Letter to the editor: Students ask for electric buses

As members of the Middlebury Union High School cross country and Nordic ski teams, we spend a lot of our time on school buses traveling to and from competitions all over the state.

There is a direct connection between climate change and the massive rainstorms that have disrupted Vermont life this summer. 

Mostly I agree with Chris Olsen on efforts to battle climate change, but I must explain the CEAC report.

As the climate warms and the rains continue (and the mud gets worse), can we start working toward making Field Days more responsive to climate change?

In the face of a year marked by damaging floods and a devastating spring frost, farmers in Addison County and beyond are exploring ways to protect their crops during future growing seasons.

If you Google “What can I do about climate change,” you will get millions of hits, with plentiful lists and sets of recommendations. The focus most often is on individual rather than collective action. 

I am writing to request clarification to a sentence in the article written by Marin Howell and published on June 22, 2023, under the headline “Efforts to decarbonize local homes faces hurdles.”

When the powers you’ve trusted for so long go sour, it’s hard to believe in anything. 

Are we ready to finally treat the Climate Crisis as the existential emergency it really is?

If electric powered school busses are to be effective, then all electricity used to charge the batteries must be solely from non-polluting sources.

Proponents of the “Electric School Bus Project” say the switch would reap cost savings and health benefits for county residents, as well as help meet local and state goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

While the warm summer sun is shining and thoughts of solar energy are not far from many people’s minds, Vergennes this Saturday will be the site of an expo designed to educate people about ways to power our modern lifestyle without polluting the planet.

I would like to comment on the letter published in your June 29th edition that asks the pertinent question about why Vermonters are being burdened with efforts to fight climate change when the “red” states are doing nothing about it. 

By the mid-afternoon of June 7th, Manhattan was shrouded in a thick, toxic, orange haze of wildfire-induced particulate matter.

Last March my wife and I spent two weeks way down south. One week was on the Florida coast just north of Miami, the second on coastal Georgia.