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Voices of Independence


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Vermont Commons is a print journal and online forum for exploring the idea of Vermont independence – political, economic, social, and spiritual. We welcome your letters, thoughts, and participation.

Issue 34 - Mud Season 2010

EDITORIAL: Seven For The Senate...And Counting. (Dennis Morrisseau)

Vermont needs to hike up her boots and cut herself loose.  We will do this in town after town after town. Mingle and talk and take names.  Pass the hat at the end, for $5 or $10 per, is the hope...Dennis Morrisseau is a pro-independence candidate for the Vermont Senate, from Pawlet (Rutland County), and organizer of the "Thirty for Senate" 2010 campaign. 

 

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Chellis Glendinning: SEXession - Where Are the Women? (FEATURE)

In the end, women may not be the sole proprietors of humanity’s connectedness and caring, but, needless to say, we surely have something essential to offer the work of healing and survival in today’s sad, desperate world...Chellis Glendinning is an advisor to the Second Vermont Republic, a psychotherapist, and the author of five books that explore the “personalness” of the political.  She lives in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

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Gary Flomenhoft: Vermont’s Message in a Bottle - Bottling Groundwater Rent for Public Revenue (FEATURE)

In evaluating the resources comprising the “Commonwealth” of Vermont, we made a disturbing discovery: Most of the valuable resources in Vermont, including minerals, groundwater, surface water, hydro sites, airwaves, etc., are owned by out-of state corporations.  Vermont is a banana republic without the bananas...Gary Flomenhoft teaches energy technology and policy at the University of Vermont.

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Letters to the Editor: MUD SEASON 2010 (Vermont, Taxes, Yankee, and More...)

Raising Taxes in Vermont:  Sweden’s Chilling Warning

Editor, Vermont Commons:

What Vermonters can expect with a Swedish-style healthcare system?  With recent budget shortfalls and discussion of raising taxes to fill the gap it appears timely to describe what happened in Sweden as taxes climbed.  It is known in Sweden as the great “Brain Drain,” and the country may never recover.

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Sucosh Norton: ENVY’able Alternatives - Electrifying A 21st Century Vermont Without Re-licensing Yankee (FEATURE)

It is realistic to think that the generating capacity of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee (ENVY) can be economically, environmentally and cost-effectively replaced in the near term by a diversified strategy of conservation, market purchases, and local renewable resources here...John (Sucosh) Norton is the Chief Operating Officer for NRG Systems, a global leader in the manufacture of wind- measurement equipment, based in Hinesburg.  John serves on the Climate Change Oversight Committee for the State of Vermont and has worked in

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Carl Etnier: TRANSITION TIMES - Village-building Convergence Brings Transition Town Back to Its Roots

Creating an Energy Descent Action Plan, launching local currencies, organizing energy co-ops: these are all important parts of Transition work....Carl Etnier is director of Peak Oil Awareness in Montpelier. He hosts two radio shows and blogs on the subjects of Peak Oil and relocalizing.

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Anne Galloway (Vt.Digger): Behind Bars, For Profit - Should Vermont Continue To Privatize Our Prisons?

The question remaining is whether it will be any different if the physicians and mental health experts are paid, instead, by a profit-taking corporation...Anne Galloway is the editor of vtDigger.org, a nonprofit web-based news journal reporting in-depth on Vermont issues and events.

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THE GREENNECK: Disconnection Meditation

Off to Cali for a few days, a work-related trip that promises to be nasty, brutish, and short...‘The Greenneck’ lives and writes in the rusted-out shell of a one-ton Chevy pickup somewhere in Cabot.

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Ben Falk: HOMESTEAD SECURITY - Adaptive Design for Climate (and other) Changes

Good design is design for change. Good design is structurally diverse and not dependent on any single element for its overall success...Ben Falk grows food and fuel in the lower Mad River Valley, and develops post-petroleum human habitats with Whole Systems Design, LLC.

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Will Lindner: CROSSLOTS - Little House in South Burlington

There’s a little town house in South Burlington where six tons of CO2 isn’t going into the atmosphere anymore. There are houses all over Vermont that emit dozens of tons of carbon. The question that confronts each of us is, where would we rather live? Will Lindner is a mandolin player, writer, and editor living in Barre. He serves as managing editor for Vermont Commons.

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Thomas Naylor: VERMONT LIBRE - 350.Org / Copenhagen or Bust

There is a problem with the McKibben paradigm. Politically speaking, it is unbelievably naïve...Thomas Naylor, economist, businessman, and author, is co-founder of the Second Vermont Republic.

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Kirkpatrick Sale: DISPERSIONS - Secession Is In The Air

It just feels as if more people are following this line of thinking these days than… than… any time since, say, 1865...Kirkpatrick Sale, editor-at-large and author of a dozen books, including After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination (Duke), is the director of the Middlebury Institute.

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Issue 33 - Winter 2010

Issue 32 - Stick Season/Holidays 2009

Issue 31 - Autumn 2009

Issue 30 - Summer 2009

Issue 29 - Spring 2009

Issue 28 - Mud Season 2009

Issue 27 - Winter 2009

Issue 26 - Stick Season 2008

Issue 25 - Fall 2008

Issue 24 - Summer 2008

Issue 23 - Spring 2008

Issue 22 - Mud Season 2008

Issue 21 - Winter 2008

Issue 20 - Fall 2007

Issue 19 - Summer 2007

Issue 18 - Spring 2007

Issue 17 - Winter 2007

Issue 16 - Autumn 2006

Issue 15 - Summer 2006

Issue 14 - June 2006

Issue 13 - May 2006

Issue 12 - April 2006

Issue 11 - March 2006

Issue 10 - February 2006

Issue 9 - January 2006

Issue 8 - December 2005

Issue 7 - November 2005

Issue 6 - October 2005

Issue 5 - September 2005

Issue 4 - August 2005

Issue 3 - June/July 2005

Issue 2 - May 2005

Issue 1 - April 2005



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