Tag: Vermont
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Vermont Bans Fracking: We Can Live Without Oil & Natural Gas, But Cannot Without Clean Water
In signing the ban into law, Vermont's governor reminds us that there was civilization before fossil fuels, but there was no life at all before water.
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Vermont Senate Votes to Ban Fracking
The House passed a three-year moratorium earlier in the year. The Senate proposes to extend the ban indefinitely.
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Vermont Senate Votes Against Citizens United, Corporate Personhood
On town meeting day dozens of Vermont towns voted against corporate personhood, now the state senate has done so as well, urging Congress to act.
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TreeHugger Radio #202: The Warmest Winter Ever, Arsenic in Your Chicken, Dying Dolphins, and Vermont Versus Monsanto
Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont Over GMO Labeling Law
Vermont is one of nearly 20 states considering a GMO labeling requirement for food, but it won't pass if Monsanto has anything to say about it. And it does.
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Energy
Who are the best ambassadors for clean energy, energy industry innovators, activists, and more? Vote here.
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Vermont Towns Vote Yes On Overturning Citizens United Ruling
Dozens of towns have passed resolutions on town meeting day calling for an end to corporate personhood.
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Vermont Introduces Law Requiring Labels on Genetically Modified Foods
Other states are backing similar efforts, but the Vermont law would also prohibit "natural" claims on labels of foods that are genetically modified.
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The Putney School: A High School that Combines Labor, Art, Education -- and Sustainability
The school's progressive approach ensures that sustainability isn't just a concern in the classroom but a central part of daily life.
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Vermont Plans For 90% Of Its Energy From Renewable Sources By 2050
The report gives a snapshot of the challenge facing the Green Mountain State; it's essentially the same challenge facing the entire United States.
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Co-Housing Meets Commercial Farming and Cheese Making (Video)
From co-housing for aging boomers to co-housing in urban Brooklyn the idea of building intentional communities that combine shared communal space and property with private dwellings has a lot going for it, from a green
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Opposition to Vermont Wind Farm Comes From Former Wildlife Department Commissioner
Some well spoken and well meaning opposition to a wind power project in northeastern Vermont today in the New York Times. At issue is whether the clean electricity that
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Is Vermont's Governor Peter Shumlin The Strongest US Politician on Climate & Energy? (Video)
Vermont governor Peter Shumlin speaking at the Moving Planet rally in the state capital Montpelier, 350.org organizer Joe Solomon calls it "the most ambitious speech for climate action by any American politician of that rank...and the first governor to
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Most Popular Articles of August: 13-Year-Old's Science Project, 121-Year-Old's All-Natural Diet, and More (Slideshow)
The long Labor Day weekend (for our American readers, at least) is a bittersweet moment; the extra day off also signals the end of summer. In honor of another season gone, here are the 10 most popular stories we covered in August,
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Stark Aerial Footage Reveals Extent Of Vermont Hurricane Flooding (Video)
The massive extent of flooding damage in Vermont from Hurricane Irene is becoming even more clear. Many communities are still cut off from public utilities, water, food. Supplies are being airlifted in to some areas. WCAX took to the sky to gather the
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More Footage of Vermont Hurricane Flooding, Including Historical Footage From 1927 (Video)
One more video of the post-Irene flooding in Vermont: Eva Sollberger of Stuck in Vermont surveys the damage, the raging Winooski River, plus adds in some interesting historical footage of the famed Flood of 1927--which was the last time Vermont got hit
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Irene's Aftermath: Vermont Flooding Worst Since 1927 - Eight States Receive Hundred-Year Rains
By now you've no doubt seen photos or video of the devastating flooding in Vermont; here's some more of the stats defining the devastation there: Weather Underground reports that Otter Creek in Rutland, Vermont crested at 17.21'--nine feet above flood
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Sierra Club Announces the Nation's "Coolest" Schools
School is a testing ground for the way we perform later in life. It can mold us into fine upstanding members of society, or not. While environmental responsibility isn't something we have to learn early in life, it certainly makes
