Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - the Cross Vermont Trail celebrates a milestone; an electrical utility is powering its customers in part with a huge battery; Conservation Law Foundation is focusing this week on living with zero waste.
9:00 - 10:00 am
On Friday afternoon, there will be a ribbon-cutting and celebration of the opening of Montpelier's Siboinebi bike path, with a trip to the site of a planned bike/ped bridge over the Winooski for the Cross Vermont Trail. Greg Western, director of the Cross Vermont Trail Association, explains how the partially completed trail is used now and how the bridge will make a difference.
https://www.diginvt.com/events-in-vermont/montpelier-path-ribbon-cutting-caledonia-spirits/?[...]-08
Vermont Electric Co-op has installed a huge battery, which looks from the outside like a couple shipping containers, to power its customers. Not during outages, but when demand is at its peak. The utility is saving money and cutting greenhouse emissions by using the battery instead of firing up gas-powered generators during peak use. Could big honkin' batteries play a significant role in a renewable energy future, too, by providing renewable power when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing? CEO Rebecca Towne will talk about why the state's largest locally owned electrical utility is excited about battery power and what they've learned since they installed this one in July.
https://vtdigger.org/2019/10/28/vec-partners-celebrate-success-of-the-co-ops-first-utility-s[...]em/
The Conservation Law Foundation has declared this week a Zero Waste Challenge. "Participants will be challenged to use reusable containers, avoid plastic packaging, ditch disposable products and take advantage of composting." How easy is it to achieve zero waste in our plastic-cluttered society? What can you do to reduce waste? John Hite, zero waste policy analyst for CLF, has some answers.
https://vtdigger.org/2019/10/29/clf-launches-zero-waste-challenge/
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.
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