Sustainable Crafting & Community Gathering
2025-12-06 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Vermont
Join us for an afternoon of crafting, hot cider, cookie potluck, and community!

Crafting Stations:

Wreaths and Door Swags – We will have all the supplies needed to make your own wreath or door swag out of locally grown evergreens, pinecones, and extras. Feel free to bring along extra things you’d like to add to your creation or share with the group!

Black Walnut Dye Pot – Give your stained & well-loved clothes new life at the Community Dye Pot! We’ll have a natural dye pot ready to share, made from black walnuts foraged from the hills around us. Bring in washed items such as bandanas, t-shirts, cloth napkins etc that are made of cotton, linen, flax, or wool for best results. Please bring a plastic bag to wrap up wet dyed items to take home. *We’ll keep the pots going as long as there is color to share.

Holiday Centerpiece – Learn how to make a centerpiece for your winter table out of upcycled cans. We’ll have plenty of supplies, but if you have shallow cans (like those from tuna or small pet food cans) please bring them along!

Pine Cone Bird Feeder – Learn how to make a pine cone bird feeder to help feed feathered friends this winter.

Details & What to Bring:

Potluck cookies and finger foods are encouraged!

Please BYO mug for hot cider. We will have basic crafting supplies, but if you have extra ribbons, berries (from non-invasive plants please), greenery, pine cones, clean tuna/pet food cans, etc, bring them along!

Free event. This is an open-house style gathering. Please arrive any time between 1-3 PM.

Location: Taftsville Chapel, 121 Happy Valley Rd, Taftsville

This event is hosted by Taftsville Chapel’s Schoolhouse for Simple Living and Sustainable Woodstock at the Taftsville Chapel Mennonite Fellowship.

Film Screening: 50 States of Sustainability - Regenerative Agriculture
2025-12-10 00:01 - 2025-12-12 23:59 | Vermont
A key to combating climate change is action. This series of short documentaries focuses on dedicated people of all ages working hard at corporations, non-profits, startups and in government to drive the United States towards a more sustainable future. This section is focused on Regenerative Agriculture.

Location: Virtual. Open to stream any time during our event window.

Free Event. Donations are welcome and go to support our local arts community. Make donations at https://www.pentanglearts.org/donate

Hosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Made possible by our underwriters VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and MASCOMA BANK and sponsors Ellaway Group, The Unicorn, and Mark Knott DDS.

Sustainable Woodstock Energy and Transportation (SWEAT) Action Group monthly meeting
2026-01-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-02-03 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-03-10 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-04-07 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-05 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-06-02 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-07-07 18:00 - 19:00, 2026-08-04 18:00 - 19:00 and 5 more dates | Vermont
We are a group of volunteers who meet every month virtually to promote energy efficiency, conservation and the development and use of renewable energy sources among the Town’s residents, businesses, educational and municipal affairs. We usually meet on the 1st Tuesday of every month. Anyone with an interest in energy is welcome to join.

Contact us at:programs@sustainablewoodstock.org to receive Zoom details.Location: Zoom Video Conference

Green Drinks - Green Investing
2026-01-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Vermont
Join us for an intro to sustainable investing—a strategy that allows you to useyour capital to support climate action.

Are you interested in aligning your investments with your values? Want to make a positive social or environmental impact? This workshop will introduce you to sustainable investing—an investment strategy that allows you to use your capital to support climate action, healthy communities, and sustainable development, all while seeking competitive financial returns.

We will explore publicly available information and tools to help you understand how your investments can align with your values and how you can identify investments that may better support what matters to you most.

Presenter:

Karen Shapiro is a financial advisor with Green Future Wealth Management, located in Lebanon, NH, Through the Association of Financial Educators (AFE), a nonprofit advancing financial literacy, she provides free educational workshops on various financial topics.

Free event. Virtual via Zoom.

Green Drinks: WUHSMS New Building Plan
2026-02-05 17:30 - 18:30 | Vermont
Understanding how significant affordability is for voters and how urgent rebuilding is for our communities, the School Board developed a new rebuild plan that will reduce the local share of the bond by $15 million as compared to the plan considered in 2024. Please join us to learn about the upcoming March 3, 2026 vote.

A Q&A will follow the presentation.

