Green Zine Program Links and Info
9/5 Show info
Bird Note: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/birds-talk-people-squawk
VPR What’s with the flooding? By Abigail Giles https://www.nhpr.org/2024-08-31/vermont-was-supposedly-safe-from-the-worst-climate-risks-then-came-relentless-floods
A path to more heat and flood? Biomass to electricity plant being fast tracked: lots of question not even raised even though if this pilot project goes forward it will lead the way to wall street building many more. Want to weigh in? Call me now 603-667-8932
See: https://www.energytech.com/renewables/article/21269579/clean-energy-technologies-and-vermont-renewable-gas-sign-10m-deal-for-biogas-to-power-facility
New EU airline emissions regulation to require emissions transparency, may show a doubling of their warming effect: https://businesstravelerusa.com/news/eu-force-airlines-report-vapor-trails/#:~:text=Under%20the%20new%20legislation%2C%20all%20airlines%20operating%20out,of%20carbon%20dioxide%20%28CO2%29%20they%20emit%20each%20year..
Burlington electric to install 200 EV chargers: https://vtdigger.org/2024/08/29/burlington-electric-to-install-200-new-ev-charging-ports-with-federal-grant/
How to get those folks who rate climate as their top priority to actualy vote. You can help! https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-activate-climate-voters?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=193024&post_id=148029230&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&r=7nldv&triedRedirect=true
8/29 Show Info
8/22 Show Info
Bird note: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/migration-and-fat
Home Energy: especially CO2 heat pumps role in taking advantage of time of day billing. Our clip is fromuthttps://www.volts.wtf/p/heat-pumps-with-thermal-batteries? The company is California based but expanding into New England https://www.harvest-thermal.com/
Resources:
See the 8/8 GZ show for info on free assistance. https://dcf.vermont.gov/contacts/partners/weatherization/Capstone and https://homes.rewiringamerica.org/projects/heating-and-cooling-homeowner#rebates-and-credits https://homes.rewiringamerica.org/projects/heating-and-cooling-homeowner#rebates-and-credits
Free, In-person, in South Strafford Vermont:
Saturday, August 24th, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT.
All are welcome, but I will be tailoring the workshop for town and regional planning and governance, as well as those managing roads and public spaces: Selectboards, Planning Commissions, Conservation Commissions, Conservation Districts, Road Crews, Developers, Landscapers, etc. The workshop is free, and is sponsored by the White River Natural Resources Conservation District.
You can sign up here.
8/15 Show Info
Bird note: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/august-molt
Today we will focus on 2 things: First- “Don’t Burn Our Future” 350VT raley last saturday and upcoming zero footprint music fest in Barnard on Saturday. https://imaginezerofestival.com/ Ben Cogan organiser.
8/8 Show Info
- We now produce enough food to feed 9B people. We just waste 1/3 of it, some in the fields, some in storage and in the US musch of it in our fridge.
- Climate change is affecting production. It is not being fixed.
- His personal opinion is that we need to have “people” generate a simple climate movement to fix it. Ask yourself and acquaintances “How important do you think climate change is?” Unleashed human creativity will fix it.
8/1 Show Info
Upcoming events:
“The Future of Food and Farming”
Dr. Martin Frick, Director of the World Food Programme Global Office (Berlin)
Sign up here
7/25 Show info
Thoughts after viewing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xcXtD6TFoLdX14EZ5OWnLMG0zY1AKrmj/view
Reductive – Holistic
Turning on genes through Complexity and Generational learning (epigenetics)
“Conventional agriculture grows plants with soil,
Regenerative agg grows soil with plants”
- Publish or perish required research with statistical significance. This drives us into reductionist thinking where we can’t see the woods for the trees. Look at this No-till on the Plains 2019 Christine Jones Community Tipping Points Here we see a research trial where only marginally better results are discovered under a controlled-reducionest trial and wildly successful results under “lets throw it all in and see what happens.” Diversity fires biological activity.
- In the Kempf presentation the launching subject is that seeds grown in healthy soil produce seeds in just one generation that produce far better results than the ones they came from. Epigenetics are at work turning on gene switches. No DNA has changed.
- John Kempf goes on to say that AI can unleash information from field trials that can guide holistic experimentation… It is coming soon. It will be a game changer.
