Oil and Global Conflicts
Bird’s eye view of an average gas station during the early morning hours during gas rationing. National Archives photo 555457 The price of gas and oil in the United States […]
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Maple Sugaring and Climate Change
Water evaporates from boiling sap to make syrup. As the maple tree’s growing season gets hotter due to climate change, the sugar content of sap will decrease, requiring longer boiling
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How To Help Amphibians this Spring
A spotted salamander is helped across the road in Sharon, VT. Have you ever seen a spotted salamander? These giant amphibians are 4.5 to 8 inches long (picture a salamander
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A New Woodstock High School and Middle School
The updated school design includes flat roofs, squared off facade, and fewer windows On March 3rd, voters of Barnard, Bridgewater, Killington, Plymouth, Pomfret, Reading, and Woodstock will vote on a
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Winter Updates on Riverside Mobile Home Park
A large portion of Riverside is in a FEMA flood hazard zone, mapped in the blue and orange shaded area. For the past few years, Sustainable Woodstock has worked alongside
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Is Plug-In Solar Coming to Vermont?
Plug-in solar set up on a balcony in Germany. Photo by Yuma Solar on Unsplash When we think of solar, we often envision panels up on a roof or in
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An Overview of Proposed Changes to Woodstock’s Village Zoning Bylaw
The official zoning map of Woodstock Village with the Design Review Overlay District shaded in light grey. After more than a year of work, the Woodstock Planning Commission is getting
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2025 Sustainable Woodstock Highlights
Participants at our Sustainable Crafting & Community Gathering This past year has been full of gatherings. You have joined us for summer picnics at our community gardens, a sustainable holiday
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EV fast charging stations Open at Bridgewater Mill
The two DC fast charging stations on the Woodstock side of the Bridgewater Mill are now live. Photo by TRORC. Two DC fast charging stations, each with two CCS ports,
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A Guide to Holiday Waste and Recycling
The Prosper Valley School collects clean, flexible plastic such as bread bags, grocery bags, bubble wrap, plastic shipping envelopes, and wood pellet bags to be recycled. Photo by Anna Shvets. The December
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Reasons to Stop Using Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
“The decibel range of gas-powered blowers exceeds noise safety standards established by the World Health Organization and the EPA.” Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention Modern society has a
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Invasive Species to Watch Out for This Fall
Invasive burning bush is bright red this time of year and is easy to spot in people’s yards and in wild clusters in the forest understory. Once you learn to
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How to Get Help Weatherizing Your Home
This grant from the Canaday Family Charitable Trust can help make efficient home heating projects, like heat pumps, a reality. The average Vermonter spends $2,447 annually on heating their home. In the
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Climate Change, Drought, and Dry Wells
The area mapped in red is experiencing “extreme drought,” accounting for over 65% of the state. Source: US Drought Monitor It’s easy to mentally check off the impacts of climate
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Planning for Riverside’s Future: Flood Resilience and Community Preparedness
Photo credit: Civil Air Patrol Riverside Mobile Home Park sits on a bend in the Ottauquechee River just upstream from Woodstock Union High School & Middle School. The park flooded
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Ramen Day
Join us on Tuesday, September 30th, for a screening of the film Ramen Day 1 in 3 Vermonters experienced food insecurity during the COVID pandemic. In the years since the
Woodstock’s Shared Energy Coordinator Accomplishments
A student is dropped off by a new all-electric school bus. Photo by Jenevra Wetmore. In 2020 Woodstock passed a Climate Emergency and Action Resolution, with a goal of achieving
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The Longest Story Ever Told
Map of Australia showing the extent of the continental shelf that was exposed during low sea level. Image credit: Patrick Nunn / Nicholas Reid, from the article “Aboriginal Memories of
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Sustainable Woodstock and Wilde Bee Farm plant native gardens around Town
A group of students from the Woodstock Middle School plant a native pollinator strip at East End Park Have you heard of the windshield phenomenon? This phenomenon is the widespread
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Woodstock Awarded Grant for Drinking Water System
This temporary water main has run across the Elm Street Bridge since the 2023 floods, and will be replaced with funding from the NBRC grant. We are thrilled to announce
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Invasive Jumping Worms
Invasive jumping worms. source: State of VT Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets Many of us grow up learning that worms are good for the soil. While earthworms do provide
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Billings Community Garden Bank Restoration Planned for This Fall
Barnard Brook Immediately after the July 2023 flood–note the high water. Photo by Michael Caduto. Sustainable Woodstock hopes that you will join us for a picnic at 6:30 PM on June
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Thinking about Going Solar? Now’s the Time to Act
The recent version of the tax and spending bill passed by the House eliminates the 30% tax credit for solar and other clean energy technology. The US House of Representatives
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Woodstock Awarded Municipal Planning Grant
By Jenevra Wetmore and Harry Falconer The East End of Woodstock has potential to be revitalized through adaptive reuse of historic structures, construction of new infill projects, and enhancement of
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Local Food Security Work
Spring is a hopeful time of year, especially for gardeners. We plant spinach and peas, watch rhubarb worm its way up and out of the soil, and let ourselves get
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A History of Green Up Day and Waste in VT
Volunteers with a truck bed full of trash and tires collected on Green Up Day 2024. Every year on the first Saturday of May, Vermonters come together to clean up
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Celebrate Earth Day with Sustainable Woodstock
“We don’t need to fix the planet, we need to fix ourselves. We have lost the sense of wonder and beauty for the gift that has been given to us.”
