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We are kicking off our fall Environmental Forum Series with a Backyard Climate Change Solutions Workshop Thursday 9/9 at 6:30pm. Help fight climate change throughout your property! Reduce emissions and sequester carbon using regenerative gardening techniques: learn tips for growing your own organic food, composting, rewilding your lawn
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“It is my generation that will be dealing with the worst effects of climate change…You have a responsibility to us and the power to do something about it.” -14 yr old member delivers public comment on climate action to Selectboard at August 17 meeting. To see the full video,
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Sustainable Williston worked hard last summer asking the Selectboard to adopt the Energy Plan that they were considering, and they did! Our group is small and this effort was only successful because we were able to bring in new people and excitement through a letter of support signed by almost
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Sustainable Williston volunteers recently planted 20 bare root trees (sycamore, silver and sugar maple, hackberry, and elm) donated from 350VT. The Town of Williston suggested a parcel of land along the Allen Brook across from the fire station. This area has beaver activity and was in need of help. It
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We will be postponing our social to Thursday, April 15 as many of us plan on attending the virtual Wild and Scenic Film Festival. Go to https://vnrc.org/wsff2021/ for tickets and more information.
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Thank you for signing Sustainable Williston’s letter in support of the Energy Plan this summer. In case you missed the good news, it was adopted — and you helped make that happen! We know that hearing from Williston residents makes a difference to the Selectboard. Now we need your help
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Thanks to Marcy Kass for this excellent summary of the Williston Energy Plan. Feel free to share! Currently the first draft of the Town Budget does not include paying for anything in the Williston Town Energy Plan. So while it was approved by the Selectboard, there’s currently no money
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1- Attend (and invite your friends and young people) to the Williston Selectboard’s virtual Public hearing Tuesday July 28th, 2020 at 8:00 PM: * Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84420446298 * Phone: 1-646-558-8656 * Meeting ID: 84420446298 2- Make a comment during the meeting by emailing
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Our group’s mission is to “identify opportunities to decrease our town’s consumption of natural resources and to create sustainable solutions to environmental challenges.” The proposed Energy Plan for Williston embodies this mission! Being a community means coming together to solve problems that we can’t solve by ourselves
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We have homework for our July 23 meeting when we prepare a permanent website statement on Sustainable Williston’s commitment to racial and social justice. If people can commit to diving into one of the following, it would help prepare us for a productive meeting. Read an article from the
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The Williston Town Selectboard will be looking at the proposed Williston Town Energy Plan tonight on Tuesday, June 16. The Energy Plan Task force (led by Brian Forrest) did yeoman’s work drafting the Energy Plan- a local level plan towards achieving the goals of the 2016 State of Vermont
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If you notice some large seedlings popping up right now that look like this, it might be common milkweed. If you let it be, it will grow into a large (~3 feet) plant with pink blooms loved by pollinators . This plant is also the preferred host species for the Monarch