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The attempt to build a hydroelectric plant was put on hold while they waited for federal approval of the project. Jim Maddocks, a spokesperson for Central Vermont Public Services explained that they wanted the plant in order to provide alternative…

The article describes a talk by Ian McHarg that the club Environmental Quality sponsored. McHarg wrote the book "Design with Nature" that criticizes urban development and identifies six threats to the environment.

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

In 1992, Vermont astronomers convince state officials to begin drafting new outdoor-lighting regulations. The decision by local ski slopes to install new floodlights creates issues in regards to light pollution and visibility of the night sky.…

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…

This article in the Middlebury Campus focusses on the proposed boycott on Japanese goods to promote whale conservation. The Japanese ignored the conservation efforts of the United Nations Conference on the Environment which unanimously called for a…

Middlebury Campus article regarding the first mention of the newly-formed Environmental Studies Major.

In 1995, as part of making a stand in the growing environmental issue of logging on public land, a Vermont judge blocked the US Forest Service from clearing 300 acres. This is was recorded as the first instance of a federal court halting forest…

Campus article about Middlebury students in D.C. to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Student research paper on Middlebury College during the energy crisis of the late 1970s