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 […]
April 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders’ “Pie In The Sky” Platform? Nonsense.

Does Bernie Sanders’s economic program amount to pie-in-the-sky nonsense? The short answer is no. All of his major proposals are grounded in solid economic reasoning and […]
April 7, 2016

Pentagon Pork Pushback: Vermont’s Winooski City Council Continues F-35 Legal Fight

An early version of the F-35 takes off from Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo: COURTESY)  WINOOSKI – The Winooski City Council unanimously approved spending $5,000 more on a lawsuit the city […]
April 12, 2016

ReSOURCE Burlington: An #Unlearning Business in the Heart of Vermont’s Queen City

Burlington, Vermont undoubtedly hosts a variety of businesses, many of which encourage rapid and thoughtless consumption. But hidden among name brand retailers and developed shopping centers […]
April 13, 2016

“Shwag Bag Of Doom” – Welcome to “Cluster Fuck Nation.”

Publisher’s note: We’ve channeled JH Kunstler since our first issue of Vermont Commons back in 2005. “The problems facing the U.S. of Empire,” he notes here, […]
April 13, 2016

1%FTP: Meet the Vermont-Based Global Network 1% For The Planet

Today, not only are more and more individuals focusing their efforts on environmental issues, but whole universities, cities, and businesses are also beginning to work toward […]
April 14, 2016

Here Comes The Sun: Vermont’s SunCommon Generating Quiet Energy Revolution

In 2011, Vermont released their goal to receive 90% of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2050. As of 2013, the state’s main energy […]
April 18, 2016

Net Metering for a Post-Utility Age? Vermonters Move Towards Decentralized Energy Generation

As a Vermont Electric Co-op (VEC) member, I found CEO Christine Hallquist’s recent commentary “Pricing Renewable Energy” as disappointing as it is intentionally misleading. We know […]