Relocalizing VT: Rethinking the 5th Amendment

Past event
Aug 17, 2017, 9 to 10:30 AM

Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - revisiting some interesting guests from previous broadcasts.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Eric Zencey argues that Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution needs rethinking in a world running up against resource limits. Part of the Fifth prohibits the government from "taking" private property without "just compensation." The problem: under the current Supreme Court, ecologically wise decisions about wetlands, barrier islands, and drainage swales require compensation to landowners that makes preservation prohibitively expensive.

Vermont author Didi Pershouse’s new book is Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities. Pershouse is a long-time student of the connection between environmental sustainability and health care.

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

Now with on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at www.wgdr.org/on-demand

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