History

Founded in 2005, Vermont Commons is a newspaper by and for the citizens of Vermont. We are solutions-oriented, non-partisan, and interested in promoting ongoing and vigorous debate about a more sustainable future for the once and future republic of Vermont, and the world as a whole.

Mission

Vermont Commons newspaper and web site publish articles and opinion written by citizen journalists doing the good work required of us on a wide variety of fronts - energy, agriculture, local currency, education, land use, localvores, media and more – by writers as diverse as Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson, Robin McDermott, Frank Bryan, Kirkpatrick Sale, Catherine Austin Fitts, Peter Forbes, George Schenck and James Howard Kunstler. Some of our writers advocate nonviolent secession, others are more critical, while others are on the fence. All of our writers, though, are fierce champions of localism and decentralization. These visionary thinkers are helping us imagine a more sustainable Vermont future into which we can invest our time, energy, and financial and spiritual resources.

Our Approach

• We at Vermont Commons believe that the United States is no longer a republic governed by its citizens, but an Empire that is essentially ungovernable.
• We believe that a sovereign state's right to nonviolently secede, first championed in the United States by the citizens of 19th century New England, is a right that demands re-exploration in the 21st century.
• We believe that a 21st century Vermont, working in concert with our neighbors and the rest of the world, may better be able to feed, power, educate and care for its citizens as an independent 21st century republic than as one of fifty states within the U.S. Empire, given the new century's emerging realities: climate change, global peak oil, and an "endless war on terror" for "full spectrum dominance" being waged by the U.S. government for geo-strategic control of the world's remaining fossil fuel energy resources.

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Long live the "Untied States."

Free Vermont.