Virtual via Zoom

Ferndean Farm Tour
2026-03-07 13:00 - 14:30 | 740 Sessions Meadow Woodstock, VT 05091
Learn how hydroponic farming fits into our local food movement!

Join us for a tour of Ferndean Farm, a hydroponic farm in Woodstock. We’ll learn about how hydroponic farming can fit into our local food movement and provide fresh produce during the winter months. Farmer Madeline Raynolds will share her hydroponic systems and we’ll enjoy a salad sampling.

Practical/rugged shoes are recommended.

Green Energy Planning Workshop
2026-04-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Norman Williams Public Library, 10 The Grn, Woodstock, Vermont, 05091, United States
Sustainable Woodstock, Efficiency Vermont, and Norman Williams Public Library are partnering to bring you an interactive workshop designed to help you map out a path for your home’s energy future.

Using less energy to condition your home means spending less money making your home more affordable, more comfortable, and more resilient. Efficiency Vermont will offer a brief presentation on popular technologies and incentives, while the focus of the evening will be on the discussions that develop around your questions regarding your home.

Once you register for the event, Sustainable Woodstock will send you a questionnaire to complete that will help you prepare for the evening discussion so that you walk away with a road map for your home.

Upper Valley Earth Week Open House Tour
2026-04-25 10:00 - 2026-04-26 14:00 | Vermont
Come visit your neighbors in the Upper Valley Earth Week Open House to see and discuss the earth-friendly strategies they’re using. Visitors will be welcomed on both Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days.

WHAT: Residents and businesses in 10 Upper Valley communities invite their neighbors to come see and discuss the earth-friendly strategies they’ve adopted in order to do less harm to their families, their communities, and the planet. Come talk to owners and business about their solar power, battery backup, sustainable gardening or farming, electric vehicles, heat pumps, efficient water heaters, induction stoves, electric snow blowers, and much more. Neighbors talking to neighbors is the best way to learn from each other, including what was easy, what was hard, and how they saved money.

WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pick the sites you’d like to visit, and drop in any time during those hours.

Some businesses will be offering tours earlier that week; register by Saturday, April 18 to receive the pdf guide in time to receive info about those tours.

WHERE: 20 homes, 4 businesses (including 3 farms), 4 nonprofits, and 1 church in 10 Upper Valley communities in New Hampshire and Vermont.

As we get closer to the event date – we will email everyone a guide to the tour.

Locations include:

IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Etna

Hanover

Lebanon and West Lebanon

Plainfield

IN VERMONT

Norwich

South Strafford

South Woodstock

White River Junction

Wilder

Woodstock

The Upper Valley Earth Week Open House 2026 is sponsored by Sustainable Lebanon, Sustainable Hanover, Sustainable Woodstock, the Norwich Energy Committee, Vital Communities, and the Lebanon Energy Advisory Committee. Participant contact information may be shared with these organizations to facilitate communication of event details.

The Upper Valley Earth Week Open House is also co-sponsored by the Plainfield Energy Committee, Lyme Energy Committee, New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility, 350 New Hampshire, and Upper Valley Dayenu Circle.

Annual E-Recycling and Document Shredding Day
2026-05-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Woodstock Union High School and Middle School, 100 Amsden Way, Woodstock, Vermont, 05091
Shred-Ex will accept your sensitive documents for shredding. Good Point Recycling will collect used electronics for recycling and reuse, such as televisions, computers and monitors, peripherals, printers, telephones, electronic game consoles, handheld electronic devices and stereo equipment.Suggested Donation of $5.00 for each box of documents and all electronics donations encouraged.

Location: Woodstock Union High School Middle School parking lot, 100 Amsden Way, Woodstock

About 20% of equipment collected by Good Point is refurbished for reuse. Some TVs and computers are wholesaled to Vermont stores that sell restored second-hand equipment. Parts and working machines are sold nationwide. Good Point also partners with a job training program based out of Addison County that teaches skills for repairing and refurbishing used electronics.

Electronics that cannot be refurbished are responsibly recycled and much of the material is processed for reuse. Glass, tubes, circuit boards and monitors are used domestically and overseas. Raw materials—aluminum, steel, copper and iron—are sourced to spot markets. This mitigates harm done to the environment by reducing the need for virgin resources extracted from the Earth.
