Climate Matters
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Climate Matters: A case for on-site solar
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.
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Climate Matters: Vermont’s climate politics and the midterms
On paper it looks like Vermont has done a lot to address climate change.
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Climate Matters: The shifting shoreline of what we think we know
“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.”
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Climate Matters: A search for some delight in a difficult century
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…
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Climate Matters: We should be feeling our feelings
I don’t know about you, but I hate talking about climate change.
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Climate Matters: Vermonters must act today with tomorrow in mind
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.
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Climate Matters: Mowing becomes electric
I spoke with Taylor Rental’s Chris Bagley about his experience selling battery-powered landscape equipment, including chainsaws, string trimmers, leaf blowers, and all sorts of residential and commercial lawn-mowing…
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Climate Matters: Breathing new life into Middlebury
Could Middlebury bring the Vermont forest into its city center? Could it create a Green Lung, connecting say the Natural Foods Co-op, through the Village Green, along the…
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Climate Matters: Cutting back on mowing
As many Vermonters become more aware of the climate impacts of traditional grass mowing, at Cornwall Orchards Bed and Breakfast we’re exploring alternate approaches.
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Climate Matters: How to start an anti-carbon campaign
What can we learn from public health campaigns that will help us make progress on climate-change prevention?
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Climate Matters: Lessons from a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey
The honey bee is critical to the environment and our survival. Here are some facts about honey bees, drawn from two sources.
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Climate Matters: No justice without literacy
This Climate Matters column is brought to you by the letter L, the letter R, and the number 5. Five L’s guide my work and are inspired by…
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Climate Matters: Embracing incremental progress
Yes, I’m concerned about climate change. Yet I remain optimistic about the future, a future we in Vermont have some control over.
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Climate Matters: Climb the climate mountain
Two years ago, scientists were telling us that we needed to reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 and to zero by 2050.
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Climate Matters: What do you call a house on fire?
Solastalgia means, “The distress caused by environmental change.”
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Climate Matters: McKibben says transitions unleash creativity
16th in a series Most of the time I’m writing about vested interest as the key obstacle to making the energy transition. And it is — without the…