Browse Items (301 total)

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…

A short article detailing an anti war petition put forward by a number of student organizations, including EQ.

Middlebury students, faculty members and town residents form an Environmental Quality group to provide information on a local level about the pressing problem of environmental pollution. Emphasis on community education and pollution.

Environmentalists at Middlebury College initiate a study of food waste in dining halls.

EQ plans for Energy Working Group, Energy Fair on April 30, 1977, and Energy Studies Program at Middlebury.

"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.…

A short article about some of EQ's lobbying efforts, as well as mention of their conference. This page also contains an article about an environmental center in Ripton doing similar work to EQ.

Greenpeace; E.Q.'s "Ten Tuesdays" Continues; Kenny Alboum talks about ecology and toxic wastes.

Text of Edmund Muskie's commencement speech, in which he speaks of the troubles of pollution.

An account of Middlebury's success in a region wide competition to conserve energy called Alternity Week.