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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 Erik Wells, Assistant
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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
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We will be joining a national book club discussion on Active Hope by Joanna Macy. “Books about social and ecological change too often leave out a vital component: how do we change ourselves so that we are strong enough to fully contribute to this great shift? Active Hope fills this
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For October we are combining our social with a special event: Kick-Off – Williston’s Fabric Shopping Bag Sewing Group Example bag sewn by Melinda Petter of Sustainable Williston. Please join us as we gather to start a community group focused on Sewing Fabric Shopping Bags. Date: Thurs, October 10 Time:
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Williston Residents, take note! Registration for the 2019 program (children born between August 2018-Aug 2019) ends Friday 9/27! If you or someone you know has a recent birth/adoption and is a Williston resident, they can register and receive a free, native, tree/shrub to plant at their home
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Please urge the Governor to sign bill S.113 restricting single use plastics. This is the final push! Message Governor Scott: https://governor.vermont.gov/contact-us/message Bill Status/Read It: https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2020/S.113
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It’s a big weekend for sustainability in Williston. We still need volunteers for both events! Saturday is the April Stools ‘scoop the poop’ event 9-11 at the rec park behind WCS. Show up by the skate park at 9am, select a bucket and weapon, and help keep Allen Brook,
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Credit: 350Vermont 350Vermont is organizing a mass march/walk over 5 days (April 5th – 9th), from Middlebury to Montpelier. Sustainable Williston encourages residents to learn more about the event via the 350Vermont website, or event on Facebook.
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From Williston Planning & Zoning Office: ”The Town of Williston Planning Department and Conservation Commission recently developed and installed a new wayside interpretive exhibit…Check out the new exhibit at the Williston Community Park and along the Allen Brook Nature Trail, or view a “virtual tour” at http://arcg.is/