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I was lucky enough to hear him speak while I was in college. It's my understanding that he spoke there more than a few times (I could be wrong), but I only saw him the once, during my freshman year.
Beloit College tends to have a fairly progressive student body and conservation was something that most of us just took as granted. Most of us just took things like recycling and reducing our footprint on the Earth as part of the way we lived. It is, I suppose, a given that someone like Nelson would speak there.
Still, it never fails to amaze me how many common sense things that we knew or did there are considered "questionable" away from the College and similar places (for instance... the fact that so many politicians still question the existence of global warming and our part in it just boggles my mind). We need more people like him to keep up the fight...
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