Sustainability
Recently I was taking off from Rutland Airport. As you know, Vermont's taxes against the middle class force many middle class Vermonters to seek work elsewhere, or just plain leave. It had been foggy before dawn, but the day dawned clear and bright. About to take off, clearance from Air Traffic Control was abruptly revoked... they said that Rutland Airport was fogged in! So, for an hour, I just sat there with engines wasting fuel, polluting, polluting... because of some incompetent weather broadcast.
In the old days we had Flight...
Progress. Got some excellent help from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund after taking their course on Community Rights Organizing: the CELDF helped me with a Town Ordinance against Smart Meters, which acts on a local level to prevent the corporate-controlled Legislature in Montpelier from shoving smart meters down the throats of residents. Here's the plain English version,...
University of Vermont Alum Bill Oetjen of Burlington expresses his outrage at UVMs Davis Center on Friday
"Right now, UVM is in a race to the bottom. They are out of line with students, they are out of line with students, staff, faculty, and maintenence workers interests" said a student of UVM at during a press conference at the Davis Center on Friday. Drawing a crowd of fellow protestors as well as others who watched from various windows, staircases, and...
After months of wrestling with the County Building Department about permits and codes, excruciating financial gymnastics and down and dirty back-breaking spadework, we finally got our solar installation up. It’s a massive 3 kw (stc) photovoltaic pole mount.
We feel like we created the best of two worlds, too, since we live way back in the woods while, at the same time, are generating a lot of electricity. We inscribed a Sun Mantra, OM Suryaya Namaha, around the base of the installation, honoring the Sun as the principal of light, life and love. In Vedic Philosophy, the Sun represents the soul—the causal...
I started hitchhiking in junior high, on those mornings when I missed the last city bus to school and my baritone horn made bicycling a difficult option. Since then, I've hitched short and long distances in the US and Europe, met all types, and arrived at all sorts of destinations.
I was glad to see Leath Tonino's description of a five-day hitchhiking trip around Vermont in Seven Days. I've never hitched without a destination in mind, as he did, but some of my most magical experiences have come from unexpected intermediate destinations...
Vermonters gather at the State Capitol to remind their legislature of it's duties to work the well-being and Human Rights of all Vermonters
MONTPELIER- Yesterday marked the beginning of Vermont's 2012 Legislative Session. In addition the usual and expected activities going on in the chambers the State Reprentatives and Senate, this year's opening day witnessed a remarkable number of consituents as they journeyed through single digit temperatures to make their voice heard in the Capitol...
This is one of a series of short films about Permaculture designers in the Northeast By TerraVisus. In this film, Ben Falk explains how Whole Systems Design established their diversified Agroforestry systems which include storm-water detention basins, ponds, swales and rice paddies, silvopasture systems and intensive rotational grazing. These systems work together to restore the ecology and...yield a useful product."
(Hat Tip to http://vermont4evolution....
Here's where the left/right political lines evaporate into meaninglessness, and we are forced to realize that there are only two political options: Local control and self-government, or central-state-government control and fascism. Centralist or decentralist. Those are the only real political paradigms we have. Everything else is a fictional choice.
99% of Democrats and Republicans are Centralists who want to eliminate all of our rights to self-government and control everything from distant corporatist bureaucracies.
Many sustainability activists and progressives like Richard Heinberg and Mike Ruppert have realized that decentralization is the only path to sustainability and...
By Mike Krauss of the Public Banking Institute as posted in PhillyBurbs (images added by me)
The American people have been asleep. That’s over.
The people are wakening and engaging in an expanding discussion about the present circumstances and future prospects of our nation.
The discussion began with the tea party patriots. But their protest at the injustice of the Wall Street bail out was turned to a...
The “Food Landscape” of the Social, Political and Economic World is changing fast. Trying to keep up on all that is happening is a challenge.
Introducing my new e-News Paper The Food Watch Daily. It is an automatically generated news paper from selected RSS feeds and Twitter accounts covering food; issues, regulation, legislation and solutions.
The paper is released every day at 10 am Eastern Standard time. After it is released I will be hand selecting articles and videos to publish as well as edit the overall content, when my time allows...
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