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My 2 cents: Fueling a smart climate strategy with VT Rep. Kathleen James

My 2 cents: Fueling a smart climate strategy with VT Rep. Kathleen James

Kathleen James represents the Manchester, Arlington, Sandgate and part of Sunderland in Bennington-4 district in the Vermont House of Representatives. She serves on the Education Committee and is an active member of the Climate Caucus. I live in an old farmhouse, built sometime around the Civil War. Though it’s been renovated many times, the best […]

Warren King receives the 2017 Arthur Gibb Award

Warren King receives the 2017 Arthur Gibb Award

Vermont Natural Resources Council with Bill McKibben Present the Arthur Gibb Award to Warren King   Vermont Natural Resource Council (VNRC) is excited to present this year’s Arthur Gibb Award for Individual Leadership to Warren King, a lifelong conservationist, at VNRC’s annual meeting on Thursday, September 21, 2017 at The Kirk Alumni Center at Middlebury, in Middlebury […]

Vermont Leads Nation in Solar Jobs Per Capita, Again

Vermont Leads Nation in Solar Jobs Per Capita, Again

Montpelier, VT – A new report by The Solar Foundation cites Vermont as a national leader in the solar industry, ranking third for the number of solar jobs per capita.  Between 2015 to 2016, solar jobs in Vermont grew by 29 percent, with an additional 400 solar jobs created in the state last year. Each solar job means that a skilled craftsman, a recent […]

VSECU and Milk Money Collaborate

VSECU and Milk Money Collaborate

Partnership marks the first initiative under VSECU’s newly launched vision, focused on maximizing the credit union’s social, environmental and financial impact throughout Vermont (UPDATES to the story follow) VSECU, a credit union for everybody in Vermont, today announced a partnership with Vermont-based equity crowdfunding company Milk Money L3C, designed to empower entrepreneurialism and drive local […]

U.S. Leadership and the Historic Paris Agreement to Combat Climate Change

U.S. Leadership and the Historic Paris Agreement to Combat Climate Change

From The White House – Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release – December 12, 2015 U.S. LEADERSHIP AND THE HISTORIC PARIS AGREEMENT TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE Today, more than 190 countries came together to adopt the most ambitious climate change agreement in history. The Paris Agreement establishes a long term, durable global framework to reduce […]

Vermont solar installer, Suncommon, Divests 401Ks from Fossil Fuels

Vermont solar installer, Suncommon, Divests 401Ks from Fossil Fuels

SunCommon, a Vermont Benefit Corporation, has chosen to divest its 401k portfolio from fossil fuels. The divestment announcement was followed by a staff-wide educational presentation by Maeve McBride of 350VT and Dan Quinlan of Divestor.org. In keeping with SunCommon’s legal charter that directs the company to attend to the triple bottom line of people, planet […]

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