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Students protest Vermont's plan to utilize hydroelectric power from Hydro-Quebec.

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.

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…

In 1979, Iranian revolutionaries, led by religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, overthrew Western backed Shah Pahlavi. As a result, oil production in Iran dropped, triggering an economic shock known as the 1979 Energy Crisis.

Middlebury students were primarily concerned with issues of nuclear disarmament and the accompanying Cuban Missile Crisis, but also with individual impacts on the local environment. Disarmament sparked a shift in the minds of students towards a more…

An oil well owned by Mexican petroleum giant Pemex exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the largest oil spills in history. An amount of approximately 10,000-30,000 barrels of oil leaked each day from the wellhead over the span of 10 months.

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…