Green Zine Program Links and Info

11/23 Show info
https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/whats-wattles
guest Steve Crowley
Future grid https://www.volts.wtf/p/managing-a-distributed-grid#details
Events: https://vecan.net/15th-annual-vecan-conference-2022/
On Thursday, November 30th, consider attending the public Q&A session on Bill H.59, an act relating to community resilience and biodiversity protection, from 4:30 – 5:30 on Zoom.

Register by going to https://vhcb.org/our-programs/VCSI

Here’s what to expect:

“We are collecting feedback from various stakeholders on several key questions to complete an inventory of current and possible conservation in Vermont:

· What are our values in creating the Conservation Plan? What is important to you to have in the 30×30 and 50×50 Conservation Plan?

· What kinds of land counts towards the goals? What kind of conservation practices or land protection counts towards the goals in the Act?

· How are we getting there? What are the practices, programs, methods we are currently using or could use to get to our goals?

· How do we improve equity? How equitable are existing land protection and conservation strategies and programs? How can we achieve more equity and access?

· What are the current and potential funding opportunities?. What are existing and potential funding sources that can be leveraged to accelerate conservation?”

Follow the link for more information:

VHCB.ORG

Vermont Conservation Strategy Initiative | Vermont Housing & Conservation Board

11/16 Show info
Bird Note: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/precision-flight-flocks-how-does-it-work
Astronomy: starts with beautiful pictures and moves on to such items as early galaxies are to mature, building blocks of life detected very early. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S0rKHbMeaZnSgKsI6_0ZFstC4Xz30yFE/view?usp=sharing
Gest: Dan Kittredge head of The Bionutrient Food Association  A deep dive into Food-Health-Climate. https://www.bionutrient.org/newsletters/bfa-newsletter-9-12-23 and https://www.bionutrient.org/newsletters/bfa-newsletter-10-20-23
and a 5 minuet animation to explain the cooling process that Walter Jenhe has championed and Dan Kittridge referd to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-oJyInmTTo
Recording of show: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19P1BSGYA1wQFYcIzWFbtrEpxUdmVH_sg/view?usp=sharing
11/9 show info
Gest Paul Zabriskie weatherization and clean energy at Capstone community action offering free and low cost weatherization for medium and low income Vermonters. https://capstonevt.org/
recording of show: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S0rKHbMeaZnSgKsI6_0ZFstC4Xz30yFE/view?usp=sharing
11/2 show info
https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/wenfei-tong-seeing-ourselves-birds
and
https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/magpie-jay-flocks-are-led-females
$s for tightening up your house: Windows $600, Doors $500, Insolation 30% up to$1,200, energy audit $150  see: https://www.efficiencyvermont.com/news-blog/news/button-up-campaign-encourages-vermonters-to-stay-warm-with-new-weatherization-offers
And more help for medium and low income Vermonters https://capstonevt.org/heat-and-utility-assistance
From the EPA: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/air-sealing-your-home
Guest: Targeting 100% renewable by 2030 Robin Chestnut Tanergerman: https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/single/2024/37403
https://www.distilled.earth/p/the-solar-waste-problem-in-context
Fracking for geothermal electricity generation (NE probably the best location)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zazGS3Sxty4

Events: Total energy News Clean Heat standard:We are delighted to announce that we will again be hosting the EAN Leveraging Change Speaker Series, which was a popular in-person event for EAN members before it was shut down by COVID. Restarting on November 2nd from 5-7pm in Montpelier, we plan to host these events approximately once per month to bring in speakers from our broader region who can help advance understanding of emerging opportunities to make breakthrough progress toward Vermont’s climate and energy commitments.

This new series starts close to home with a conversation about: Climate Resilience successes and opportunities. Our speakers will be Sue Minter, Executive Director of Capstone Community Action and Neale Lunderville, President & CEO of VGS, both of whom served as Chief Recovery Officers after Tropical Storm Irene. Peter Walke, Managing Director of Efficiency Vermont, will moderate the conversation. There will also be plenty of time for networking. Light food and non-alcoholic beverages will be supplied by Cafe Noa. Attendees are welcome to bring alcoholic beverages (BYOB).