More background thinking: “Interdependencies”, “Circular causality”, “biological wisdom” see: https://www.natureinstitute.org/in-context-51/organisms-and-the-phenomena-of-life/ryan-shea
Free access to COMMON GROUND movie online from Sustainable Woodstock only today and tomorrow. https://www.sustainablewoodstock.org/event/common-ground-film-screening/
Join a get out the vote action group, https://www.turnoutpac.org/, https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/24/14811 there is activity in both the White river and Burlington area.
7/18 Show Info
Free on Saturday: COOLING https://lali.teachable.com/p/creating-natural-cooling-oases-for-heatwave-management?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
John Kempf presentation to the Bionutrient Food Association data for growing and evaluating nutrient dense food (Healthy) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xcXtD6TFoLdX14EZ5OWnLMG0zY1AKrmj/view
7/11 Show Info
7/4 A break for Independence day
6/27 Show info:
Henry’s Summing it all up 6/27 for GZ
The world feels like it is in crisis and it is. It feels hopeless. We break down the problems and play whack a mole trying to fix them. We are losing the battle. We are slaves to the deductive process and it has its place but it is personally disempowering. Try to approach the world in an expansive way, a way that is building on itself. Embrace nature. It is the system that has made the earth a beautiful blue planet and supported its teaming life. Natural systems build on themselves. We should work with them, not conquer them.
I have been attending the Bionutrient association 16 session conference and joining others in the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition discussing the state of affairs. Here are some of my takeaways:
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Our food has less and less nutrients and this has many health consequences. Our farming practices are to blame. We are mining rather than enhancing soil.
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Your tastebuds tell the truth. Compare the same food from 2 sources and choose the one that tastes better.
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Our balance of Omega 6 to omega 3 should be no higher than 4:1. The current supermarket diet is 16:1. Fix the balance by eating green things and by eating meat and eggs from animals which have been eating green things instead of grain. Sprout that grain and it becomes a green thing.
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Farmers are working with other farmers to find enhanced ways to improve soil health. These include adding to the diversity of soil life with inoculants made from animal manure complete with its gut biome, bacteria from compost and fungi from slow compost. As little as 2 gallons of a tea per acre made from these materials applied to seed can kickstart soil improvement. Larger amounts work as foliar spray.
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Improved soil health grows food that tastes better, is better for your health, grows larger crops with far less inputs and no chemical additives and is good for the environment by increasing its resilience: flood- drought, polluting runoff, cooling the ground temperature. It is a building process, a holistic process and it bring personal empowerment
We have a fixation on carbon pollution when it is not the only thing we must focus on. The USDA, IPPC and even wall street are acting like it is the one and only. Consider the bionic pump. It is holistic and powerful. It drives cooling, reverse desertification and maybe even makes the wind. https://www.thebioticpump.com/ It is focused on forests but some of the same can be said of agricultural land if nature is worked with holistically. Look at the effort to practice regenerative agriculture and its product labeling.
6/20 Show info:
Guest: Judith D. Schwartz
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Recent Article we talked about: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/cutting-forests-for-solar-energy-misses-the-plot-on-climate-action-commentary/
https://climatechange.vermont.gov/event/vermonts-climate-action-plan-2025-update-kick
6/13 Show info:
6/6 Show info: recommendations or questions: henryswayze@gmail.com
My fling adventure then the bird I heard while waiting for rescue-
Sen. Sears in Bennington County
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Sen McCormack from Windsor County
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Sen Julow from Grand Isle who is replacing Sen Mazza
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Sen. Chittenden from Chittenden Southeast
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Sen. Wrenner from Chittenden North
VPIRG link to contact your legislator: https://secure.everyaction.com/QdJed7tCW0yEXDIclbrOWw2?contactdata=Anv39GWRadDoCJMOYIIu1CS9Hf61LUROPB87HvvhwTHF9EZNUeIbIofxUOy6FAeD1uTZ1A09o5609vZSURMQjwRWqJrL3dt2V5nVR8CFLbUGW%2fS6jDoaEVylYBibHPYLWFrGZVrhwZS3ghjojd0fNWeNPtVFt0gyLF4PEeF89ncBvnlce+UC3ijTp4j6uJUDzEYa8uYXkf2xVBn+5lpITOs2VCxvbPmZEnjlEd4QdpmAEtK%2fqRMsE9v1VZJjBt4%2f&emci=dfa1d157-dd1d-ef11-86d0-6045bdd9e096&emdi=4d9d9c3c-f01d-ef11-86d0-6045bdd9e096&ceid=2043447
5/30 Show info:
Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe: https://www.talkingclimate.ca/p/the-economy-is-up-emissions-are-down
5/23 Show info
Presentation #2 from the 11th Soil & Nutrition Conference
Ken Hamelton & John Umhau (past-NIH)
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Our diet has moved away from a well balanced ratio of omega 6-3 to one very heavy on 6s and it is devastating to our health. Heart, allergies, and problems of the brain including: addiction, depression, autism and on are all affected and never were there before shifting to a high 6 diet.
