Local greenhouse gas emissions going up

Addison County is not making measurable progress in reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and now faces a tougher task in meeting local reduction goals by 2030 — according to a study published last month by the Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County, or CEAC. 

With a little advance planning, it is quite feasible to do the things you want to do in Vermont by public transit, and thus decrease your carbon footprint substantially compared to driving a fossil-fueled vehicle by yourself. 

This year, the last leaves fell on Nov. 8. Last year they fell on Nov. 3. In 2020 the leaves fell on Oct. 31.

Around three dozen Vermonters filled the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury last week to learn about how to engage in an often-overlooked part of fighting the climate crisis: listening to and learning from the groups most affect … (read more)

Regular Climate Matters columnist Mike Roy sat down with Ian Phair of Cornwall to learn more about his new solar power venture, Vermont Solar Fund LLC. 

On paper it looks like Vermont has done a lot to address climate change. 

The penultimate page of your Oct. 20 Election Guide is a full-page ad in support of seven Republican candidates. The page is indeed full—full of lies, falsehoods, untruths and misleading statements.

“It might be the very assumption you know something that blocks you from really knowing, but it might be that there is something unknowable mixed in.”

I am writing this dispatch from a southbound train, which left Middlebury at midday and is making its way — not too fast, not too slow — toward Penn Station in New York City. 

I am very grateful to Ollie Cultrara for their perspective on climate.

Marking a transformative investment in forests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program has awarded $30 million to the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) and its partners to help forest landowners implem … (read more)

I don’t know about you, but I hate talking about climate change.

There is no such thing as cold. That might sound idiotic coming from a Vermonter, but it’s true. In actuality there is only heat — and more or less of it.

So much of this situation rides on money, apathy, and our resistance to change.

In June the Middlebury selectboard approved a free right-of-way easement for Canadian-owned Vermont Gas Systems to build new fossil fuel infrastructure downtown on Mill Street.