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A New York Times article reporting on the Dalai Lama's visit to Middlebury College in September 1990 for a symposium on religion and the environment.

Middlebury students protested the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire following the Three Mile Island explosions. One of the few activist events recorded in "The Campus" during the late '70s, it reveals a growing concern with nuclear energy…

"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.…

Descriptions and the process of Peter Oxford's life in a solar powered home in Vermont.

A long investigative article about Vermont Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, VT

Mount Equinox boasts Vermont's first commercial wind power project, originally established in 1989. Vermont then becomes one of the first five states to turn to wind power by 1991, but the power project faced resistance. Concerns over whether the…

USDA blog post on the USDA's activities with Beef farmers in Vermont

Two articles in the Middlebury Campus from Fall 1980 about food, both vegetarian and organic food, both at the college and at the local cooperative store.

Consideration of a hydropower deal underway in Vermont.

In June of 1993, the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated Vermont as one of America's most "endangered historic places," the first time an entire state made the list. However, produces questions about whether Vermont should make…