10/26 Info
Bat note: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/shift-change-swallows-bats
Explosive hurricane development: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/10/nightmare-scenario-category-5-hurricane-otis-devastates-acapulco/
Our guest Kevin Bailey talking about solar and Solarfest happening this Saturday: https://solarfest.org/
Events and actions:
Energy Action Network (EAN)  Nov 2 5-7 Montpellier Leveraging Change Speaker Series. Climate Resilience successes and opportunities. Our speakers will be Sue Minter, Executive Director of Capstone Community Action and Neale Lunderville, President & CEO of VGS, both of whom served as Chief Recovery Officers after Tropical Storm Irene. Peter Walke, Managing Director of Efficiency Vermont, will moderate the conversation. There will also be plenty of time for networking. Light food and non-alcoholic beverages will be supplied by Cafe Noa. Attendees are welcome to bring alcoholic beverages (BYOB).

Register to attend!

Thanks to everyone who attended the EAN Summit on September 28 and 29. The videos from the first day of the summit are now available on the EAN website. If you attended the summit, but have not yet had a chance to submit your evaluation, please share your feedback with us by the end of this week.

Vermont climate action network website: https://vecan.net/ and programs of special interest from their newsletter:

10/19 Show Info
https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/canada-geese-migratory-or-not

Words of wisdom:

Five Steps to Climate Sanity:

         Beyond Both Despair and Hopium

 

  1. Stay abreast of climate science. Accept its difficult conclusions as the best understanding we have. Expect to be alarmed on a regular basis, inescapably. Learn.

 

  1. Accept also that both societies and natural systems are already fated to devastating developments.  Terrible losses lie ahead.  Almost everything will be changing. The future isn’t what it used to be.  A great sadness is normal.  Cry.

 

  1. Recognize that warnings about climate change and forceful proposals for national action to address the threats go back almost five decades.  The failure to act over these years may be the greatest failure of civic responsibility in the history of the republic.  Get mad.

 

  1. Appreciate that no matter how tearful the future, every fraction of a degree makes a difference.  Every bit of warming we prevent is important. Learn well what must be done to head off future devastations, including both the immediate steps and the deep societal and economic transformations. Dream.

 

  1. Know that the fight for the future requires all of us, each bringing what we can to the effort. Find ways to get involved, seriously involved. Know too that in the end our efforts do not depend on our odds of success.  We must act even in the face of hopelessness, warriors defending a sacred place, simply because it is the right thing to do,rebelling beyond hope because the human spirit tells us with insistence that what is unacceptable—all the suffering, all the loss, all the tears—must not be accepted. Fight.

Gus Speth

 

October 8,

Our guest: Nancy Mallory publisher of Green Energy Times.

Montpelier 5-7PM October 2nd:

We are delighted to announce that we will again be hosting the EAN Leveraging Change Speaker Series, which was a popular in-person event for EAN members before it was shut down by COVID. Restarting on November 2nd from 5-7pm in Montpelier, we plan to host these events approximately once per month to bring in speakers from our broader region who can help advance understanding of emerging opportunities to make breakthrough progress toward Vermont’s climate and energy commitments.

This new series starts close to home with a conversation about: Climate Resilience successes and opportunities. Our speakers will be Sue Minter, Executive Director of Capstone Community Action and Neale Lunderville, President & CEO of VGS, both of whom served as Chief Recovery Officers after Tropical Storm Irene. Peter Walke, Managing Director of Efficiency Vermont, will moderate the conversation. There will also be plenty of time for networking. Light food and non-alcoholic beverages will be supplied by Cafe Noa. Attendees are welcome to bring alcoholic beverages (BYOB).

Register to attend!

Thanks to everyone who attended the EAN Summit on September 28 and 29. The videos from the first day of the summit are now available on the EAN website. If you attended the summit, but have not yet had a chance to submit your evaluation, please share your feedback with us by the end of this week.

