in the Johnson Building, the College itself did not officially cooperate and many lights remained on. Some students who did not agree with…
Curriculum Committee Raises Policy Issues
Curriculum Committee approved new course entitled "Current American Problems" that called for interdisciplinary, primarily student-taught analysis of selected social problems in contemporary America.Course called for the student teachers to be…
Middlebury Prepares for the first Green-Up Day (Earth Day) - April 1970
Ecology Activists Plan Protest at Power Plant
Davis, Hayes To Speak At Environmental Teach In
Earth Day Schedule: The Earth Day program will begin at 9:30 Wednesday morning in Mead Chapel and will continue until late evening. Population Control and…
Davis, Hayes To Speak At Environmental Teach In
Earth Day Schedule: The Earth Day program will begin at 9:30 Wednesday morning in Mead Chapel and will continue until late evening. Population Control and…
Garrett Hardin - The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
Hardin achieved a major impact within the economic, science and environmental communities with his essay "The Tragedy of the Commons," delivered to the Pacific Division of the American Association for the if there was a common field for people to…
Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)
The Population Bomb was an influential book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (uncredited), in 1968. Since it's publication and initial popularity, the book has drawn criticism for its alarmist tone,…
Freedom to Breed: Social Consequences of Population Control, Ehrlich Outlines Future on the Spaceship Earth
excerpt from "Population, Resources, Environment" by Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Professor Van Vleck discusses Population Control, food production, power production, and reproduction in his review of Paul and Anne Ehrlich's 1970 book "Population,…
Atomic Energy Commission Staffer Answers Opponents of Nuclear Power
Parent of a Middlebury Student and Atomic Energy Commission staffer writes in to Campus Editors dispelling rumors and offers "factual information" regarding nuclear power.
Love Canal
In the late 1970's it was revealed that Hooker Chemical Company had been using Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY to bury 22,000 tons of toxic waste. The site was sold by Hooker for residential construction, but after a while, heavy rains released the…
Environmental Studies appears in the Middlebury course catalog
The newly approved Environmental Studies program first appears the 1965-1966 Middlebury course catalog, made available to students in the fall of 1965.
