I want to alert you to a community event that is happening that I hope some will be interested in attending. By "community" I mean the larger bio-region that includes Five Sisters, Burlington and Chittenden County. This is an opportunity to learn a new language when discussing climate change and acting locally, and help us think and act differently. Please let me know if you are going as we'd like to have a carpool. Here is the information:

Join this community conversation on November 2, from 8:30am – 1pm at Mount Abraham Union High School in Bristol.

We're in a time of climate crisis. The natural communities we live in and depend on are under intense stress. Essential parts of our home grounds—namely air, water, and wildlife—are unbounded and unowned, shared by all of us. They are commons. We the people have the right and responsibility as commoners to care well for the life-sustaining commons here at home.

Much good commoning work is underway here in Vermont's Center-West Ecoregion. We can do much more. Join Vermont Family Forests for a conversation on November 2 as we take stock of commons conservation in our home place and imagine effective, creative, collaborative next steps. Suggested donation of $15, lunch and t-shirt included. Visit www.familyforests.org for details and registration.

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