Seeking Health-Safe Sunscreen
By Ella Stainton Throughout this past semester at Woodstock Union High School I have been pursuing an independent study examining sunscreen’s true effects on both people and the environment, particularly …
May 2023
Use storytelling to understand how the natural world has changed
By Jenevra Wetmore My grandmother was born in 1916 and grew up in a Vermont without possums. The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), so peculiar in appearance with its naked tale …
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The Benefits of Riparian Buffers
By Michael J. Caduto Over time, Sustainable Woodstock and the Billings Farm & Museum have improved significant stretches of riparian habitat in Woodstock on both sides of the Ottauquechee River …
Rising to the Challenge of Climate Change—Inspiration and Action
By Michael J. Caduto The expression, “Think globally, act locally,” was introduced in 1915 by Patrick Geddes, a Scottish conservationist and pioneer of regional planning. From deforestation and overharvesting of …
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What the Natural World Can Teach Us About Schools
By Madeline Raynolds “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” —George Moore Working the soil to grow vegetables for the …
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