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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Do Your Home Work Building a green community in the Green Mountain State	Elizabeth Sawin	16 Aug 2002	Global Citizen
At 9:30 at night the phone rings. It is my neighbor Lorie, who asks me if I'd mind stepping out onto my porch for a minute. I think I know what this is about. Up the hill on Tom and Lorie's porch there are candles burning on tables covered with the scattered remains of dinner. Children are lounging in laps. Someone is strumming a guitar. I don't know if they can see me, so I call out to them. ...
Topics: placemaking, Vermont (all these topics)

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: placemaking, Vermont (all these topics)

Nema-toads		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Nema-toads A federal appeals court upheld a Vermont law last week requiring manufacturers to label items that contain mercury. The 1998 law, the first of its kind in the United States, was challenged by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association on behalf of companies that produce fluorescent light bulbs containing mercury. NEMA argued that labeling the products would be too expensive and that Vermont's sha ...
Topics: green living, recycling, toxics, Vermont (all these topics)

States of Disgrace		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
States of Disgrace New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont may postpone for four years a requirement that automakers increase sales of electric cars to improve air quality. Two years ago, the states adopted California's standard, which mandates that by next year, 8 percent of cars sold must be much cleaner than current cars and another 2 percent must be entirely emissions-free (i.e. ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, electric vehicles, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont (all these topics)

No-fry Zone		02 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
No-fry Zone An unidentified plane flew close to the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station on Sep. 13, but fighter jets sent to track the plane down never found it, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) said yesterday. Dean and other lawmakers across the country are calling on the Bush administration to create no-fly zones around all 103 nuclear plants in the U.S., fearing that the plants are easy ...
Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, United States, Vermont (all these topics)

Green Mountin' State		19 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Green Mountin' State Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (D) said yesterday that his state can meet electricity demands for the next decade by "using renewable energy and efficiency and relying less on large fossil-fuel plants." For starters, Dean said he would probably devote $750,000 from an oil-industry settlement to solar and wind system rebates. Christine Salembier, commissioner of the state Department of Public Servi ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, Vermont (all these topics)

I Fought the Law and the Law Won How can we make environmental laws work better?	Donella H. Meadows	18 Sep 2000	Global Citizen
Now that I've suffered under one firsthand, I can understand why people hate environmental laws. On a map of our farm filed away at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is a fateful dot. It stands for an endangered Siberian Chive, observed by someone decades ago. This dot popped up when we applied under Vermont's Act 250, one of the best land use laws of the nation, to build 2 ...
Topics: Vermont, wilderness (all these topics)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Donella H. Meadows	31 Jul 2000	Global Citizen
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (known familiarly as CJD) is something you do not want to get. Your brain degenerates, piece by piece. First you feel depressed, then you have trouble coordinating. You lose sight, speech, motor control, as the disease travels through the brain. When it reaches the control centers for breathing or heartbeat, you die. Medical science has no idea how to cure or even slow it. Don't get mad. CJD used to ap ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, United Kingdom, Vermont (all these topics)

This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land	Donella H. Meadows	06 Mar 2000	Global Citizen
Last week the Vermont Environmental Board denied a permit to a developer for a project in Hartland. It was a typical interstate-exit gas-and-food stop -- the kind of place no one likes to look at but we're all glad to find when we're on a long trip and running low on fuel. Hartland's I-91 exit has no gas station, though gas and food are sold in town centers a mile or so away in either direction. The landscape at th ...
Topics: placemaking, Vermont (all these topics)

Fairway to Heaven A gardening guru gives new meaning to a golfing green	Lisa Jones	07 Dec 1999	Main Dish
In a world beset with environmental and economic horrors, a golf course is a disturbing sight. Okay, it's not as disturbing as an oil slick on Prince William Sound, or the Cuyahoga River bursting into flames, or the coral reefs off Sri Lanka bleaching and dying. Evil green monster (a traditional golf course). But the proliferation of golf courses is symptomatic of the suburbanization of once-rural p ...
Topics: green living, Vermont, wildlife (all these topics)

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