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NOAA’s Impact on Weather, Storm Tracking, and Climate Science
The Keeling Curve shows how carbon dioxide concertation in our atmosphere has risen exponentially in recent history and was made using data from NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory. The current administration
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Maple Sugaring and Climate Change
Water evaporates from boiling sap to make syrup. As the maple tree’s growing season gets hotter due to climate change, the sugar content of sap will decrease, requiring longer boiling
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How To Help Amphibians this Spring
A spotted salamander is helped across the road in Sharon, VT. Have you ever seen a spotted salamander? These giant amphibians are 4.5 to 8 inches long (picture a salamander
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How Climate Change is Affecting Vermont’s Chocolate Milk
Strafford creamery has transitioned to making maple milk instead of chocolate milk for now, due to a climate change-induced cocoa shortage On February 6th, Strafford Organic Creamery posted on social
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Tariffs and Vermont’s Electric Grid
Vermont generates some electricity from in-state hydropower at a much smaller scale than Hydro-Quebec. Photo: Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. President Trump signed executive orders on Saturday February 1st that
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Clean Energy is Booming Abroad
Junma Solar Power Station is a Chinese solar farm that resembles a galloping horse and set a Guinness world record for the largest image made of solar panels. Junma means “fine horse” in Mandarin. Credit:
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The 5-year anniversary of Woodstock’s Climate Emergency and Action Resolution
Students marching from the High School to town as part of the climate strike This year is the 5th anniversary of Woodstock passing the 2020 Climate Emergency and Action Resolution. The resolution
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The Future of Woodstock’s Zoning
Housing development near the village center helps make our community more walkable and bikeable. Many exciting changes have been happening in the Town and Village of Woodstock, the most recent
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Cutting Costs and Carbon: How to Heat Your Home Efficiently
The least expensive and most stable form of home heating for Windsor County residents is the electric heat pump. Source: EAN. January is an apt time to think about home
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Outside Our Comfort Zone
Winter brings cold and discomfort and ushers in beauty and change “Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life
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2025 Incentives to Go Green
Residential solar panels are eligible for a 30% tax credit As we draw near the end of 2024, we are approaching the end of what will most likely be the
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A Guide to Holiday Waste and Recycling
Photo by Katie Azi on Unsplash The December holidays are fast approaching, and with the holidays comes plastic, string lights, wrapping paper, Christmas trees, and other items we will eventually have to dispose
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Choosing Generosity
Join Sustainable Woodstock on December 7th to make sustainable crafts, including homemade beeswax wraps. Photo by Jack Cole on Unsplash “I imagine if we acknowledged that everything we consume is the gift of
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2024 Sustainable Woodstock Highlights
Sustainable Woodstock’s youngest volunteer with a ‘Grow Your Own Garden’ kit of seedlings ready to be given to a local family This year, we are excited to celebrate a momentous
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It’s Time to Dig In
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion”. -Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions “We live in a world in which we need
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Leaf Blowers, Climate Change, and You
Image courtesy of Quiet Clean PDX One hour of operating a gas-powered leaf blower emits as much smog forming pollution as driving a Toyota Camry 1,100 miles – about the
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Woodstock’s Shared Energy Coordinator Accomplishments
Grant partners stand in front of a new all-electric school bus. Pictured left to right: Emo Chynoweth, Vice President and COO, Butler’s Bus Service; James Fenn, Mountain Views Supervisory Union
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“Just Getting By” Screening and Q&A
Vermont is in the middle of a housing and homelessness crisis. In 2023, the rate of homelessness in Vermont was 2nd highest in the U.S. A point-in-time count in January 2023
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2024 Recycling Day – Where Will Your Recycled Electronics Go?
