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POULTNEY, VT. — For sale: Lightly used college campus complete with Greek revival buildings and a farm, sans livestock. In turnkey move-in condition with a biomass heating system and solar array for electric power. Price on the 155-acre property is negotiable. “It’s a beautiful campus. It’s in impeccable shape,” said Tony Blake, a Vermont real estate agent working with the Boston office of the Colliers International to sell the now-empty Green Mountain College. Citing declining enrollment and rising costs, Green Mountain officials in January said this would be the last year in operation. The school closed in May after its...

David R. Hall | - Green Mountain Daily www.greenmountaindaily.com/tag/david-r-hall/ Jun 15, 2016 ... Hall is the Utah-based engineer/developer and Mormon (member of the utopian community in Sharon (the birthplace of LDS founder Joseph Smith). Hall plans on plunking down New Vista and its 20,000 inhabitants in rural Vermont and other developments across the nation.

For a century, the executives of Coca-Cola Co. have done everything possible to put their famed cola "within arm's reach of desire," to the point that one chief executive frequently pondered an extra tap at the kitchen sink—with Coke flowing from it. The company's plan to team up with the maker of the Keurig single-serve coffee brewers to develop a do-it-yourself countertop Coke machine comes pretty close. The new cold drink machine won't look anything like SodaStream, the leading home soda maker, says Coke's new partner, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. It will have a similar design to Green Mountain's...

By Annie Gasparro Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) says it's seeing strong sales of its K-cup portion packs for Keurig single-serve coffee brewers, even though Keurig's parent company, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), has seen an unexpected deceleration of sales growth lately. Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz sent an e-mail to employees Thursday, reassuring them that "Starbucks K-Cups continue to see robust gains," and that "Starbucks' relationship with Green Mountain remains as strong as ever." The e-mail came as Green Mountain's shares tanked 48% Thursday after it reported its latest quarterly earnings. Green...

Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for...