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The ongoing “sit-in” protests in Washington D.C., which resulted in the arrest of environmentalist author William McKibben, Vermont Law School professor Gus Speth and hundreds of others, wrapped up on Saturday.
McKibben, author of the seminal book about climate change, The End of Nature , is also the founder of the activist group Tar Sands Action, and Speth, a Vermont Law School environmental lawyer and activist, were among the first to arrested for protesting against a permit for a $7 billion pipeline that would run from Alberta Canada to the eastern part of Texas. They were released on Aug. 22.
Time in jail – and even Hurricane Irene – didn't deter the activists.
“It was grim,” McKibben said, describing the couple of nights he spent in prison. “The block was hot and a little scary with no beds, just metal slabs, to sleep on.”...
Former Vermont Govs. Thomas P. Salmon, Madeleine Kunin, Howard Dean and James Douglas joined incumbent Gov. Peter Shumlin in a roundtable discussion on Aug. 15 to talk about what it is to be a political leader and how one of Congress' biggest problems is its unwillingness to work together.
New data shows Vermont has dropped from third to fourth - behind New Hampshire, Minnesota and Massachusetts - in a nationwide ranking of the well-being and health of children, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Book, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The project looks at 10...
Three studies commissioned by the High Meadows Fund concluded that if Vermonters were to retrofit their homes, they have the potential of saving $800 to $1,100 a year on their energy bills. The studies from three Vermont nonprofit groups were released last week at the home of Marc and Tina Companion in South Burlington. The Companions recently invested $12,000 into making their house more energy efficient by retrofitting their home's air sealing, insulation and windows. They expect their energy bills...
It's that time of the decade again. Vermont's political boundaries for House representatives and Senate members are being redrawn to match new demographic information from the U.S. Census. The process is known as apportionment. District lines for members of the General Assembly are subject to new interpretation, based on shifts in population. Areas of Vermont that have a growing number of residents, such as Burlington and towns in the Upper Valley, could gain more seats, while those municipalities with fewer...
