“Dave & Mark write “Coppice Agroforestry”

this is a fragment of a post from the project update of   “Dave & Mark write “Coppice Agroforestry” follow their adventure as they collect the information for this legendary book! Mark’s next reflection… I awoke on Friday morning in a comfortable, unfamiliar bed. My British, turned-French host Brandon called up to me to let [...]

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Story + video: Budget hearing “puts human face” on proposals for cuts

VT Digger By Andrew Nemethy on February 24, 2011 The House Appropriations Committee wrapped up two days of hearings on the proposed budget for next year in sessions that took rapid-fire testimony in two-minute chunks on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. The legislative panel is charged with writing the state budget that must address a [...]

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“The Story of Citizens United” (video)

Issue #50 • February 25, 2011 (Citizens United news letter) Mark your calendars for March 1 On Tuesday, The Story of Stuff Project will release “The Story of Citizens United,” an eight-minute animated video that will explain clearly the issues around the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and why [...]

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Two Articles on Corporate Personhood in VT

Debating The Idea Of Corporations As People – VPR Monday, 02/21/11 A year ago, the United States Supreme Court handed down one of its most controversial decisions in recent years. In Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission the Court ruled that corporations are like people – that they have the right to free speech, and [...]

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2 Articles on VT Union Workers

* Story + video + photo gallery: Vermont unions rally in solidarity with Wisconsin workers By Anne Galloway on February 23, 2011 Hundreds gather in Montpelier in solidarity for Wisconsin workers. Photo by Josh Larkin.  Teachers, nurses, firefighters, state employees and electrical workers converged on the Statehouse lawn on Tuesday to send a message to [...]

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Vermont raw milk business estimated at $1 million in annual sales, up 25%

David E. Gumpert reports on the state of raw milk in Vermont, in his latest post on The Complete Patient blog: “It’s kind of amazing, when you think about it, that we’re still debating–as Milky Way and Ken Conrad were, following my previous post–whether milk comes through a cow’s udder sterile or having picked up [...]

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Source of VY tritium elusive

By JOSH STILTS /B. Reformer Staff       full article – http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_17456040 Wednesday February 23, 2011 BRATTLEBORO — During a conference call with Vermont Yankee staff last week regarding the ongoing groundwater contamination investigation at the plant, technicians said the source is still unknown. // Pressure tests and boroscope exams have been completed on two of five [...]

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VT Commons – Journal

there are many great articles in Vermont Commons Journal Check’em out! Jonathan Leavitt: Burlington Kisses Lockheed? Just Say No. (FEATURE) “These are conservative tactics for a radical strategy, and in that spirit we signed the Letter of Cooperation and we would sign others.” Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Bob Kiss. Robert Wagner: Vermont Food Sovereignty, And A [...]

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The RAW Milk Crime

Greetings from the Rural Vermont office! http://www.ruralvermont.org/ Thank you to all of you who have contacted us this week in support of our Raw Dairy Processing Workshops. We have heard from many of you regarding the “warning” we received from the Agency of Agriculture on February 10, 2011, leading to the postponement of our  classes. [...]

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3 States Challenge Federal Policy on Storing Nuclear Waste

By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: February 15, 2011 (NYT) WASHINGTON — The attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Vermont sued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday, challenging a new commission policy stating that nuclear waste can be safely stored at a nuclear power plant for 60 years after a reactor goes out of service…. [...]

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Non-violent “Criminals” Another Fiscal War

From the Drug Policy Alliance. Take simple action to let congress know you don’t want to continue “the War on Drugs”  program spending. Congress is working on a new federal budget. Right now we have a unique opportunity to cut the funding that helps keep the drug war alive at the local level.  (Link) the [...]

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Town selectboards near Vermont Yankee send letters voicing concerns

VT Digger (full article with letter) At the request of town residents, the selectboards of 13 Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts towns in close proximity to the Entergy Corporation’s Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, VT, have recently written to state and federal authorities expressing concerns about possible ways Vermont Yankee’s shutdown in 2012 may [...]

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The Key To Freedom

What is this key that is laying at our feet that ensures we can free ourselves from the structural failure of this “peak” time in our global society? This key is not of necessity Succession in its political sense, but it is a pulling out of our “chips” from the Industrialized Global Market table of [...]

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GMOs on the Move

Rural Vermont Action Over the last couple of weeks, Rural Vermont has been hearing a lot about the Unites States Department of Agriculture’s recent decision to clear genetically modified alfalfa for planting. Our farmer members are concerned that this decision could drastically impact Vermont’s organic farms. In 2005-2006, Rural Vermont was at the forefront of [...]

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The Key to Freedom Laying at Our Feet

The world is changing and changing fast! “The barn” of society is burning, we are handcuffed inside with the keys laying at our feet. What will we do? We in “the West” have been worked, taxed and sublimated into passivity. As the tides are rising against the Global Colonialist Gang we must awaken to the [...]

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