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By the mid 1960s, the United States had demonstrated its capacity to transform environments on a large scale, anywhere it the world. Above ground nuclear weapons testing irradiated parts of the American West and the Pacific, sickening many over the…

An account of Middlebury's success in a region wide competition to conserve energy called Alternity Week.

The cover of the January 1990 issue of National Geographic magazine featured an oil-slicked bird - an image used repeatedly in popular media to appeal to the American public's empathy.To add to the emotional intensity of the Exxon Valdez disaster,…

Civil Rights leader Benjamin Chavis announces and describes in an Atlanta newspaper the upcoming First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in DC.

A letter from Stephen C. Trombulak to the Curriculum Committee, asking for the approval of the addition and substitution of various courses, as well as the addition of a new Literature and Writing focus with 6 required courses.

An article in The Campus in November 1979 contends that the '70s has seen less activism than the '60s, partly due to students having "a realistic appraisal of the issue" and judging political and environmental problems from an economic perspective as…

"The new voting strength of the suburbs" overpowers local Massachusetts conservation groups traditionally populated by farmers.

A review of the 1982 New York Times nonfiction bestseller "The Fate of the Earth" by Jonathan Schell. It was on the bestseller list for several weeks after publication.

Stephen C. Trombulak outlines current news and events regarding the Environmental Studies Program including the approval of the new course ES 401 Environmental Policy Formation; the arrival of Jack Schmidt in the Geology and Geography department; the…

Book review of Maxinne Shnall's 1981 publication, "Limits: A Search For New Values."