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Winter Scenes from Around Williston
The new winter scenes in our header are photographs from around town by Sustainable Williston member Marie-Claude Beaudette. Here’s one more photograph to enjoy.
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Commuter Options for Willistonians
a reposted message from Emma Long at the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Hello, Williston! The ice-scraping, defrosting, start-your-car-early season is fast-approaching. Are you ready to try something new? Check out Go! Chittenden County, a one-stop resource for information about transportation options. By calling or emailing Go! CC, you can
Ideas and Opportunities
Tips and Recommendations from the First Smaller Footprint Meeting
Here are some notes of interest from the November 20th meeting of Smaller Footprint, a group whose purpose is to share information, ideas, and planning for shrinking individual and household carbon footprints. Here are a fewbooks that were mentioned last night: Mike Berners-Lee, How Bad Are Bananas – an expert carbon
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A Great Online Home Carbon Footprint Estimator
Yesterday we had our first meeting of Smaller Footprint, a community group for working together to greatly shrink our household carbon footprints. During the meeting I wanted to recommend the following carbon footprint calculator, a useful and meaningful tool, but couldn’t find the address. Well, here that information is!
Events
Efficiency Vermont Community Forums
Here’s an announcement from Efficiency Vermont, our state efficiency utility, which is tasked with helping improve energy availability in Vermont through improving energy efficiency. The most convenient event for most Williston residents will probably be the Richmond forum. Community Forums December 2014 Please join Efficiency Vermont Director Jim Merriam
Ideas and Opportunities
Better Gifts for a Smaller Footprint
This post is reprinted from the Facing Climate Change blog. The holidays present a whole different set of circumstances compared to daily life, so they also come with a whole different set of sustainability challenges. Top among these after travel and food (see my previous post) is gift-giving. Recycled wrapping
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VTrans Wants Your Feedback for the On-Road Bicycle Plan
From VTrans: To meet the growing demand for bicycling facilities, VTrans is kicking off an exciting new initiative, the VTrans On-Road Bicycle Plan. The Plan will help guide improvements along Vermont state highways to work better and be safer for all bicyclists — families, commuters and recreational riders. Get involved! You
Ideas and Opportunities
Remaking Holidays for Sustainability: Ways to Improve Any Holiday
Reposted from FaceClimateChange.com Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover, the Fourth of July, and other holidays all have a few things in common: they tend to involve travel and special meals or feasts. For many extended families, like mine, these kinds of occasions are the only times during the year we all
Ideas and Opportunities
New Williston Smaller Footprint Group Will Reduce Carbon Footprints, Promote Resilience
Sustainable Williston’s new Smaller Footprint group offers a way to make big improvements in your individual, family, or small business carbon footprint and become more resilient to extreme weather events by working with other community members in a friendly, laid-back environment. Nobody can make every desirable change at once,
Ideas and Opportunities
Energy Co-op of Vermont Launches Heat Pump Leasing Program
The Energy Co-op of Vermont, a northern Vermont heating fuel provider and energy efficiency Co-op, announces the launch of Co-op Heat Pumps, an innovative heat pump leasing program. The Co-op Heat Pump program offers homeowners a super-efficient Fujitsu heat pump for less than $40 a month on a ten-year lease,
Events
Sustainable Williston meets Wednesday, Nov 12 at 7pm
Sustainable Williston will hold its monthly meeting this coming Wednesday, November 12th, at 7pm in the Vermont Room upstairs at the Dorothy Alling Library. Topics may include our silverware drive for CVU, a new group for individuals and families to greatly reduce carbon footprint, and a review of our group
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Successful silverware drive: thanks, Williston!
Sustainable Williston and CVU’s Environmental Action Club (ENACT) want to thank everyone who came to the polls Tuesday and contributed silverware to the silverware drive to reduce plastic use at CVU! We’re planning steps for an ongoing drive now, and hope to find hundreds more unneeded forks, knives,