Michael J. Caduto & Jenevra Wetmore Nearly 7,500 pounds of paper were collected and shredded during Sustainable Woodstock’s 2023 Annual Electronics Recycling & Paper Shredding Day. In 2023, Sustainable Woodstock—partnering
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Woodstock Receives Water Quality Funding
Bank erosion on Barnard Brook adjacent to the Billings Community Garden. Photo: Michael J Caduto. Since 2009, Sustainable Woodstock’s Billings Community Garden has sat adjacent to Barnard Brook across the
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Volunteer at Sustainable Woodstock’s Window Dressers Build
Volunteers at Sustainable Woodstock’s 2023 Window Dressers build. Barn raisings were common in 18th and 19th century rural North America. During these one-day events, neighbors came together to build a
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Yes in My Back Yard
How can we as a community see the beauty in solar panels? The term NIMBY stands for “Not In My Back Yard.” We culturally understand Nimbys to be people who
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Climate Crossroads: What is at Stake this November
2024 flooding in Plainfield, VT. Photo by Connor Spear. On July 10-11th, 2024, exactly a year to day from the July 2023 floods, Vermont once again saw extensive flood damage. By sheer
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New Environmental Legislation Becomes Law
By Vermont Natural Resources Council & Jenevra Wetmore Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash It has been a historic year in the Vermont Legislature for climate action, communities, and natural resources. The 2024
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A Year of Flood Recovery
Volunteers clean mud from under a flooded mobile home On July 10-11, 2023, Vermont was hit with historic and catastrophic flooding. Over this two-day period some parts of Vermont received over 9 inches of
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Extreme Heat and Climate Change
Observed and projected changes (compared to the 1901–1960 average) in near-surface air temperature for Vermont. Projected changes for 2006–2100 are from global climate models for two possible futures: one in
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The Hidden Carbon Cost of Your Credit Card
A Third Act protest against banks supporting the fossil fuel industry. Image courtesy of Third Act. You may be contributing to the climate crisis without realizing it– through your credit
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Grow Your Own Garden Program Feeds Local Families
By Jenevra Wetmore Sustainable Woodstock’s Program Coordinator Heather Knoll holds a full set of seedlings ready for a local family. This spring marked the fifth year of Sustainable Woodstock’s Grow
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Window Inserts Available for Old Leaky Windows
By Jenevra Wetmore and Heather Knoll Volunteers help build window inserts at a fun community event in the fall This fall Sustainable Woodstock will host our third WindowDressers (WD) Community
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A History of The American Lawn
An advertisement from the early 1900s depicts a well-manicured lawn belonging to wealthy white landowners. Source: Library of Congress. Americans love lawns. According to NASA, lawns—including residential and commercial lawns
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Going Beyond “Carbon Footprint”
By Jenevra Wetmore Activists young and old take a stand for climate change, climate action, and a better future. NYC September 2019. Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash Most of us are familiar
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Earth Day and the Eclipse
Earth Rising, as photographed from Apollo 8, December 24, 1968 (NASA photo) The famous “Earthrise” photo was taken by Apollo astronauts on Christmas Eve 1968. In it, a glowing blue earth
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Mountain Views Supervisory Union Welcomes Three New Electric School Buses
By Jenevra Wetmore Grant partners stand in front of a new all-electric school bus. Pictured left to right: Emo Chynoweth, Vice President and COO, Butler’s Bus Service; James Fenn, Mountain
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Celebrate Earth Day with Sustainable Woodstock
By Jenevra Wetmore In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, what happens when a vulnerable city builds by the sea? We invite you to explore this question with
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Sustainable Woodstock Screens “River”
By Jenevra Wetmore Narrated by Oscar Nominee Willem Dafoe and with music by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Radiohead, River spans six continents. Vermonters witnessed the devastating power of rivers in July
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Vermont’s Plant Hardiness Zones Shift
By Jenevra Wetmore The new 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Image credit: USDA If you are a farmer or gardener, then you know how important the USDA (United States Department
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Woodstock Union High School and Middle School Conducts an Idle-Free School Campaign
By Kat Robbins and Wayne Michaud Max van der Schoot and Mia Zillian conduct data collection on vehicle idling practices at WUHSMS. Photo by Kat Robbins. Idling your vehicle contributes
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Keeping Perspective in the New Year
By Jenevra Wetmore “Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Each of the approximately 15,000 specks
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2024 Incentives to Go Green
By Jenevra Wetmore Economic incentives make 2024 a great year for you to invest in new efficient technology. Photo: Drive Electric Vermont As we draw near the end of 2023,
