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This column reports on the fact that Vermont passed a bottle bill that outlaws throwing away soda and beer bottles and a nuclear power bill that requires legislative approval for any new nuclear facilities in the state.

In February of 1979, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a subcommittee meeting in Middlebury, Vermont to receive proposals on Rare II Wilderness sites across the United States. After three days of proposals and hearings, the…

An argument written by Associate Professor of Geography J. Rowland Illick advocating for unilateral disarmament as a first step towards world peace.

Middlebury Campus article detailing speakers for the 1961 Middlebury Conference. The general conference topic was "Mass Media: Role and Responsibility," and specific arguments were made regarding how "[t]he power to mold the future of the Republic…

The first section of interstate highway reached southern Vermont in 1958. By the early sixties, this first section of I-89 had been built between Montpelier and Burlington. Vermont communities, previously isolated, were now within a day's drive of…

Middlebury Campus covers talk by Norman Thomas regarding nuclear testing.

Middlebury College Newsletter informing of a recent novel by alumni Peter S. Jennison concerning the consequences of a fictional town in Vermont installing a prototype nuclear reactor.

An in-depth look at the polluting of Otter Creek done by local industry.

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

"Second Lady of Conservation" Dellorice Olson, treasurer of the Izaak Walton League of America (a powerful conservation organization with over 51,000 members) chooses to continue the League's anti-pollution drive by focusing on the Charles River.…