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Feedlot beef has as much as 15X more 6 than grass fed beef. It is the grain that does it but if we sprout or ferment before animal digestion then the 3s become highly dominant.
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Also sprouted grains are strong on 3s for our own diet as is algae based foods and seafoods.
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Chickens fed grain produce eggs and meat heavy in 6s. Feed sprouted grains and then they are then heavy on 3s.
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Fast growing animals are tender and tasty. Feedlots do that well. Grass-legume-herb fed animals do not tend to grow as fast because the forage is slower to digest but if we ferment the forage especially with the right additives we can get to feedlot growth rates and produce a very tender tasty product even at a lower cost and having very high Omega 3s.
My quick overview of what I took away. Henry Swayze 5/21/’24
Guest at 11:35 Griffin Sinclair-Wingate “A Summer of Heat” direct action to starve big oil of money. On Line tonight at 7:30. https://www.summerofheat.org/
Audio teaser for joining the Climate Cabinet. getting the transition to renewable energy done. It is all about getting the right decision makers in the driver’s seat. https://www.volts.wtf/p/using-
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5/9 Show info To reach us:henryswayze@gmail.com
Decarbonizing trucking and also natural gas to electricity EPA new rules. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/29/1241410274/emissions-heavy-duty-trucks-rule-epa
5/2 Show info To reach us:henryswayze@gmail.com
Bird: https://www.birdnote.org/
4/25 Show info To reach us: henryswayze@gmail.com
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4/18 Show info
Bird Note: https://www.birdnote.org/
4/11 Show info Have comments email henryswayze@gmail.com
Bird Note: https://www.birdnote.
4/4 show
All about Having Fun:
3/28 Show info
Bird
#1 https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/voices-and-vocabularies-eastern-bluebirds
#2 https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/rita-shultz-friend-bluebirds
Blue Bird house build: https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/three-designed-birdhouse-plans-for-eastern-bluebirds.html 2 very important positive moves to reduce global emissions of GH gases
1) The work of methane sat.
First 14:15 of https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-these-methane
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2) Biden announced $6 Billion for reducing emissions from industrial production processes first 6:04 min of Volts/ https://www.volts.wtf/p/biden-sets-out-to-supercharge-industrial we played part of this not the one above as intended. also interesting: https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-scope-3-emissions
Yesterday’s 350Vermont’s electricity committee with our congressional reps staff for environmental affairs
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3/21 Show info
Bird note: https://www.birdnote.
See the tool-program: https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/
7 Days article affluent Vermonters suggest a 3% sercharge https://mail.
Renewable Energy Carbon absorbing building in Taipei Taiwan The annual carbon absorption reaches around 130 tons with green coverage at 246% https://amazingarchitecture.
Guest: Kevin Geiger of Two Rivers Ottauquechee Regional Commission; How floods happen and what’s to do?
