Environment
The New Urbanists held their big annual meet-up for four days last week and I stomped a big carbon footprint flying down to West Palm Beach for the doings. I don't know who exactly picked West Palm, but it was at once peculiar, disheartening, instructive, and exhausting.
The Congress for the New Urbanism has been throwing this yearly fandango since its founding in 1993 as a fire-eating reform movement dedicated to transforming the horrifying and toxic human habitat of America. Hopes were lofty in the early days that the US public would recognize the self-evident benefits of ditching suburban sprawl for walkable towns, but it didn't...
The following blog entry is by Sarah at the Healthy Home Economist. Thanks, Sarah!
The vaccine industry went home with its tail between its legs after suffering an enormous and...
Finance, Business, Economics, Foreign Policy, Elections, Military, Politics, Environment, Energy
Europe may soon be choking on that plat du jour of government a la Hollandaise with the side of chopped Greek salad. The whole world, in fact, has got something like a giant hairball stuck in its craw. The hairball is composed of filaments of lies wound over a core of supernatural indebtedness. The lies are promises that the debt will be paid back.
For two months the financial markets have gone sideways on a cushion of the European Central Bank's Long term Financing Operations and the hot air of austerity chatter. The illusion of remaining airborne may dissolve now with the Hollandaise denunciation of Franco-German team...
MONTPELIER- A rainy Tuesday morning was not enough to deter the huddled masses yearning to breathe free as more than 500 people marched on the state Capitol to collectively demand that legislators “Put People First.”
Organized by the Vermont Workers’ Center, a coalition of organizations such as Migrant Justice, 350.org, the Vermont...
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on the land is invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. -Aldo Leopold
Rachel Carson’s first book was titled, The Sea Around Us. In Silent Spring, published in 1962, she proclaimed that humanity now lived in a “sea of...
I spoke with Steve Zind yesterday about the F-35 coming to Burlington. Please have a listen!
New F-35 Jets Likely To Bring More Noise To Burlington Area
We had a long conversation and I've done my best to rescontruct what I said and I've elaborated on some points that I missed:
One of the prevailing sentiments expressed by supporters of having the F-35 based with the Vermont Air National Guard is that it represents a show faith in the exemplary service of this unit and I don’t think anyone can...
“Change happens one person at a time. This means there is only one way to alter the trajectory of the troubling conditions the world faces today, and that is for you to make the shift from “Me” to “We.” You must see for yourself the truths inherent in the natural laws of sustainability and the power of the five commitments. If you focus on the broader “We” that makes all life possible, and think and act sustainably, you will find great peace and happiness and become a role model that others will follow.” - Bob Doppelt, “From Me to We"
A number of years ago someone recommended that I read “The...
Activism, OWS, Health, Transportation, Farming, Politics, Environment, Education, Vermont99
BURLINGTON-With each passing day, Vermonters are preparing to toe the line with industrial heavyweights such as Entergy, Monsanto, and the Medical Industrial Complex in remarkable bids on the part of the Green Mountain State to play David to corporate America’s Goliath.
Looming most ominously on the horizon is the specter of Monsanto, the infamous and transnational agri-business giant known for genetically modifying its products with “terminator genes” to prevent farmers from saving seed as well as driving resistant farmers...
Activism, Business, Food&Health, Health, Media, Governance, Politics, Environment, Education, Diplomacy
Dear Dr. Chen,
I have received your email of yesterday. We clearly do have different perspectives. Modern parents spend a great deal of time carefully balancing the benefits of their children being artificially immunized against dangerous diseases, with the risks of such a procedure and make informed choices. The outcome, has been vaccination rates over 91% for all vaccines required for school entry (except chicken pox) by age 6.
At this time I believe it is appropriate to call into question why you have allowed such widespread misinformation (e.g., media reports), concerning Vermont's vaccination rates. This incorrect information has required extensive spending...
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