Plumb: Time to walk the talk!
To the best of my recollection no Vermont leader has ever acknowledged that each one of us helped cause Irene by our carbon emissions over the years or that we have an individual moral responsibility for the sake of future generations to reduce our personal carbon emissions.
“Connect The Dots” with 350.org Saturday, May 5 in Waitsfield, Vermont!
For immediate release April 18, 2012 Contact 350.org Vermont david@350vt.org. Press inquiries rob@highermindmedia.com WAITSFIELD, VT— Citizens from all over Vermont will gather in Waitsfield on May 5 to “Connect the Dots” between extreme weather and climate change. In Waitsfield and at smaller events around the state on May 5, organizers will use this event to [...]
Schlossberg: ‘Vermont-scale’ energy needed
Every day, more and more Vermonters are raising their voices in unison to demand that our state Legislature stop greasing the skids for giant — often out-of-state — industrial energy corporations, which are effectively strangling our local, Vermont-scale energy economy.
In This State: A sugaring family’s gamble paid off sweetly
Because of the Branon’s efforts, and that of fellow sugar-makers in the area, Franklin County is considered the state’s top-producing county.
UVM study: With climate change, U.S. could face risk form Chagas disease
The parasite can trigger an acute phase of the disease that may have no symptoms or may include fever, swelling of one eye, swelling around the bite and general ill feelings. Then the disease often goes into remission, only to appear years later as much more serious illness, including life-threatening digestive and heart problems.
New hardiness zones show warming trend in Vermont
The new Vermont map shows an unmistakable warming trend, including the first appearance in the state of zone 5b in the extreme southeast and southwest of the state.
Scientists say earlier maple sugaring seasons part of climate change trend
Sugar maple trees now release their sap approximately 8.2 days earlier and stop producing usable sap 11.4 days earlier than they did 40 years ago.
Dunsmore: Climate change and the GOP
Rick Santorum said the claim that climate change is manmade is a “hoax … an absolute travesty of scientific research …”
Schlossberg: Biomass working group’s recommendations threaten Vermont’s public health, forests, climate, and clean energy economy
For immediate release Feb. 6, 2012 Contact Josh Schlossberg, Biomass Accountability Project Email: biomass.greenwash@gmail.com Phone: 802-223-5844 Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch Email: rsmolker@riseup.net Phone: 802-482-2848 Chris Matera, MA Forest Watch Email: christoforest@maforests.org Phone: 413-341-3878 Recommendations in the final report of the State of Vermont’s legislatively-appointed Biomass Energy Development Working Group (BEWG), released in late January, will result in increased toxic air pollution and the emission of [...]
McKibben: There’s no time to wait on climate change
Knowing the legislature was looking for action to take, McKibben told them what to do: “Make as rapid a transition as possible off of fossil fuel and on to something else.