Events: Bill Mckibben on line 3/26 https://actionnetwork.org/events/march-26-speakerbillmckibben 4/5 Film produce of “Innodation” https://www.sustainablewoodstock.org/
3/14 Show info Bird note https://www.birdnote.org/listen/birdnote-daily?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwMqvBhCtARIsAIXsZpZlfLFXOp6nAriAqQMaQvtpdgnmn6HxQcP4bhHbvhnKR3ey4xmDFCAaAoUjEALw_wcB Two clips. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/the-climate-connections-podcast/ then What is Imbodied Carbon from 3/5 And then: Converting vacant offices to apartments would be a win for the climate from 2/26 Gest: Tom Hughes of VPIRG to talk about climate legislation in crossover. Standing Trees VT telephone gapp. Register your complaint: https://www.standingtrees.org/post/telephone-gap-on-the-chopping-block
March 26 – Speaker Series – Bill McKibben, “In the hottest year, where do we stand? Notes from the climate fight” https://actionnetwork.org/events/march-26-speakerbillmckibben
3/7 Show info Nest Boxes https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/nest-boxes-help-bring-birds-back Legislature at crossover: https://vcv.podbean.com/e/24halftime?emci=6d313574-fbd7-ee11-85f9-002248223794&emdi=73536b12-28da-ee11-85f9-002248223794&ceid=47018372/29 Electrifying your home, a plan: https://www.volts.wtf/p/so-you-want-to-electrify-your-home Rewire America website with lots of resources: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/ One page document on planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tMEdOLFzs2pKl_J1XrPHF17hqyg0BtYJ6TEuzYUPvxU/edit?usp=sharing 2/29 Show info Birds- Diversity https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/planting-oaks-birds Eclips April 8 https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-01-16/map-see-exactly-where-and-when-the-2024-total-solar-eclipse-will-be-visible-in-vermont?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA84CvBhCaARIsAMkAvkJZPxg5FDM5PqX3eG_e9I3bFIEy5yCWd1uxfdd5llOSH9hRZkNOEfEaAltOEALw_wcB Guest: Environmental Defence Fund’s Doria Gordon. https://www.edf.org/people/doria-gordon https://www.edf.org/issue/natural-climate-solutions About this episode from Extinction rebellion radio: We can’t tackle the climate emergency without some level of government regulation. Those regulations don’t work unless they are enforced. But enforcement isn’t happening, not very widely anyway. To understand how and why environmental protections are not being enforced in both the U.S. and the U.K. we talk with Eleanor Godwin, the researcher who compiled and published this information. Audioport link: Run time: 25:00 http://audioport.org/index.
2/22 Show Info Bird note https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/light-and-song-sparks-winter Podcast from Didi Pershouse. How grass roots mentorship in India saved the environment, the farmers and the quality of food: https://didipershouse.substack.com/p/vijay-kumar-how-poor-rural-women?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=1158510&post_id=141555389&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&r=7nldv 2/15 Show info Bird Note: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/burrowing-snowbirds * David Roberts fron Efficiency VT’s Drive electric will be our guest: https://www.driveelectricvt.com/? * Hunter Lovins shows us rates of adoption of new technologies and lots more: https://youtu.be/8oYIbPhwPoo?t=266 * Also of interest Quick Charging in the Future: https://electrek.co/2024/02/12/quick-charge-podcast-february-12-2024/ Events: Extinction Rebellion call for you to get involved: Our Open House on Saturday, February 24, 11 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. MT, 1 p.m. CT, 2 p.m. ET, is for you! Todays: https://www.greenenergytimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GET_Feb-2024.pdf
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2/8 Show Info https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/simple-complex-bird-sounds https://birdwatchinghq.com/vultures-in-vermont/ House passes RES. on to the senate. to stay in the loup sign in here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0BjllyONFvh6fLmyrX007BkF0FkPpbdYPAcTde3xK7WGhLg/viewform Good article on House RES action: https://vtdigger.org/2024/02/07/a-bill-that-would-reform-the-renewable-energy-standard-in-vermont-clears-key-panel/ Our guest Debbie New, heat pumps and especially capturing waste heat with community networked and Ground Source Heat pumps. Lots of resources here: https://www.vctn.org/ (Vermont Community Thermal Networks) 2/1/24 Show info Bird: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/identifying-bird-flight Report, Together March and Rally for Justice Guest: VT Senator Becca White chair of the Vermont Climate Solutions Caucus Are we on track for meeting the Affordable Heat Act goals? Should the electricity providers be allowed to maintain a complete monopoly? How can the public gain a bigger say? Keeping community solar an option Legislation update? https://www.volts.wtf/p/one-easy-way-to-boost-the-grid-upgrade
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1/25 Show info *https://vtecostudies.org/blog/field-guide-to-january-2024/ *Owl calls: Bard, first track: https://www.
