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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vermont Yankee Radioactive Plume

This week, Peter Shumlin, President Pro Tem of the Vermont State Senate, announced that the Senate will vote on whether Vermont Yankee should be closed on schedule.

The first vote will be this week and the final vote will be next week! After years of work by thousands of Vermonters, this is it!

Click here to send a message to your Senator.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Ripton, Vermont - February 14, 2010 - Vermont State Senate independent candidate Robert Wagner has exposed the deep links between the offices of Bernie Sanders, Monsanto and the USDA.  A Monsanto insider, lobbyist & litigator, Tom Vilsack is the US Secretary of Agriculture and gave the keynote speech at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) convention yesterday.

Do you know who will deliver the keynote speech at NOFA, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont this weekend? A Monsanto man who was put in charge of the USDA. Yet another case of the fox entrusted to guard the hen house. Remember James Watt?

This is a slap-in-the-face to every small farmer in Vermont.

Today I learned that I have been censored from asking any questions in the staged Q&A session after the Monsanto keynote speech.

Ripton, Vermont – January 28, 2010 – Vermont State Senate
independent candidate Robert Wagner has come out in favour of
decommissioning the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Reactor.

Possible future for Vermont. Unless.“Relicencing a nuclear reactor is not a decision to be made in the margin”, Wagner said, referring to the Legislature’s recent examination of whether the billable cost per kWh would be competitive with other energy sources. “You don’t play with the public health and our future, on cost alone. This is a decision to make with the heart.”

This is a most provocative new GQ article exploring the potential public health consequences of our new wireless world, written by independent journalist Christopher Ketcham. I've included an embed from a new documentary film called FULL SIGNAL.