Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - Bill McKibben will kick off this Saturday's annual gathering of leaders in Vermont's local energy groups, the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network conference at Lake Morey Resort. (It's not too late to sign up.) We'll preview some of what's happening there.
https://vecan.net/conferences/vecan-annual-conference-2017/
https://www.regonline.com/VTEnergy2018
9:00 - 10:00 am
Conference organizer Ian Hitchcock previews conference highlights.
Keynoter Michael Shank of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance talks about how to bring climate change messages home to people, and how local energy projects cut through the partisan gridlock that's on the national level. Much of what we discuss is found in an article he wrote for Huffington Post.
carbonneutralcities.org
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/12-ways-to-improve-climate-change-communications_us_5a1[...]c5f
Kate Stephenson, chair of the Montpelier Energy Advisory Committee speaks about their work to reduce energy use in municipal operations, where they've set the goal of being carbon neutral by 2030, and in the city as a whole, where their goal is 100% renewable energy by 2050.
https://www.montpelier-vt.org/412/Energy-Advisory-Committee
10:00 - 10:30 am
In Resilience Thoughts, Gene Logsdon describes ways to substitute plant products for mined materials, like the way Henry Ford made car bodies out of plasticized soy beans. In a locally told Extempo story, Dan Dolan describes what happened when he was arrested at a party celebrating the arrest and conviction of one of his housemates. 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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