I was pleased today when Free Speech Radio News broadcast a story on the Vermont Yankee vote that I put together with assistance from Thomas Weiss. Nice to get more national exposure for the story, especially since Peter Shumlin is offering to consult with other states on how they, too, can take control of their aging reactors. The producer there was a joy to work with, too--she helped enrichen and otherwise improve the initial script that Thomas and I submitted.

FSRN is broadcast in central Vermont at 6 pm weekdays on WGDR, Plainfield, 91.1 FM, and WGDR can be streamed at wgdr.org.

In the end, women may not be the sole proprietors of humanity’s
connectedness and caring, but, needless to say, we surely have
something essential to offer the work of healing and survival in
today’s sad, desperate world...Chellis Glendinning is an advisor to the Second
Vermont Republic, a psychotherapist, and the author of five books that
explore the “personalness” of the political.  She lives in Cochabamba,
Bolivia.

In evaluating the resources comprising the “Commonwealth” of Vermont,
we made a disturbing discovery: Most of the valuable resources in
Vermont, including minerals, groundwater, surface water, hydro sites,
airwaves, etc., are owned by out-of state corporations.  Vermont is a
banana republic without the bananas...Gary Flomenhoft teaches energy technology and policy at the University of Vermont.

It is realistic to think that the generating capacity
of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (ENVY) can be economically,
environmentally and cost-effectively replaced in the near term by a
diversified strategy of conservation, market purchases, and local
renewable resources here...John (Sucosh) Norton is the Chief Operating Officer
for NRG Systems, a global leader in the manufacture of wind-
measurement equipment, based in Hinesburg.  John serves on the Climate
Change Oversight Committee for the State of Vermont and has worked in

Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan, launching local currencies,
organizing energy co-ops: these are all important parts of Transition
work....Carl Etnier is director of Peak Oil Awareness in
Montpelier. He hosts two radio shows and blogs on the subjects of Peak
Oil and relocalizing.

Off to Cali for a few days, a work-related trip that promises to be nasty, brutish, and short...‘The Greenneck’ lives and writes in the rusted-out shell of a one-ton Chevy pickup somewhere in Cabot.

Good design is design for change. Good design is structurally diverse
and not dependent on any single element for its overall success...Ben Falk grows food and fuel in the lower Mad River Valley, and develops post-petroleum human habitats with Whole Systems Design, LLC.

There’s a little town house in South Burlington where six tons of CO2
isn’t going into the atmosphere anymore. There are houses all over
Vermont that emit dozens of tons of carbon. The question that confronts
each of us is, where would we rather live? Will Lindner is a mandolin player, writer, and editor living in Barre. He serves as managing editor for Vermont Commons.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Ripton, Vermont - February 14, 2010 - Vermont State Senate independent candidate Robert Wagner has exposed the deep links between the offices of Bernie Sanders, Monsanto and the USDA.  A Monsanto insider, lobbyist & litigator, Tom Vilsack is the US Secretary of Agriculture and gave the keynote speech at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) convention yesterday.

Do you know who will deliver the keynote speech at NOFA, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont this weekend? A Monsanto man who was put in charge of the USDA. Yet another case of the fox entrusted to guard the hen house. Remember James Watt?

This is a slap-in-the-face to every small farmer in Vermont.

Today I learned that I have been censored from asking any questions in the staged Q&A session after the Monsanto keynote speech.