September 8, 2015

Geoengineering Our Climate Is Happening Now – And There Is A Problem

In this week’s featured GREEN MOUNTAIN NOISE story, veteran publisher Ian Baldwin takes a close look at geoengineering in the United States – a subject rarely […]
October 12, 2015

Chelsea Green Publishing Celebrates THIRTY Years!

Our favorite Vermont-based independent book publishing company, Chelsea Green, turns thirty this year. We caught up with co-founders Margo and Ian Baldwin about their book-driven adventures, life […]
December 14, 2015

Inter States: Emerging Disorder, by Ralph Meima

This week, we feature Vermont novelist Ralph Meima’s provocative look at one possible future for the 21st century United States. His sprawling new novel INTER STATES, […]
December 22, 2015

Vermont, Cannabis, and “Exceptionalism,” by Eli Harrington (OP/ED)

  Publisher’s note: Read the Vermont Cannabis Collaborative (VTCC)’s entire “What Cannabis Can Do For Vermont” report – legalize, regulate, tax, derive benefits – online at their web […]
March 19, 2016

Are Vermonters Suffering From Our “Normalcy Bias”?

A friend of mine says a lot of Vermonters are about to get a rude awakening over the next couple of weeks as the traditional sugaring […]
March 24, 2016

Greening Vermont, Building a More Resilient Future

Here in Vermont, as everywhere, the built environment has a vast impact on the natural environment, human health, and the economy. 40% of our energy consumption […]
March 28, 2016

Psyching Out Climate Change: “Grounding Hope” for Vermont’s Future

Almost all of what we hear in the news today, in relation to the environment, tends to be on the topic of the anthropogenic degradation of […]
April 4, 2016

We Speak For The Bees! Vermont Hives Up To Address Global Honeybee Crisis

  On Vermont’s Route 7 running north to south, travelers pass farm fields of alfalfa, cows, a single camel (true!), and thousands of bees. Vermont is […]
April 4, 2016

What The Frack, Vermont? Rising Tide VT Continues Stalwart Pipeline Opposition

BURLINGTON – Anna Rose of Rising Tide VT is perched on a table next to an LCD projector in the meeting space of the Vermont Workers’ […]
April 6, 2016

Dam It, Vermont! Should We Buy TransCanada’s 13 Hydro Dams?

Gov. Peter Shumlin speaks, flanked by (l-r) House Speaker Shap Smith, Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell and Secretary of Administration Justin Johnson. Gov. Peter Shumlin […]