Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - a physician who argues Americans are harmed by too much medical care, and an environmental advocate on possible Vermont legislation on energy and other issues in 2018.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Lauren Hierl is director of Vermont Conservation Voters. She’ll describe some of the 2018 legislative priorities of a range of Vermont environmental organizations with regard to shared natural resources, the character of our communities, and Vermonters’ health. One of the battles is over whether to use money from Volkswagen’s settlement for cheating on emissions tests to fund “clean diesel” or moving transportation off of fossil fuels altogether.
http://vermontconservationvoters.com/core-issues/

When the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology issued guidelines last month recommending lower blood pressure guidelines, Vermont-based physician Gilbert Welch objected that following them is likely to lead to over-medication and maybe even more falls and broken bones in the elderly. As an advocate of less medicine and living a more healthy life, he is also skeptical about cancer screening and flu vaccines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/opinion/blood-pressure-guidelines.html

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

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