Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere

CSWD Board votes on Compost Assistance package

CSWD OFFICIALS GREEN-LIGHT ASSISTANCE PACKAGE FOR GARDENERS IMPACTED BY HERBICIDES IN COMPOST

Williston – The Chittenden Solid Waste District Board of Commissioners, at a July 25, 2012 special meeting, voted in support of a compost customer assistance package. Pending final legal review, assistance will be made available to gardeners who have been affected by […]

Call it the greening of Wall Street

Banks Look to Burnish Their Images by Backing Green Technology Firms

Repost from New York Times 06112012

In the wake of a $30 billion commitment to new environmental investments by Wells Fargo in April and a $40 billion promise from Goldman Sachs this month, Bank of America will announce a 10-year, $50 billion initiative of […]

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION EVENTS

SOLID WASTE ALLIANCE COMMUNITIES

SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012 – 1:00-3:30 p.m. SHREWSBURY TRANSFER STATION, 103 Mountain Road, Shrewsbury

FREE SERVICE TO: Residents of the Solid Waste Alliance Communities (SWAC) Towns ONLY – Benson, Chittenden, Fair Haven, Middletown Springs, Pawlet, Rutland Town, Shrewsbury, Sudbury, Tinmouth, and West Haven. As a resident of […]

RAY BREWSTER SUSTAINABILITY AT HOME

April 2012

MY HOUSEHOLD…

1. – Heats the home almost entirely with cordwood

in a modern, EPA-rated, clean-burning catalytic woodstove and sometimes “cooks on wood”

2. – Checks the house for air-tightness; makes house-shell energy improvements

3. – Is illuminated primarily with L.E.D.s (light-emitting diode) lights, about 6X more efficient than incandescent bulbs ; the […]

Climate Summer Comes to Vermont

We’re introducing something new in Vermont and we want YOU to be involved! Better Future Project and 350VT are partnering through Climate Summer Vermont to bring an exciting and successful youth education and movement building program to our state starting this summer.

Climate Summer is a summer program for student 18 to 25 years old. […]

VSECU Makes “Going Solar” Ez, Affordable

By Lynette D. Kemp, VSECU Communications Coordinator

Kim and Bill Laidlaw and their children Liam, Lucy and Jack

Since 1947, Vermont State Employees Credit Union has worked with Vermonters to improve the quality of their lives. About three years ago, regulators allowed VSECU to open our membership to everyone who lives or works […]

Pocket Neighborhoods

Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World

May 21, 2012, 1:30p – 4:30p, Grappone Conference Center, Concord, NH by Ross Chapin, FAIA

Objective 1: Participants will learn key planning and design principles for creating sucessful Pocket Neighborhoods by studying historic precedents and contemporary examples.

Objective 2: Participants will identify opportunities to leverage Pocket […]

VT Recognizes the First Ten Green Restaurants

Ten restaurants have been designated as “Green Restaurants In The Green Mountain State” in the Vermont Business Environmental Partnership (VBEP). Started in 2010, state program VBEP recognizes businesses for their environmental stewardship. Participating businesses go beyond following environmental regulations to also conserve resources and implement environmental best management practices.

Green businesses attract customers who seek […]

Solar Installers Offer Deals, Gaining Converts

Re-posted from New York Times 5/11/12

HOLMDEL, N.J. — Jay Nuzzi, a New Jersey state trooper, had put off installing solar panels on his home here for years, deterred by the $70,000 it could cost. Then on a trip to Home Depot, he stumbled across a booth for Roof Diagnostics, which offered him a solar […]

The Night the Band Went Green

The play is all about a washed up rock band whose bus breaks down in an enchanted forest. Throughout the night they are visited by some pretty strange characters; for instance…giant water bottles, fish, bicycles, a mini refrigerator, an air conditioner, a styrofoam container, some french fries, a chicken nugget, some lamps, an SUV, several […]