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A Sustainable Twist on Your Traditional Gift Exchange
By Amanda Kuhnert COVER Home Repair recently opened Cover to COVER, a stand-alone bookstore. The store is volunteer-driven and all proceeds from the store support their home repair operations across
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Reasons to Invest in Woodstock Bike Lanes
By Michael Green Photo by Israelzin Oliveira Imagine a future Woodstock where cycling is not just a recreational activity but a part of daily life. This is already a reality
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The Most Significant Climate Legislation in U.S. History
By Jenevra Wetmore Solar panels installed at a local farm. Photo credit: Maddie Cook and Kieran Ahern. The Environmental Protection Agency calls the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) the “most significant
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The Benefits of Induction Cooktops and the Dangers of Gas
By Jenevra Wetmore A gas burner, known to emit carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and nitrogen dioxide. Photo by KWON JUNHO on Unsplash Most of us think of either gas or electric options when we consider
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2023 Sustainable Woodstock Highlights
By Jenevra Wetmore A sampling of harvests from Sustainable Woodstock’s Community Garden at Billings Farm that were donated to the Woodstock Community Food Shelf. Photo by Amy Wheeler/Sustainable Woodstock. We
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Woodstock Energy Coordinator’s Accomplishments
By Jenevra Wetmore Bluebird Vision 2020 Electric Bus. Photo Credit: This untouched photo is used under the Creative Commons License 4.0. UniversityRailroad, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 The
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Virtual Screening & Discussion on Farmland Access and Viability in VT
By the White River Land Collaborative Photo credit: The White River Land Collaborative The White River Land Collaborative, in Partnership with Sustainable Woodstock, is excited to bring you an evening
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Help Your Neighbors Stay Warm This Winter
By Jenevra Wetmore A Window Dressers insert being installed. Photo courtesy Window Dressers. This fall Sustainable Woodstock will make free insulating window inserts for community members, and you are invited
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Meet Heather Knoll
Sustainable Woodstock’s New Program Coordinator Dear Woodstock Community: We are thrilled to introduce the latest addition to our dedicated team. Heather Knoll comes to us with a background in grassroots
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Electric Lawn Care Finds Success in Woodstock
By Jenevra Wetmore Electric lawncare equipment looks and functions much like gas-powered counterparts. Photo courtesy of Rooted Gardens. With summer comes the near constant drone of lawn mowers, weed whackers,
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Community Gardens are for Everyone!
By Amy Wheeler, Community Garden Coordinator The first time I came across a community garden was many years ago in a different town and state, but I still remember being
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Try Out an E-Bike for Free
By Jenevra Wetmore Heather Wolfe and daughter, Esther, enjoying their e-bike trial during Sustainable Woodstock’s first e-bike event in October 2021. Photo by Jenevra Wetmore. This is the third year
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Clean Up at Riverside Mobile Home Park
By Jenevra Wetmore Volunteers remove skirting and flood-damaged insulation from homes at the Riverside community. Photos: Jenevra Wetmore. Rebecca Mitchell (l), Martha Giller (center), Wendy Miller (right) It has been
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Turn Your Lawn into a Pollinator Garden for a Greener, Healthier Environment
by Jeannie Lindheim and Steven Shama How would you feel if you couldn’t eat your favorite fruits and vegetables or see beautiful flowers? Would you like to see how you
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Join Sustainable Woodstock at “Gardening for the Earth” Workshop Series
By Jenevra Wetmore Planting and encouraging milkweed in your yard and garden provides monarch butterflies with the plant required for laying eggs and feeding larvae. In the past two decades
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Update on Vermont’s Legislation on Climate & the Environment
By Skye Cully In the last few years the issue of climate change has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Unfortunately, we’ve seen inaction from legislators
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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
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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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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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Understanding & Addressing the Root of Food Insecurity
By Jenevra Wetmore & Michael J. Caduto The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as “a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life.” Nearly two
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Earth Day and the Power of the People
By Jenevra Wetmore “Earth Rising,” as photographed from Apollo 8, December 24, 1968. NASA photo. This year will mark the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, an annual holiday to celebrate
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Save Energy and Improve Comfort with Window Inserts
By Jenevra Wetmore Installed Window Dressers Inserts. Photo courtesy of Window Dressers. Did you notice cold drafts coming from your windows this winter? Sustainable Woodstock wants to hear from you!
