Climate Matters
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Climate Matters: A conversation with Rep. Amy Sheldon on the Renewable Energy Standard
The Renewable Energy Standard, passed by the state Legislature in 2015, sets targets for the amount of renewable energy used in Vermont, states how much of that energy…
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Climate Matters: Planting helps the climate
The average first frost in Addison County typically comes in early October, but the current 10-day forecast for our area suggests our first frost will be delayed.
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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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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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Climate Matters: Food justice and climate resiliency
What do food justice and climate resiliency actually look like? Few can deny that one of Vermont’s best attributes is its commitment to locally grown food.
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Climate Matters: An ounce of prevention…
I don’t know if it’s just us Americans, or if it is a universal human trait, but we seem to prefer medical treatment over prevention.
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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National Forest are good, well-meaning professionals who care deeply about our forest, but that they are locked into outdated…
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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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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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Climate Matters: Turn off the gas, bring on the magnets
Gas stoves make people sick, why are we still using them?
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Climate Matters: Traveling Vermont and beyond by train and bus
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…
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Climate Matters: A late fall and ‘shifting baseline syndrome’
This year, the last leaves fell on Nov. 8. Last year they fell on Nov. 3. In 2020 the leaves fell on Oct. 31.