All the best,

Cara, Jared, and Lena

BURNED free screening https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGtxddjsdvWlgpVrqmfxRbfTGbX?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1
10/12 Show links
https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/does-robin-hear-its-worm
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/sounds-of-the-soil-a-new-tool-for-conservation/
  • Researchers are discovering that listening to the soil can be a way to understand biodiversity belowground without having to overturn every bit of the land.
  • Studies have shown that soils of restored forest areas have both more complex sounds and more critters than soils of degraded sites.
  • Soils of intensively managed agricultural lands, also appear to be quieter, indicating that soil sounds could be a proxy for soil health.
  • Some researchers are also using sounds to identify distinct species in the soil, which could open up lots of possibilities for both pest management and wildlife conservation.
Our guest: Peter Ehrlich recent diy heat pump installer. His guide: https://thezeropercentclub.org/cold-climate-heat-pumps/
Citizens Climate Lobby is preparing to lobby Vermont legislators in DC on these subjects: Carbon Pricing, Healthy Forests, Clean Energy Permitting Reform, Building Electrification and Efficiency. You can join the CCL vermonters callWednesday night, October 18, we hope you’ll join us also for our Vermont monthly call at 7:30pm Eastern. (Note: the Vermont call usually lasts about an hour.) Here is the link to the call: https://citizensclimate.zoom.us/j/3379330535  Password: 123
And from Bill McKibben: https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-rays-of-the-sun
https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-accelerate-rooftop-solar-and#details
10/5 Show links
Bird note: Nut hatches warding off squirrels https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/nuthatches-sweeping-nest
just how do greenhouse gasses work? brace yourself. https://youtu.be/oqu5DjzOBF8?si=OixyuD4KO2OFDXn1 My takeaway, Cool now by increasing green cover which will move ground heat up to cloud height giving it a much shorter escape route to space.
bringing back wild bees: https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildlife-bringing-back-californias-wild-bees
also see: Native bees such as the mason bee are more efficient at pollination than honeybees.  It takes about two hundred and fifty mason bees to pollinate one acre of apple trees. It would take approximately ten thousand to two hundred fifty-thousand honeybees to accomplish the same task. So what can we do to help preserve and increase this crop of pollinators? Here are a couple of easy ideas… https://www.johnson.k-state.edu/lawn-garden/agent-articles/insects/the-pollinator-workhorse-solitary-bees.html
Our guest: Robyn King, Efficiency VT’s home weatherization program manager. Learn how you can make progress.
Customer support line: 888-921-5990
https://www.efficiencyvermont.com/news-blog/news/button-up-campaign-encourages-vermonters-to-stay-warm-with-new-weatherization-offers#:~:text=About%20Button%20Up%20Vermont&text=From%20tips%20on%20air%20sealing,is%20sponsored%20by%20Efficiency%20Vermont.
$s here for you too: https://dcf.vermont.gov/benefits/weatherization
 Upcoming events:
https://www.350vermont.org/ October 14, Convergence, I skill up and Power up. Sign up.
9/28 Show info:
Bird note daily https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/geese-whiffling-landing
Guest Gene Krouse of Bethel energy Committee: Burning or Burrowing, Upcoming event October 5 5:00 meal, 5:30-7:00 program at Bethel elementary and Middle school. (Ground source heat pumps)
Weigh in on not going the root of spending to heat the UVM hospital with low efficiency wood burning and keeping Mcneal alive for many more years at the same time.
The bottom line, Even with the updates it is only 29% efficient, see
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/pipe-dream-its-decision-time-on-burlingtons-long-simmering-proposal-to-heat-buildings-with-wood-fired-steam/Content?oid=39187947
Visit link for taking action… a phone call:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13sl9OSkWTpB5l5izZ1u0mKhWTAZhrtFQoljpDRZYLtw/edit
9/14 show info:
Guest David roberts of Drive Electric VT
https://www.driveelectricvt.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjw3oqoBhAjEiwA_UaLthvCs8KbJw1Bwor1hmvShkTGLPv84Zqz0ZTdeHVJIykWrW7Wh17LpBoCCHAQAvD_BwE
Other ways to turn down the heat besides fossil fuel reduction:
Nature will help if we stop fighting with it. See:
Film Regenerating Life trailer. https://vimeo.com/797064811