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How and Why to Start a Garden this Spring
By Jenevra Wetmore This time of year, people are either anxious for spring to arrive or praying for more snow–the latter tend to be skiers. I have never been an
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Celebrating a New Global Agreement for Nature
By Catherine Machalaba March 3rd, World Wildlife Day, reminds us of the importance of wildlife as part of biodiversity, and what we can do to protect it. Biodiversity–life on earth–is
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Celebrating Environmentalists this Black History Month
By Jenevra Wetmore In honor of Black History Month Sustainable Woodstock is recognizing the work of historical and modern Black environmental leaders. In the US it is well-documented that environmental
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Climate Mis- and Disinformation around COP 27
By Jenevra Wetmore COP 27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, took place this past November in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Each COP Conference is meant to be a time
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Microplastics Pose a Big Problem
By Jenevra Wetmore I have a cup of black English breakfast tea with a splash of milk every morning. I have been reliably drinking the same brand of black tea
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2023 Incentives to Go Green
By Jenevra Wetmore 2022 was one of the top 10 hottest years on record. 2022 was also the year that the US government passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which
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Intermunicipal Regional Energy Coordinator’s (IREC) Accomplishments in Woodstock
By Jenevra Wetmore Geoff Martin, our Intermunicipal Regional Energy Coordinator (IREC) since the summer of 2020, has recently left this role for a new job with Norwich Solar. Two Rivers-Ottauquechee
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‘Tis the Season for Sustainability
By Jenevra Wetmore With Thanksgiving comes Black Friday, which is followed by the unending barrage of advertisements that ramp up every year around the Holiday season. Limited time offers, buy
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Protecting Our Rivers
Barnard Brook Stabilization Project By Jenevra Wetmore For several years the bank behind Sustainable Woodstock’s Community Garden at Billings Farm has been eroding and slumping into Barnard Brook. This area,
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How Climate Change is Changing Hurricane Season
By Jenevra Wetmore So far this hurricane season there have been nine named tropical storms to hit the US. Four of them strengthened into hurricanes, and two reached major hurricane intensity
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Common Weatherization Myths
By Jenevra Wetmore Did you know that the average home has enough air leakage to add up to a two-foot square hole? This means that, when combined, all those cracks
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Greenwashing: What to Look Out For
By Jenevra Wetmore As if there aren’t already enough scams and deceptive marketing techniques to watch out for, environmentally-minded consumers have another pitfall to keep in mind: greenwashing. “Greenwashing,” coined
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Help Your Neighbors Stay Warm This Winter
By Jenevra Wetmore This fall Sustainable Woodstock will make free insulating window inserts for community members, and you are invited to join us! From Thursday October 27th to Wednesday November
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Try Out an E-Bike for Free
By Jenevra Wetmore There are many ways to reduce your personal transportation emissions, including: carpooling, biking, taking public transportation, and driving a hybrid or electric vehicle. One way of reducing
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Rising Temperatures and Human Health
By Jenevra Wetmore Growing up in Vermont, my family did not have an air conditioner. On the few hot and humid nights during the summer my parents would pull out
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Upcoming Presentation of Regional Climate Action Plan
By Jenevra Wetmore In 2020, Woodstock’s Select Board and Village Trustees passed a Climate Emergency and Action Resolution, with the goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This
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Mowing Green
The Virtues of Electric Lawn Care By Jenevra Wetmore Imagine it is a Saturday morning and you are mowing the lawn. You check the fuel level of your lawn mower
Sustainable Woodstock’s Gardening Initiatives
By Jenevra Wetmore June has arrived and with it comes the long-awaited gardening season. As food prices continue to rise, many Vermonters will grow a garden as a low-cost and
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Local Public Transportation, Current and Future
By Jenevra Wetmore The biggest source of carbon pollution in Vermont comes from transportation. On average, every Vermonter is responsible for between 5-6 tons of carbon emissions from driving. If
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Climate Migration to Vermont
By Jenevra Wetmore The past few years have shown that Vermont is a popular place to live. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vermont property sales to out-of-state buyers
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Taftsville Chapel Achieves “Cool Congregation” and “Certified Wildlife Habitat” Recognition
By Steve McCloskey, Pastor of Taftsville Chapel Mennonite Fellowship Members of the Taftsville Chapel Mennonite Fellowship display some of the projects they are engaged in to promote sustainability, foster environmental
Save Energy and Improve Comfort with Window Dressers
By Jenevra Wetmore This fall, Sustainable Woodstock will host a Window Dressers community build to construct insulating window inserts for low-income community members. The inserts function like custom interior storm
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Please Vote to Help Woodstock Meet Its Carbon Emissions Goals for 2030
By Sustainable Woodstock A 2019 report authored by 11,258 scientists in 153 countries announced that planet Earth “clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency.”* In 2020, the Woodstock Select Board,
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How can Vermont Farms be more Sustainable?
