Gaelan Brown on the Possibility of a Vermont State Bank

Gaelan Brown’s  recent article on Vermont Commons: Financial Lifeboats While there are legitimate flaws of our entire fiat/compound-interest money and banking system, there IS a way for state-level financial self-reliance to be created independently of the corrupt mega-banks and the unconstitutional Federal Reserve. North Dakota’s State-owned bank is not a socialist-program, it’s merely an example of a [...]

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Vermont Innovators for a Sustainable World – Trailer

I just ran across this “Trailer for proposed media project exploring the emerging infrastructure of sustainability in Vermont”. I hope this project is successful and becomes a full length documentary film!

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21st Century Rebel – Food Watch Daily

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, I will also link it on the side bar under Blogroll. It is an automatically generated news paper from RSS feeds and Twitter [...]

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Trying to Quell the Voice of the 99% UPDATED

The recent developments in the Nation wide Occupy Movement shows a collective effort by city, state and/or federal officials to quell the voice and actions of occupiers expression of direct democracy. An article covering the coordinated effort to evict OWS movements- Police State Tactics: Signs Point to a Coordinated National Program to Try and Unoccupy Wall [...]

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How Will the 2012 Farm Bill Affect Vermont?

Food journalist Michael Pollan explains why everyone should care about this important legislation in this interview featured on Nourish Blog. Nourish is an educational initiative designed to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability, particularly in schools and communities. Visit www.nourishlife.org to learn how you can take part in the 2012 Farm Bill. The Farm Bill sets [...]

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More Vermont Rice Pioneers!

Breezy Meadows Orchards and Nursery is a young Permaculture farm run by Josh Brill and  Meadow Squier in Tinmouth, Vermont. They are yet another of Vermont’s pioneering rice growers. By using Kickstart.com They have secured enough funds to expand their rice production to one full acre which will potentially supply between 3000 and 5000 pounds of rice. Check out their [...]

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Homeless in Vermont – Occupy your Heart

The occupation of Burlington’s city hall park has entered into a common trend that the nation wide movement of occupations share now, becoming a refuge for the homeless. This issue made it to the attention of Vermont’s mainstream media today Nov. 9th on WCAX after a letter was mailed to Burlington’s Mayor Bob Kiss, stating [...]

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Sow Seeds not Greed – Guerrilla Gardening OWS

(Video below) Vermont guerilla gardeners at Occupy Wall Street spreading the love by planting Organic seeds from the grassroots Vermont based seed company High Mowing Seeds. These activists, though not affiliated with High Mowing, are fulfilling their philosophy: we believe in re-imagining what our world can be like. We believe in a deeper understanding of [...]

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Vermont Food Sovereignty Meeting Jan. 19

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY MEETING January 19, 6pm-7:45pm Kellog Hubbard Library, MONTPELIER Rural Vermont will be facilitating a discussion with Transition Town Montpelier about how communities can grow local food sovereignty. In preparation for Town Meeting Day articles, discussion will highlight Montpelier’s Food Sovereignty Resolution and other methods to raise awareness about the campaign. For more information or if [...]

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De-Personhooding Corporations House Party

Corporate Personhood is the ideology that claims Corporations have the same Constitutional Rights as people and that their campagn contributions are considered freedom-of-speech protected under the First Amendment rights of these “Corporate-Persons”. Several movements have formed to reverse the supreme court ruling which guarantees corporations the right to contribute unlimited funding to political campaigns. More info. [...]

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Vandana Shiva @ The Right to Know March – GMO labeling

Last year, October was chosen to be Non‐GMO Awareness Month by the Non‐GMO Project. This initiative declares people’s right to know what food and products contain Genetically Modified Organisms. On October 1st a group of concerned citizens and food-freedom advocates marched over 300 miles from Brooklyn, NY to the White House. This Video is Vandana Shiva, a [...]

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