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This is a term paper exploring Professor Woodin's influence during his 32-year teaching career at Middlebury College, specifically the creation of the Environmental Studies Program.

This article describes the Winter Term class taught by John Elder and Reuben Rainey titled "Environmental Ethics." The class explored the question "explored question “What principles of conduct should guide mankind when he interacts with nature?"

A MIddlebury College Magazine article about the ES Program at Middlebury College and its growth and success in the early 1990s.

An article including reflections by a student and a professor on a 1974 Winter Term course conducted at High Pond.

Jay Parini, a Middlebury College professor of English and Creative Writing, writes about his experience and observation of the growing interest in environmental studies.

Students weigh in on the growing size and overcrowding of the environmental studies class

Bill McKibben gave a talk at the Middlebury Congregational Church comparing current environmental events to Biblical occurrences, arguing that humans have caused a "decreation" of God's work. He explained some of the science of environmental crisis…

A newspaper report on Prof. Elder's 1996 Inaugural Lecture as Stewart Professor in English Department

A bar graph showing the number of Environmental Studies majors between 1969 and 1997.

Recommendations for the Environmental Studies Program regarding the number of faculty, location of program offices, and career and internship opportunities for majors.