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As I stood waiting for my phone to charge outside the historical apartment building on West End Avenue in New York City at the biggest climate march in U.S. history, I watched the crowd take the form of a long line stretching in either direction as far as the eye could see.
I marveled at the size and at the good humor of the marchers, who had been waiting for two hours to even begin due to the unexpected surge in numbers. Organizers expected at most 150,000; instead, our numbers swelled to more than 300,000!
I was proud of my fellow Vermonters. I had awakened at 4:30 a.m. from a delighted chirp on my mobile phone, alerting me to a text message: “The Burlington buses just left!”
That alert came from Maeve McBride, the statewide coordinator for 350.org, the global organization founded by Middlebury College scholar Bill McKibben and his students nine years ago as a winter-term study group. The state chapter, 350 Vermont, is one of its strongest affiliates.
When I first moved up to Bonnyvale Road about 15 years ago, my then-8-year-old son, Joey, and our Fresh Air Fund camper, Punna, went down to the neighboring horse farm to meet the horses and ask if they could “do some work.” A few minutes later, the boys came...
Hearing a random song on the radio from an old Broadway musical the other day reminded me of a scene from my family album of memories. There we were, the five Cummings girls, all lined up on a hot summer night: the oldest three in our muumuus, the two...
On Sunday, April 29, in Green River and in Guilford, 300 trees were planted by a grassroots group of local citizenry and students, led by landscape designer and Green River resident Dina Iris Kail, and made possible with grants from the Connecticut River Watershed Alliance and New England Public Radio's “Root For Your River Programs” to replant trees along the Tropical Storm Irene–damaged Green River watershed. A big thanks to Nasami Farm, the New England Wildflower Society, and the Hampton-Hampshire...