And more from Humming Bird Films

SYMBIOTIC EARTH TRAILER (1.5 minutes)A film about Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration. https://hummingbirdfilms.com/symbioticearth/
More on the power of nature when there is diversity, the quarm effect:
Christien Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqV1b4ps-sE
And from yesterday’s news letter from the Bionutrient Food Association building on diversity: Any individual metric like local vs. grocery store, organic vs. not organic, this variety vs. that variety, does not seem to be a good identifier as to what the overall nutrient levels of a crop are. Our hypothesis is that overall system function of the soil, instead of claims like no-till or cover crop, is much more likely to be the dominant causal factor in determining the quality of crops produced.
To Join the “NO to Fossil Fuels” bus toure and march in NYC on Sunday the 17th contact
Maeve McCurdy (she/her)

Operations Manager

802-793-3270
9/6 Show links:
https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-making-garbage-useful-with-tom-szaky-of-terracycle/
https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-electrifying-aviation-with-kyle-clark-of-beta-technologies/?queryID=5e27a41c67c69f5bcc34aed06515049e
VT 350 activities and Buss to NYC for climat day
https://350vt.nationbuilder.com/empowervtkickoff
8/31 Show info
Carbon border adjustment in 60 seconds It is coming like it or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc4jfgFqQpM
Ted Halstead presenting an approach republicans could buy into including further info on climate border adjustment.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_halstead_a_climate_solution_where_all_sides_can_win?language=en
Further in depth CBam info from CCL 40 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc__a3HL4rc
Supporting farmers with flood relief, both giving and applying
https://vermontcf.org/our-impact/programs-and-funds/farm-disaster-relief/
8/24 Show info
Saul Griffith on VOLT podcast https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-conversation-with-saul-griffith?utm_source=podcast-
Series of the IRA from NPR: https://the1a.org/series/plugged-in-how-is-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-changing-america/
Electric carreimberesments in Vermont:
https://www.driveelectricvt.com/incentives/vermont-state-incentives#ryr
Tonight 5;30 – 6;30 green drinks https://www.sustainablewoodstock.org/event/green-drinks-how-to-buy-an-ev-or-hybrid-plug-in-electric-car/
8/17 Show info
our guest Andres Aulelet of Tunbridge. Solar Do It Yourself, reducing our consumption, living more comfortably. resource: https://diysolarforum.com/resources/wiring-unlimited.2/
James Hanson says
[Political leaders at the United Nations COP (Conference of the Parties) meetings give the impression that progress is being made and it is still feasible to limit global warming to as little as 1.5°C. That is pure, unadulterated, hogwash, as exposed by minimal understanding of Fig. 6 here and Fig. 27 in reference 6. It is important that the remarkable observations that allowed construction of Fig. 6 are continued and improved – which is a greater challenge than governments may be aware of. Precise observations are needed from space and throughout the global ocean.]
see:https://csas.earth.columbia.edu/about/people/james-e-hansen
Join the march to end fossil fuel in NYC September 17th busses from VT by VT350 limited space so sign up now: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPtfGSt8DqgumGq_kfVfZydkXOs8qY3caSobtcFyxQN8Eu8A/viewform
8/10 Show info
Guest David Farnsworth. Regulatory Assistance Program, https://www.raponline.org/knowledge-center/  & https://www.raponline.org/knowledge-center/?_sf_s=benificial%20electrification
Capture CO2 making sustainable building materials: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/08/fabulous-fungi-could-help-shrink-the-carbon-footprint-of-our-homes/
8/3 Show info
Book A Forest Journey, The role of trees in the fate of civilization by John Perlin. Intro and endnotes of special interest.

