December 12, 2015

Open Letter to Vermont Governor Shumlin: Halt The Gas Pipeline (ACTIVISM)

Dear Governor Shumlin, We are leaders in Vermont—business owners, nonprofit executives, faith leaders, agriculture stewards, academics, and community representatives—who have followed the saga of the Addison Natural Gas […]
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 […]
February 13, 2016

Cheap Oil and Imminent Collapse: Connecting the Dots

The signs of oil’s madcap price collapse are everywhere. Global markets now behave like digital roller-coasters from China to Europe. Schlumberger, the largest oil field service firm, cut 10,000 jobs in 2016 and another 20,000 jobs last year. The champion of hydraulic fracturing posted a loss of $1 billion, too.
March 8, 2016

Beyond Prohibition: Why Consider Cannabis Regulation for Vermont?

As the House considers a bill that would end the prohibition of cannabis for adults, I am keeping an open mind. Prohibition has been ineffective and […]
March 18, 2016

Tree Base’ing: Vermont’s Logging Industry – Past, Present and Future

Publisher’s Note: As 21st century fossil fuel energy resources dwindle in the Age of Peak Oil, Vermont will become more reliant once again on its forests, […]
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

Cannabis Regulation for Vermont: TEN Good Reasons

2VR has been working on Vermont cannabis regulation for more than a year, in conversation with a wide variety of Vermont stake holding groups. Summarizing one […]
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 […]