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This article discusses urban sprawl in San Francisco, and laments the vanishing green space in the U.S. and the resulting lack of respect that contemporary Americans have for the natural world and the environment.

A competition was held by the Environmental Council to educate the college community and conserve energy.

Although the Yellowstone fires devastated the park ecosystem, the drastic disturbance was actually beneficial in other ways. The fire thinned the canopy and thereby allowed light to reach shrubs, saplings, and grasses. Furthermore, ash enriched the…

To NYT articles about college student concerns regarding pollution and ecology, reported mostly from California, but also around the nation.

A student newspaper article on the environmental problems related to Styrofoam cups and other plastic goods

An article in the Middlebury Campus regarding the college's plan to eliminate the Geography Department and major at the college.

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…

A NY Times article on industrial waste

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,…