Events: Balevt.org  Hoodwinked: Missing the forest for the trees

Thu., August 10 at 7 PM, BALE Commons, South Royalton

Zack Porter                           Reservation HERE

Also Homo Naledi https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/unknown-cave-of-bones-trailer.
GUESTS: VIPERG.org ‘s Ben Walch and Anna Seuberling, The Make Big Oil Pay campaign
https://www.makebigoilpay.org/
The NYT series Todd recommended: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/opinion/climate-change-madrid.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap
7/27 show info
We are in a climate crisis. Smoke Fire Flood and the creation of uninhabitable zones.
2023 Antarctic sea Ice is not forming on schedule. Aric mels is business as usual due to smoke shading. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
In 50 year 1/3 of the words population will be uninhabitable zones https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/05/04/world-heat-conditions-unlivable-global-warming-unabated/3063849001/
Make your home more energy efficient. Capstone may do it for free: https://dcf.vermont.gov/benefits/weatherization
Current rebates: https://www.efficiencyvermont.com/rebates
Hold lawmakers accountable for what they say is what they do. Listen to 7/26 episode of Reveal exposing the feds Renewable energy Credit greenwashing: https://revealnews.org/episodes/
7/20 Show info
Doon of Green Mountain Bikes in Rochester will be our guest to talk about Electric Bikes. https://bigtownvermont.com/green-mt-bikes
Hoodwinked in the Greenwashed mountains continues: https://www.balevt.org/ also discussion circle next meeting 7/30 at 6:30 contact balevt@gmale.com, Past programs are up on YouTub. See Kevin Jones presentation on our electricity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj8_O1wCYiQ
Also see what Canada did about a carbon tax: www.bloomberg.com/green-zero-emissions-podcast?utm_source=community.citizensclimate.org&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=website
Citizens Climate Lobby has been working on US carbon tax for years and has good traction in Washington.
see what the vermont team said about their recent trip to Washington. https://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/recap-vermonters-lobbying-dc
Come to the upper valley CCL  gathering this Saturday in Wilder at 12:00. Contact me for details
henryswayze@gmail.com
Join me on this Zoom call and hear how to spread the word on using the Inflation Reduction Act dollars to reduce our energy usage.
Event Details
What: Rewiring America & Abode Energy Management Webinar
When: Monday, July 24th, 2-3pm EST.
Where: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89012921967 Meeting ID: 890 1292 1967
7/13 Show Info
Peter Sterling Executive director of Renewable Energy Vermont our guest. https://www.revermont.org/ Climate- fires, floods, 100-1,000 year events- how do we generate our electricity with out greenwashing?
https://www.greenenergytimes.org/2022/02/vermonts-dirty-little-secret/
Is livestock grazing necessary for climate mitigation? Allan Savory and George Monbiot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhwEaCmQ2XE
https://newengland511.org/
6/29 show info
Courtney Collins Will tell us about the HOT TOPICS series at the law school, https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/environmental-law-center/summer/hot-topics
Additionality? The big problem with carbon offsets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjuBTwlSAGw
And more from the series https://www.distilled.earth/
Future energy news https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/integrity+reaserch/FMfcgzGsnLPVTxxBvjWVnmMFpcRfMZlV
6/22 show info
Guest Earl Hatley of indigenous peoples and helping to develop Hoodwinked in the Green(washed) mountains https://www.balevt.org/ and the national evaluation of what is and is not green:https://climatefalsesolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/HOODWINKED_ThirdEdition_On-Screen_version.pdf
Dr. William Moomaw- Humanity’s Mortality Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl9Z_miGBNw&t=5s 27 minutes from 3 years ago so the required change is not greater.
6/15 show info
Guest Peter Girade of ClimatCentral.org Biomass burning vrs forest sequestration see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8nRQLA4ntY start at 34:50 Hoodwinked at BALE tonight 7PM
6/8 show info
HOODWINKED IN THE GREEN(WASHED) MOUNTAINS series https://www.balevt.org/
Bill McKibben talk at saturday’s VECAN spring conference plus resources for $s and help getting and planning for action: https://vecan.net/vecan-spring-gathering-2023/
Our Guest author Heidi Roop THE CLIMATE ACTION HANDBOOK a visual guide to 100 climate solutions 

6/1/23 show Roger Hill Big picture weather-climate.  https://weatheringheights1.wordpress.com/

links: Steady State Economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXPLfiHP2g