Food Sovereignty Discussion January 19, 2012

Jan. 19 @6pm-7:45pm Kellogg Hubbard Library 135 Main St. Montpelier Phone: 223-3338   Join the Rural Vermont statewide discussion on growing local food sovereignty. These discussions are designed to assist in (1) defining a particular food shed’s current food system, (2) identifying gaps and barriers, and (3) creating a long-term vision. Also, learn how Vermont’s [...]

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Citizens United Can be Overturned by a Simple Majority Vote by Congress

Video by WHYNotNews on Dec 19, 2011 In this video starting at minute 01:38, Attorney James Leas shares his view on how to change the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The Citizens United case gave corporations the right to spend unlimited funds on campaign contributions, effectively buying our electoral system. Congress has the Constitutional power to restrict the jurisdiction of [...]

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Whole Systems Design – Regenerative Landscapes

Regenerative Landscapes is a series of short films about Permaculture designers in the Northeast - By TerraVisus This film is a tour of the Whole Systems Design Research Farm, presented by Ben Falk. Ben explains how they established their diversified Agroforestry systems. The Agroforestry systems include; storm-water detention basins; ponds, swales and rice paddies, silvopasture systems and intensive rotational grazing. These systems work [...]

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Occupy Burlington – Candlelight Vigil December 17th

by WHYNotNews on Dec 17, 2011 December 17th marks a year since our brother Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in Tunisia. His act began the Arab Spring where ordinary people like ourselves began to stand up for democracy and justice. Nine months later on September 17th in New York City, the Occupy Movement began. In remembrance of Mohamed [...]

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Permaculture Helps Us Share the Surplus!

Burlington Permaculture proves that this time of the year doesn’t have to be, a “shop till you drop” typical holiday experience. Permaculture is a way to design sustainable human societies, it is guided by three ethics; Earth care, people care, and “share the surplus”. Burlington Permaculture has brought these three ethics together online and into the community, [...]

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The Vermont Legislator can Help Save our Honeybee Population

Why are honeybees so important for humans? well, It isn’t just their divine honey, over one third of our fruits and vegetables are reliant on honeybees to pollinate them so they can reproduce. The reproduction of the plant is also the production of our food. As most of us know bees are having a hard [...]

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Lake Champlain – Restoring our Water

Vermont For Evolution is now compiling a resource page for The Remediation and Restoration of Lake Champlain (Link), It is located in our ECO & VT VIDEOS Page. I have always wanted to do this, the following movie trailer kicked me into action! Bloom: The Emergence of Ecological Design This is the follow-up series to last year’s [...]

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Industrial Hemp – Reduce Co2 Emissions & Support Sustainable Agriculture

In this video, filmed on July 28, 2011, Congressman Peter Welch of Vermont was “cornered” into answering some of his constituents. They ask why he had not yet supported the federal resolution H.R. 1831: The Industrial Farming Bill, when Vermont had already passed Hemp farming legislation back in 2008. Well, it took the Congressman a little over 3 months [...]

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