Transportation
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...
A few weeks ago I flew to Chicago, hopped into a rent-a-car, and navigated my way on the tangle of interstate highways to the now mostly former industrial region in the northwest corner of Indiana just off lowest Lake Michigan between the towns of Whiting and Gary. The desolation of human endeavor lay across the land like nausea made visible, but more impressive was how rapid the rise and fall of it all had been.
Not much more than 150 years ago this was a region of marshes, dunes, swales, laurel slicks, and little backwater ponds of the huge lake. The forbidding flat emptiness of the terrain made it perfect for running...
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...
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...
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...
I started hitchhiking in junior high, on those mornings when I missed the last city bus to school and my baritone horn made bicycling a difficult option. Since then, I've hitched short and long distances in the US and Europe, met all types, and arrived at all sorts of destinations.
I was glad to see Leath Tonino's description of a five-day hitchhiking trip around Vermont in Seven Days. I've never hitched without a destination in mind, as he did, but some of my most magical experiences have come from unexpected...
Activism, OWS, Finance, Currency, Commerce, Business, Economics, Governance, Transportation, Politics
Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created and continues...
Currency, Commerce, Economics, History, Foreign Policy, Transportation, Military, Politics
Ellen Brown begins a recent essay explaining the genesis of a bill to create bank credit in Minnesota for the funding of infrastructure: "In August 2007, the nation was stunned by the collapse of a major Minneapolis bridge, killing thirteen. The bridge had been rated structurally deficient by the U.S. government as far back as 1990, and it was only one of more than 70,000 bridges across the country with that rating. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimated that it would take nearly $190 billion to fix the country's failing bridges over the next two decades." See:...
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