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Join a Wave of Nonviolent Direct Actions to rise up against those responsible for climate breakdown. September 12 - 19, 2023 | New York City https://www.acttoendfossilfuels.org/ MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE The morning after the historic March to End Fossil Fuels, thousands…
From Brattleboro Reformer July 5, 2022 https://www.reformer.com/opinion/columnists/parenteau-supreme-court-has-curtailed-epas-power-to-regulate-carbon-pollution-and-sent-a-warning/article_3607f3f8-fbc3-11ec-ac66-ab7525a43447.html In a highly anticipated but not unexpected 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2022, that the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the…
The following was written on Dec. 7, 2011 and was published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Dec. 9, 2011. It is posted here with the author's permission. Holidays are lethal. The undue stress of celebrating holidays wrecks the health of…
COME TO THE SELECTBOARD MEETING AND GET REAL ABOUT THE CLIMATE The selectboard should start a climate emergency fund, as BCS proposed to the board in September. I noticed this struck a chord with Tim Wessel. The board should also…
The Climate Crisis Committee of the Windham Southeast School District is advocating bold legislation.. Two years ago BCS started a Climate Crisis Committee in the school district in order to create a standing forum for climate issues and to…
I like the KINDS of suggestion I saw today on another website. Mostly people are posting the mild green chores like recycling and green bicycles. This commenter suggested making the planet a priority and consuming less. I'm pretty sure the…
From this chart we see that in 10,000 BCE (12,000 years ago) wild animals comprised 100% of the total vertebrate biomass on this planet. Today, wild animals comprise only 4% -- less biomass than the cats and dogs that we…
This is how we feel about the Brattleboro Energy Goals being set forth by its committee this Tuesday. This committee sets goals without any actionable plans to meet them, and it spends a lot of time acting like reaching these…
The Following is a reprint of an article at: https://vtdigger.org/2020/09/11/jeff-dardozzi-carbon-dioxide-the-effluent-of-wealth/ One hundred and fifty-five years ago this nation laid to rest, with great sacrifice and bloodshed, the greatest question of its day: chattel slavery. This “peculiar institution” of the South…