By Madison Cook Approximately 16% of greenhouse gas emissions in VT are due to agriculture1. These greenhouse gasses (GHG) accumulate in the atmosphere and cause the phenomenon known as climate
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2022 Incentives to Go Green
By Jenevra Wetmore If you have been considering making a “green” change in your life, 2022 might be your year. This is because every New Year brings changes to state
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Free Energy Consultations Now Available for Local Businesses
By Jenevra Wetmore This winter, Sustainable Woodstock is partnering with Efficiency Vermont to bring free energy walk throughs to local businesses. These consultations help business owners understand where they can
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Reasons to Recycle in Vermont
By Jenevra Wetmore, with input from Michele Morris, Director of Marketing and Communications, Chittenden Solid Waste District Electronics being collected by Good Point Recycling at Sustainable Woodstock’s annual e-cycling and document
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Weatherize your Home for Winter
By Jenevra Wetmore As we head into winter, retail prices for energy are at or near multiyear highs in the United States. This means that those of us who heat
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Lower your Carbon Emissions with an E-Bike
By Jenevra Wetmore A well-equipped e-Bike, ready to roll. (Photo: Local Motion) Vermont’s 2016 Comprehensive Energy Plan set a goal of having 90% of our total energy use come from
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Identifying and Fighting Invasive Species
By Jenevra Wetmore If you have driven on the roads of Vermont lately, you have probably noticed tall yellow flowers blossoming along roadsides and in pastures. This weed, commonly known
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Pesticides Threaten Species Survival and Biodiversity
By Jenevra Wetmore In December of 2020 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that “listing the monarch as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act is warranted.” Planting
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Ticks: A Sign of Climate Change
By Jenevra Wetmore It is tick season. Most Vermonters know to spray ourselves with repellant before going out, wear protective clothing, and do regular tick “checks.” This message has become
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Rewild Your Lawn this Spring
By Jenevra Wetmore Rewilding sections of lawn by planting and encouraging native wildflowers produces an array of blossoms that attract a diversity of pollinators. Photo by Heidi Marcotte. Americans love
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News from the Intermunicipal Regional Energy Coordinator
By Geoff Martin Woodstock sees considerable long-term savings on electricity by purchasing solar credits from power generated by an array built by Norwich Solar Technologies on the RSD Transportation warehouse
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From BPA to CO2: Educating to Make a Difference
By Madelyn Trimpi Photo: Madelyn Trimpi on an internship in Costa Rica, planting trees with the Monteverde Institute. The most significant experience I had in school about climate change was
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2021 Incentives to Go Green
By Jenevra Wetmore If you have been considering making a “green” change in your life, 2021 might be the year for you. This is because every New Year brings changes
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Understanding & Promoting Food Security in the Upper Valley
By Jenevra Wetmore Grow Your Own Garden seedlings from Sherburne Farms-2020. Photo: Michael J. Caduto Nearly one-third of Vermonters experienced food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic between March and September
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Why Buy a Fuel-Efficient Car?
By Jenevra Wetmore Since high school I have cycled through a range of cars, mostly my parent’s leftovers. My first car was a 1994 automatic Toyota Camry (21 mpg), then
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