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Kirk has been a reporter with Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison, Wis.; a writer and producer  at WBUR in Boston; a teacher and coach at Nativity Preparatory School in New Bedford, Mass.; a Fenway Park tour guide; and a tourist abroad. Kirk received his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and earned his M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. When he's not editing or reporting stories for VPR online and on-air, you can find him posting K's on the Wall at Fenway.

 

Around the Nation
12:22 am
Mon January 14, 2013

Better Bring Your Own: University Of Vermont Bans Bottled Water

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A student walks past a sculpture made of empty water bottles on the University of Vermont campus. UVM has banned the sale of bottled water.
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Originally published on Mon January 14, 2013 12:27 pm

When students at the University of Vermont resume classes on the snow-covered Burlington campus Monday, something will be missing: bottled water. UVM is the latest university to ban on-campus sales of bottled water.

At one of UVM's recently retrofitted refill stations, students fill up their reusable bottles with tap water. For many of the 14,000 students and staff on this campus, topping off their refillable bottles is an old habit.

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Around the Nation
1:18 pm
Sun September 23, 2012

Vt. Town Hires Livestock To Save Money, Go Green

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Charlotte, Vt., has a new, old-school strategy to keep cemetery grass cut: Let animals do the work.
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Originally published on Sun September 23, 2012 2:51 pm

Cities and towns facing tight budgets have often neglected their cemeteries, an oversight that has left many of them in disrepair with broken fencing, crumbling gravestones, overgrown grass and persistent weeds.

But this summer, the Vermont town of Charlotte implemented a new strategy to both save money and keep grass in the town's graveyards under control, and it's a decidedly traditional way of doing it: Let goats and sheep do the work.

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