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Syllabus for Middlebury course Visions of Nature taught in Fall of 1994 by Prof. Alison Byerly

A description of a winter term course in Winter 2010, on the subject of Food Justice, taught by students and advised by Prof. John Elder in Winter 2010.

Speech by David Brower at Middlebury College

By 1995, environmental studies at colleges had gained in popularity throughout the US, attributed to the growth of environmental awareness and activism. As one of the initial colleges to create an official environmental studies program, Middlebury is…

"Individual and group response to the ecological crisis were the emphasis of the Environmental Action Conference held here last weekend. Dr. Howard E. Woodin and Dr. Ralph D. Nelson gave the opening addresses to approximately two hundred businessmen,…

One news article and one editorial explaining and supporting a new curriculum for Env. Studies at Middlebury designed to combine studies in geography, northern studies, and environmental studies.

Title and excerpt from a book by future Middlebury professor, Bill McKibben

A 1995 piece featured in the Atlantic by Bill McKibben that discusses the environmental history of the United States and argues that considering the progress the US has experienced in terms of reforestation can give hope for future success in…

Bob Churchill's response to S. C. Trombulak's curriculum proposal. The letter includes Churchill's thoughts on main problems of the program in the past, and his support for Trombulak's proposal.

A student paper in HIST 222, Spring 2015, about Howard Woodin, the Midd biology professor who founded and ran the ES program (founded 1965)