Environment

Second Annual Green Up the Pine Street Barge Canal RAW 05/06/2023

Raw footage of the 2023 clean up.

From the organizer:

You are invited to a Barge Canal Green Up Day Festival!

The 2nd annual Green Up the Barge Canal on Saturday, May 6, 9 AM to 3 PM. Last year, 140 people showed up and removed a mountain of trash that had been blanketing the land for decades. This year, in addition to working together to care for the land by clearing trash, we have activities to honor our ongoing partnership with the land.

Housing in Vermont with Thomas Chittenden - UVM Intern Podcast 05/05/2023

Housing in Vermont is becoming more expensive and harder to find than ever before. Why is that? UVM student Waseya Lawton sits down with State Senator and professor at the UVM Grossman School of Business, Thomas Chittenden, to find out why.

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Cameron Davis - Emeritus of Art, Painting, Drawing 04/27/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Cameron (Cami) Davis (b. 1954 Bridgeport, CT.) is a former Senior Lecturer and teaches Painting, Drawing, Perspectives on Making, and Environmental Art. She received her M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute in 1981 and B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Vermont, in 1976; with postgraduate studies in ecological theory from Schumacher College, Devon, UK in 1998 and 2015. Davis has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, and has exhibited throughout Vermont, New York, and San Diego. She is in private and public collections nationally.

Davis is the recipient of the Lee Krasner – Jackson Pollock Foundation grant for painting, and Argosy Foundation and Puffin Foundation grants for painting in collaboration with composer Sam Guarnaccia. She considers her paintings, installations and community environmental art projects to be her primary vehicle for exploring issues of conscious perception as fundamental to navigating life in a warming and warring world. Her community art activist projects have followed the climate change movement for the last decade. She is interested in exploring wholistic aesthetics as a contributing factor towards cultivating the transition to a life affirming future. Davis is a member of the ecoartnetwork.org.

Chittenden Solid Waste District 04/26/2023

For more information on the Chittenden Solid Waste District and current procedures and meeting dates, please visit cswd.net/about-cswd/cswd-board-of-commissioners.

Second Annual Earth Day Celebration on Church Street 04/22/2023

Various Organizations celebrate Earth Day with ways the community can help combat climate change.

Interview with Gene Bergman - UVM Intern Podcast 04/19/2023

City councilor Gene Bergman sits down with UVM Student Evan Fredericks to reflect on his career as a city councilor and senior assistant attorney for Burlington. Gene discusses his ideas for progressive change in the city, from transportation, to climate change, to policing.

Community Action Day at Champlain Street Park 04/19/2023

From CVOEO:

The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO) hosts Community Action Day to help revitalize Champlain Street Park, one of the few remaining public green spaces in Burlington’s South End neighborhood. The event offers the community an opportunity to come together in recognition of Earth Day and Fair Housing Month.

Community members come together to hear about how housing security and community agency in the spaces they live contribute to thriving, inclusive communities. Fair Housing Project team members share a brief introduction to Fair Housing Month, and highlight other Fair Housing Month community conversations and activities for people to plug into. Participants enjoy lunch, conversations about housing inclusion, and help clean up the park. HeART & Home Kits are available as well! Join us for this moment of caring for this community space.

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Alec Webb, President of Shelburne Farms 04/17/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Alec was the General Manager of Shelburne Farms before being elected President of the Farms in 1988. He helped plan and coordinate the development of Shelburne Farms as a nonprofit organization, and has been active in local land use planning, agriculture, and environmental education projects for many years. In 2006, Alec was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Middlebury College. Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin honored Webb in 1990 for his extraordinary contributions to Vermont, and he received the Vermont Land Trust’s Richard W. Carbin Community Conservation Award in 1998.

Special Event at the Vermont State House - Rally for the Planet 04/14/2023

From ORCA Media:

Special Event at the Vermont State House

Education and Enrichment for Everyone: The Ethan Allen Homestead: Preserving Burlington's History and Community 04/14/2023

Angela Grove discusses the long history surrounding the discovery and preservation of the Ethan Allen Homestead.

For more information visit: eeevermont.org

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!