Food
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, Finance, Food&Health, Health, Food, Media, Governance, Education, Diplomacy, Vermont Commons
April 19, 2012
Dear Governor Shumlin,
Thank you for your supportive public remarks respecting parental rights to decline pharmaceutical products for their children. The citizens advocacy group Vermont Coalition for Vaccine Choice is pleased with the House of Representatives 125-4 vote, which upholds the philosophical exemption from mandatory vaccines and reaffirms Vermonters’ medical freedom to decline pharmaceutical products. It is our hope that we can stop spending additional time and resources on this issue.
After our Coalition was formed, a startling...
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.
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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...
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...
America is starting to remind me of Bette Davis in the horror movie classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? America is losing its grip on reality. America is acting like an elderly strumpet in too much pancake makeup performing a song-and-dance on the beach while its kinfolk lie dying in the sand.
History is taking us in a certain direction and we don't want to hear about it. We've got our hands clapped over our ears and we're shouting "Kittens and puppies! Kittens and puppies!" Here are some of the things that we're confused about:
-We tell ourselves we're in an economic recovery, meaning we expect to return to a prior economic...
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.
Vermonters gather at the State Capitol to remind their legislature of it's duties to work the well-being and Human Rights of all Vermonters
MONTPELIER- Yesterday marked the beginning of Vermont's 2012 Legislative Session. In addition the usual and expected activities going on in the chambers the State Reprentatives and Senate, this year's opening day witnessed a remarkable number of consituents as they journeyed through single digit temperatures to make their...
On December 4, 2011, farmers and activists from across the country joined the Occupy Wall Street Farmers March for "a celebration of community power to regain control over the most basic element to human well-being: food."
The Farmers March began at La Plaza Cultural Community Gardens where urban and rural farmers addressed an excited crowd about the growing problems in our industrial food system and the promise offered by solutions based in organic, sustainable and community based food and agricultural production. This was followed by a 3-mile march from the East Village...
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