Relocalizing VT Th 9 am: Local Actions & Climate Change
Coming up Thursday morning on Goddard College Community Radio: How family forests can most effectively sequester carbon, and how a Vermont selectboard member is looking to prepare locally for system collapse.
9:00 - 10:00 am
One half of a tree's weight consists of stored carbon, and more than 80 percent of New England is forested, so landscapes here have a globally important role in sequestering carbon and reducing the impact of climate change. With families and individuals owning most of New England's forests, how can they manage the forests for climate change, and what can the rest of us do to help that happen? Paul Catanzaro of UMass Amherst will be speaking on this topic at Friday's conference at UVM of the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, and he'll preview his thoughts with us.
https://www.UVM.edu/femc/cooperative/conference/2019/agenda
masswoods.org/carbon
Simon Dennis serves on the selectboard in Hartford and is part of Resilient Hartford. He says a lot of local decisions are made on the basis of assumptions that were good 50 years ago but no longer hold true now, in times of a climate emergency. He'll talk about the type of local action influenced by thinking globally that he promotes.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11XPqHxZeuyyaytszPuhV5Sydv6kcZzFKuuCjmVs2ggw/edit#slide=id.p
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wuyO65nJqO6oV9zPsjaV40QzRb4dOt0Xoe-4_l0Y9HA/edit
10:00 - 10:30 am
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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
With on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at www.wgdr.org/on-demand
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