Coming up Thursday on Central Vermont Community Radio - Unexpected ways aging populations will affect us in Vermont and internationally, and how Covid restrictions that keep us from meeting face to face have affected Vermont's famous local democracy.

9:00 - 10:00 am
In Vermont, one in five residents is over 65—and In less than a decade, at least 35 countries will have more than one out of five people over the age of 65. This age distribution is unprecedented, and Bradley Schurman has dubbed it The Super Age. In his book by the same name, he address issues like:
• Why retirement as a concept must be rethought and what the plan is for bringing it into the 21st century so society as a whole can thrive
• How youths and adults alike can continue to provide higher-quality public access to transport, food, and entertainment to people of all ages and ability levels.

Schurman will describe these and many other ways our choices will be influenced and constrained by new demographic realities.

The Super Age

For two years in a row, Covid restrictions are keeping many Vermont towns from holding in-person town meetings. What's lost? What's gained, when more people vote by mail, after being sent their ballots? How much has our enforced isolation led to lost muscle memory for the skills of working together creatively to shape our destiny, locally? We'll hear from Susan Clark, who has served as Middlesex town moderator since 2005 and has co-authored two books on local democracy, All Those In Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community (with Frank Bryan) and Slow Democracy (with Woden Teachout).

vtinstituteforgovt.weebly.com/all-those-in-favor.html
slowdemocracy.org

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, 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

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