climate change
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Letter to the editor: We must take action now against climate change
Vermont’s contribution to easing the climate crisis may be tiny. But acting collaboratively with other states and countries can produce positive results.
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Climate Matters: Climate activism in the toilet
What is the carbon footprint of human defecation? This oddball question comes to me as I continue this journey of exploring what I as an individual and what…
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Climate Matters: A carbon bomb in our Green Mountain National Forest?
I believe that the staff at the Green Mountain National Forest are good, well-meaning professionals who care deeply about our forest, but that they are locked into outdated…
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Letter to the editor: Time is now for action on Affordable Heating Act
I read with dismay in the most recent edition of the Independent that the Affordable Heating Act, S.5, has been put on hold, and will become another study…
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Letter to the editor: A look at migrant workers through a climate prism
As to “playing a vital role in the health of the state’s agricultural industry” let’s put sympathy momentarily aside and have a cold, hard look at an underlying…
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Letter to the editor: Our schools need to be part of the climate solution
All three of our school districts in Addison County, and the Hannaford Career Center, have many substantial buildings that need heat (and air conditioning) and are currently major…
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Vt. Senate modifying Affordable Heat Act to make it a study
Faced with widespread concerns about potential costs to Vermonters, authors of the proposed Affordable Heat Act have decided to pump the brakes on the sweeping bill.
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Climate Matters: To Florida and back in our EV!
A well-known saying on bicycle touring trips is, “Drink before you’re thirsty, eat before you’re hungry, and shift before you have to.”
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Ways of Seeing: Time for divorce from fossil fuels
It’s not that Mr. Fossil Fuels hasn’t provided me with a comfortable and delightful life; he has.
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Letter to the editor: USFS logging proposal would have negative impacts
I wish to comment on the informative op ed by Howard Jennings on Feb. 16th, 2023 about the effort to sequester carbon in old and mature forests in…
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Matthew Dickerson: Of long skating rinks and big snakes
The same climate change that is dramatically shortening the season for outdoor skating across the north — including places like the Rideau Canal Skateway — is also opening…
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Climate Matters: Our young people’s future, our forests, our changing climate
I have examined the findings of the 2022 report from the International Panel on Climate Change and other authoritative research, and what I have found is downright terrifying…
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Climate Matters: Try the 30-Day Low Carbon Diet and save
According to the Low Carbon Diet Program, a group of five- to eight households agree to meet consistently once a week over a month for an hour to…
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Climate Matters: Too late for business as usual
Do you remember when Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” came out? I saw it in a crowded movie theater almost 20 years ago. Recently I wondered how…
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Climate Matters: The Knoll is a place of nourishment and wellbeing
Founded by students in 2003, the Knoll, Middlebury College’s educational garden, has become a vitally important center of climate justice, resiliency, education and community nourishment.
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Letter to the editor: Thinking about climate change
If you believe in climate change as I do, I refer you to the New Yorker publication “The Fragile Earth.”