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Student research paper on student ideas and concerns about nuclear weapons and energy at Middlebury College in the 1960s and 1970s

"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,…

An article about the upcoming energy conference which EQ will help organize, as well as EQ's work with the school store to switch out mainstream detergents with more environmentally friendly varieties.

Articles on the demand for recycling reform, as well as progress on said reform.

Students opinions of the United States involvement in the Gulf War

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.

A student paper analyzing the criticism of the U.S. deployment of chemicals, including the herbicide Agent Orange, as a defoliant in the Vietnam War; includes analysis of the reaction and protest at Middlebury College.

The Middlebury Campus was criticizied for their insufficient Earth Week coverage in 1994

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…