environment

African Variety Show: Climate Change and Vermont's Climate Change Action Office 05/23/2024

From Dr. Wetchi:

Host Dr. Jules Wetchi chats with Sophi Veltrop and Kashka Orlow, members from the Climate Change Action Office. Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow.

Sophi Veltrop joined the Climate Action Office in 2023 to support community engagement and communications efforts. In this role she collects and shares public input about climate action and climate-related policy with decision-makers. Her role also includes making State of Vermont climate information meaningful and accessible to Vermonters. Sophi’s background is in non-profit communications and engagement. She has worked for various land conservation organizations and in extracurricular education. She lives in Woodbury.

Kashka Orlow is a consultant with the Consensus Building Institute, working to support the efforts of the Climate Action Office. She is an activist and a mother. As an immigrant herself, she can personally relate to many of the struggles and challenges faced by immigrant and low-income communities. Her goal is to help uplift the voices of those who are not represented in state and local government. She lives in the Old North End in Burlington with her two daughters.

For more information visit: www.climatechange.vermont.gov | www.mileagesmartvt.org | Call 802-404-2729 to reach the Climate Action Office

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Hayley Jones 05/07/2024

From Melinda Moulton:

Hayley Jones is the Vermont and New Hampshire Director at Slingshot. They are a community organizer, interpreter, and queer poet based out of Burlington, Vermont. As a founding member of Slingshot, they work side by side with frontline communities to tackle environmental injustices and build the world we want to see.

For more information visit: www.slingshot.org

Climate Action Collective Networking Event 05/05/2024

From the Climate Action Collective:

The Climate Action Collective is a multi-collegiate group based in Burlington, VT, sponsored by 350VT. As a student-led, grass-roots climate action group, students of the C.A.C have recognized your commitment and passion for environmentalism, and encourage you to meet everyone else who's doing equally amazing work. The key to achieving a healthier Vermont is by creating a strong network of like-minded, environmentally passionate people - that's why YOU’RE invited.

The Climate Action Collective is dedicated to mitigating the effects of the climate crisis for the Burlington, Vermont community and greater Vermont area. We are passionate about connecting all Burlington students in the fight for environmental justice. We fight for clean resources and sustainable energy for all people in Vermont.

For more information visit: www.350vermont.org/college-organizing

In the World of Winooski: Green Up Day in Winooski 04/23/2024

From the City of Winooski:

Host and Mayor Kristine Lott chats with Kate Alberghini, Executive Director of Green Up Vermont, to learn about Green Up Day Vermont and how you can green up Winooski this May 4.

For more information visit: www.winooskivt.gov

Third Annual Earth Day Celebration on Church Street 04/20/2024

From the Church Street Marketplace:

Our newest tradition, Earth Day on the Marketplace, is a celebration of the community’s work to help protect our planet. Enjoy interactive activities, educational games, food, and music as you connect with local organizations and learn about their environmental work.

This event takes place the weekend nearest to Earth Day each year.

For more information visit: www.churchstmarketplace.com

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Daniel Hecht 01/12/2024

From Melinda Moulton:

Daniel Hecht is an author, environmentalist, musician, non-profit organizational development consultant, and educator.

For more information visit: http://www.danielhecht.com/

Protecting our Pollinators: A Lakeside Chat with Charlie Nardozzi and Samantha Alger 08/31/2023

From VPIRG:

VPIREF hosts a Protect our Pollinators educational event at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington, featuring VPIRG Executive Director Paul Burns, Samantha Alger of the UVM Bee Lab, and Charlie Nardozzi, host of All Things Gardening on Vermont Public. Join us to learn more about how you can play a pivotal role in protecting pollinators from deadly pesticides, and how to create habitats they can thrive in.

Co-Sponsors of this event include the Audubon Society, Lintilhac Foundation, and UVM Bee Lab.

For more information visit: https://www.vpirg.org/news/popvt-event/

Look Tell Me How You Breathe Dance Theater by Loom Dance Company 07/30/2023

From Loom Dance Company:

Loom Ensemble brings together a racially diverse team of professional dancers, musicians and theatermakers, to invite you into an outdoors experience of Dance Theater for Collective Liberation. Loom’s piece “Tell Me How You Breathe,” is a new musical about climate catastrophe that brings us to a world where the climate crisis has progressed slightly more than our present day, to play out the interrelationship of institutional power structures and ancestral healing practices. Playful humor, live music, and beautiful storytelling help us lean in to meet these pressing issues.

The story centers on the lungs, as the site of interconnectedness and the organ of grief. “Who gets to breathe freely, fully, with ease,” is a necessary question for our time, right at the intersection of eco-activism, social justice, and public health. With the nourishment of participatory ceremony and song, Loom grounds this political conversation in the physical body, to incite the radical act of collectively imagining a more just and beautiful world.

Congresswoman Becca Balint: Highlight Investments from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda for Collaborative Conservation in Vermont 07/07/2023

From the Office of Becca Balint:

On July 7, as part of the Biden-Harris administration's Investing in America tour, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland travels to Burlington, Vermont, to join Rep. Becca Balint and Senator Peter Welch as they highlight historic investments that are helping drive collaborative conservation initiatives in Vermont and across the nation.

Investments from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda are enabling the Department of the Interior to play a leading role in the transition to a clean energy economy, advancing key habitat restoration, land resilience and water projects, and securing environmental justice for historically disadvantaged communities.

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Robert Costanza 06/29/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Before joining University College London, Robert was a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. In 2013 he was a professor at Portland State University in Oregon from 2010 to 2012. Costanza was the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, Costanza was Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor at University of Maryland's Center for Estuarine and Environmental Science, at Chesapeake Biological Lab on Solomons Island MD.

He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics and he was founding Chief Editor of the society's journal, Ecological Economics from its inception in 1989, until 2002. Costanza is the founding editor-in-chief of Solutions - a popular hybrid academic journal/magazine. He currently serves on the editorial board of eight other international academic journals and is past president of the International Society for Ecosystem Health. He is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont; and a co-chair of the Ecosystem Services Partnership.