Farming
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...
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...
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, Finance, Currency, Food, Governance, Transportation, Farming, Elections, Environment, Education
It appears we were just one more meeting (and 2 pizzas, one growler and a nice Beaujolais...) away from finalizing our new COOP mission statement. Our Board members think this statement very nicely distills what we are trying to do here. If you agree that our goals are laudable and viable, please join our merry band and help us 'shrug off' the burdens of Empire.
Vermont Commons News Cooperative Mission Statement:
The Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence COOP provides an organizational news model that is transparent and equitable, one that balances crowdsourcing of actions, access to...
Orginally published at Transition Voice
The following dialog is a continuation of one started by Drs. Sherry Ackerman and Guy McPherson a few weeks ago on Transition Voice. In that discussion, Ackerman and McPherson laid out some philosophical considerations about the need for a transition to more locally-based economies of human scale along with a deeper reverence for and consideration of the natural world that we share with plants, animals and other natural forms. In the...
Activism, Business, Economics, Health, Governance, Farming, Politics, Environment, Energy, Common Assets
One of Dick Cheney’s final acts when in government was to change the legislation so that the companies carrying out fracking are exempt from the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and a raft of other environmental legislation. – Rob Hopkins
It seems that every day there’s a new threat to our lives, our health, our futures. Forced vaccinations, school closings, drones, crackdowns on small farms producing local food… the corporations always seem one step ahead of us, and ready to buy off our legislators. But here’s one place we can act before they do: ban fracking in Vermont. What...
Unless your mobile home was blown all over the county on opening day of the tornado season, this must seem like an interlude of reassuring normality in the world's convulsive wendings. The IED known as Greece has not quite yet exploded, loud as all the graveyard whistling that emanates from Europe might be. Even the invocation of a "credit event" by the notorious ISDA has seen a first-stage payout of a few mere billions - though you've got to believe that this is some kind of stage-managed dumb-show designed to conceal the fact that the whole credit default swap racket is a network of frauds.
Where I live, in the...
A great video that covers most of the big issues around small food production (in this case raw milk) Infuriating and inspiring all at the same time. Please take 20 minutes to watch it.
Activism, Commerce, Business, Economics, Other, Governance, Foreign Policy, Transportation, Farming, Elections
Saturday February 18, 2012
House Chamber of The Vermont State House
Montpelier, VT
12 noon-3pm
Peace – Love – Liberty
Join us as we fire up the Ron Paul 
in Vermont and respond to the status quo, party line rhetoric with REAL CHANGE: the message of liberty, freedom and a return to the Constitution.
Vermont’s open...
Bioterrorism is back in the news. The FBI just closed its investigation of the anthrax attack in 2001 that killed 15 people and sickened 17 others. More recently, we have concerns that the laboratory-created highly infectious and lethal H5N1virus might fall into the hands of terrorists. It is, thus, highly propitious the new director of the FDA, Margaret Hamburg, the former Health Commissioner of the State of New York is an expert on bioterrorism. In his remarks at the appointment ceremony President Obama noted that the FDA, as it is presently operating has failed to protect the quality of the American food supply from microbial...
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