Mike Roy
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Middlebury’s Mike Roy shares legislative priorities
Roy will spend the upcoming biennium shaping statewide health and environmental policy as a member of the Vermont Legislature.
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Middlebury energy panel regroups
Middlebury’s Energy Committee came close to dissolving after the town chose a natural gas-powered sludge dryer.
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Opinion Middlebury must commit to its environmental goals
“The selectboard should send its Infrastructure Committee back to the drawing board”
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Sessions tops field in 2026 campaign funds
Sessions is involved in a five-way race for two seats in the state Senate representing Addison County, Huntington, Rochester and Buel’s Gore.
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Climate Matters: Please don’t move the goalposts
Late January. By now most of us have already abandoned our New Year’s Resolutions to eat better, drink less, exercise more, be a better friend. Resolutions are hard…
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Climate Matters: Jared Duval, the Clean Heat Standard and Vermont’s transition away from fossil fuel
Mike Roy spoke with Jared Duval, an appointed member of the Vermont Climate Council who chairs the Council’s Science & Data subcommittee, about the wonky, but important, Clean…
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Climate Matters: Who knew? Doughnuts are actually good for us!
In her book “Doughnut Economics,” economist Kate Raworth proposes an alternative way to think about economics, and about how we organize our society.
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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: 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 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: 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: The self education of a would-be activist
Climate change used to be a topic I thought of irregularly and in abstract terms.
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Climate Matters: Learning to love ugly
This summer several tons of steel, glass and silicon will arrive near my side yard. This will be assembled, noisily, into a 30-acre power plant that will reduce…