climate change
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Letter to the editor: Imagine a Field Days of the future — the near future
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?
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Local farmers are grappling with changing climate
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…
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Climate Matters: What can I do about climate change?
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…
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Letter to the editor: There’s more to the carbon story
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…
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Editorial: Climate, Biden, Trump and the hate today’s politics incites
When the powers you’ve trusted for so long go sour, it’s hard to believe in anything.
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Letter to the editor: Recent weather events underscore global warming
Are we ready to finally treat the Climate Crisis as the existential emergency it really is?
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Letter to the editor: Electric buses face hurdle
If electric powered school busses are to be effective, then all electricity used to charge the batteries must be solely from non-polluting sources.
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Locals push for county-wide electric school bus fleet
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…
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Local committees bring Green Energy Fair to Vergennes
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…
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Letter to the editor: Every action is important in fighting climate crisis
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…
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Ways of Seeing: Seeing is (and is not) believing
By the mid-afternoon of June 7th, Manhattan was shrouded in a thick, toxic, orange haze of wildfire-induced particulate matter.
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Letter to the editor: Are Vermont’s environmental efforts worth it?
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.
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Letter to the editor: Vt. public utilities need to up their clean energy game
The Vermont Public Utilities Commission could do so much more to advance clean energy and help the planet recover in time for our grandchildren to lead healthy lives.
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Efforts to decarbonize local homes face hurdles
Addison County contractors helping residents decarbonize their homes face a few obstacles in providing those services, notably a lack of available, trained workers and challenges in accessing “greener”…
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Climate Matters: We can see clearly now
In Vermont, the scent of wood smoke on a late fall afternoon is an iconic smell. It’s not like that here today, in the first week of June…
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Students offer Middlebury CO2 road map
A Middlebury College student group has unveiled a proposed road map for the town of Middlebury’s quest to cut its emission of carbon dioxide cause by municipal operations…