Brattleboro Common Sense
- Providing Local Solutions to global problems
Django Grace: Community Voice and Activist “I met Kurt Daims of BCS in the summer of 2019. I had just participated in a die-in climate action at a local parade, and was feeling good about myself. Many people were congratulating…
Comments of Charlie Angus of Canada’s New Democratic Party February 15, 2020 The railway blockades across the country have shaken up the political and business establishment in Canada. There are millions of opinions floating around Facebook/Twitter about the meaning of…
[Letter To the] Editor of the [Brattleboro] Reformer, Rep. Pattie McCoy, the Vermont House Minority Leader, claims that she shares Vermonters' "concerns" about climate change and "its impacts on the integrity of Vermont's natural beauty" (Reformer, Jan. 9, 2020). Really?…
Editor of the Reformer, Regarding the issue of natural grass or artificial turf at Brattleboro Union High School, one thing that seems to have been lost in the debate is that everyone seems to agree that the status quo is…
August 7 School board meeting. Pollution in $50M budget LET EARTH BREATHE / Teapot Tempest Kurt Daims tried to clarify that the directors should have climate crisis on their own agenda, because it should be on the minds of officials…
July 24 School board meeting. Pollution in $50M budget LET EARTH BREATHE / Teapot Tempest The directors approved the proposal of BCS to have climate crisis on the directors' agenda at every meeting. They have also started a climate crisis…
June 25 School board meeting. Pollution in $50M budget LET EARTH BREATHE / Teapot Tempest The Climate Crisis campaign of Brattleboro Common Sense (BCS) revealed its next step at the Windham South East School Union meeting Tuesday night. After admonishing…
BCS Hosts a “Silent Storm” Brattleboro Common Sense is creating apolitical spaces that allow folks to explore thoughts and feelings about facing the end of humanity at the hands of climate catastrophe. A “silent [brain-]storm” event was held this Summer…
Truly a sobering story. The man was a civil rights lawyer, but he felt a call for climate rescue and made the desperate sacrifice. We need more people like him -- to stay alive and fight! *F I G H…