Coming up Thursday on Central Vermont Community Radio - Will Vermont allow corpses to be composted? And more on what local libraries are up to.

9:00 - 10:00 am
As part of our ongoing series of shows on local libraries, we talk to two relatively new librarians in our area: Angela Agoe of Cutler Library in Plainfield and Amanda Otto, youth librarian at Cabot Library. They'll talk about what programming they're doing now, how it's been affected by Covid, and more.

Do orange peels go in the composting bin? Chicken bones? What about corpses? There's a bill in the Vermont House to permit composting of human corpses. While "natural burials" (in a shallow grave, with no embalming) are permitted in Vermont, active composting of human corpses is not. Kate Stephenson consults for a company in Washington state that has been one of the US pioneers in corpse composting. Patrick Healy works as director of the Green Mountain Cemetery in Montpelier, which carries out natural burials, and he serves as president of the Vermont Cemetery Association, which supports the bill.
https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/31/bill-would-allow-composting-of-human-remains/

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story about what happens in a mausoleum, and more.

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 archive.wgdr.org