Rally and March for Justice: Saturday January 27, 2024 1-3pm
Meet at Montpelier City Hall – March to the Vermont Statehouse * Recycling EV batteries: https://www.volts.wtf/p/electrifying-battery-recycling?utm_source=podcast- * Tesla’s thin film PV: https://eightify.app/summary/technology-and-innovation/tesla-unveils-revolutionary-solar-panels-for-2024-renewable-energy
Recording of show:
1/17 Show info https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/birds-love-sunflowers Early Universe is not as expected. Web Telescope explorations are causing a rethink of the theory general of relativity. https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-oldest-black-hole#:~:text=The%20ravenous%20black%20hole%20that,black%20holes%20grew%20so%20rapidly.&text=A%20team%20of%20astronomers%20has,feasts%20upon%20its%20host%20galaxy. more anomalies Guest Jennifer Byrne, head of the White River Conservation district. Fill in the questionnaire https://www.whiterivernrcd.org/ 1/11 Show Info Ecosystems reign: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/seabirds-trees-and-coral Guest: “Skeeter”-Michael https://www.extremetech.com/science/newly-discovered-ring-of-galaxies-threatens-our-understanding-of-the-universe, permaculturalist extraordinaire of https://friendsofthetrees.net/ Tools for accelerating the process of regeneration. and Herbs: https://friendsofthetrees.net/content/friends-of-the-trees-botanicals-2019-catalog-fresh-and-dry-herbs More of Skeeter’s confrences: https://www.nwherbalfair.com/ A teaching guide of environmental songs: https://www.laurencecole.com/ First Night groop environmental sing Port twsend WA https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H0jmUMvexYPEcyh72CHhmMCusZwCkzOq/view?usp=sharing 1/4/2024 show info Now is the Time to Act: https://potentialenergycoalition.org/global-report/ https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/great-horned-owls-nest plants cool the planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-oJyInmTTo
12/29 Show Info https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/mair-marsiglio-therapeutic-bird-walks Book: Climate Optimism by Zahra Biabani Lots of ways we are overcoming especially in the courts. Words of advice for personal action from marine biologist Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Ask: 1) WHAT BRINGS YOU JOY? 2) WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT? 3) WHAT WORK NEEDS DOING? Guest: Seth Itscan of soil4climate.org telling of COPS 28
12/21 Show info https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/tokens-affection Climate is teaching us “Change is Real”. Second major flood event, serious power outages as we come into winter seem a new normal. Lake Champlain is 101% above normal at 97′ with the all time record of 99.9′ in 2021. https://www.weather.gov/btv/lakeLevel?year=2021 Guest: Sophie Howe: Dubbed “The Minister of the Future ” for Whales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9IpD408t3c Their 6 pillars test for making decisions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9IpD408t3c 12/14 Show info https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/ding-dong-ditched Cop 28 is short on teeth to turn the tide, we did get people talking and aspiring. See James Hansons state of climate:https://mailchi.mp/caa/global-warming-acceleration-el-nino-measuring-stick-looks-good?e=700b1c2ef4 Guest Jason Hill of the VT Center for Ecostudies, The power of diversity in nature and citizen science. https://vtecostudies.org/blog/big-data-for-biodiversity-vermont-atlas-of-life-helps-gbif-org-surpass-1-billion-species-occurrences/ https://www.inaturalist.org/ get your phone app here.
12/7 Show info https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/wrens-north-south Recent Communications from James Hanson
- December 7, 2023: “A Miracle Will Occur” Is Not Sensible Climate Policy
- November 10, 2023: How We Know that Global Warming is Accelerating and that the Goal of the Paris Agreement is Dead
- November 8, 2023: Global warming in the pipeline Oxford Open Climate Change, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2023, kgad008, published
Our Guest Jon Erickson of the Gund institute UVM on circular economy and Vermont Prosperity Project Additional info: Donut hole -circular economy https://youtu.be/XTABPG1k63w?si=kUS_u0klzDguuxq3 Sophie Howe, director of Whales National Futures Program https://youtu.be/XTABPG1k63w?si=kUS_u0klzDguuxq3
Recording of this show:
11/30 Show info https://www.birdnote.org/
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:
https://vhcb.org/our-programs/VCSI
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:
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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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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.
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)
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802-793-3270 http://350vermont.org/ 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 Bird courses from Macaulay-Cornell 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.
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