Fight global hunger, support women farmers – join the Oxfam Action Corps! Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization, invites you to join the Oxfam Action Corps, an exciting grassroots effort to stand up to poverty, hunger, and injustice around the world – starting right in your community. The Oxfam Action Corps is a […]
Continue readingStudent Scholarships – Application deadline in one week! We are now accepting applications from full-time, currently enrolled college students interested in receiving a limited number of complimentary registrations to attend the conference. Click here to find out more. Applications are due by February 15, 2013. Keynote Address by Van Jones Van Jones is the founder […]
Continue readingThe Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is collaborating with Green Works, Vermont Nursery & Landscape Association, to promote the propagation, sale and use of native plants. Come to hear entomologist Doug Tallamy, Professor and Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware and author of award winning “Bringing […]
Continue readingThis course offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain hands-on applied permaculture skills immersed within one of North America’s most diverse and intensive permaculture research sites. Participants will engage with high-performance home and community resource systems that will be more resilient in the face of problems posed by peak oil, climate change, environmental toxicity, and the inability […]
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The Community Kitchen Academy prepares underemployed and unemployed Vermonters for a career in the food service industry and lifelong learning through an intensive program of culinary skills development, career readiness and job placement. Students actively develop and apply new skills by creating wholesome meals for those at risk of hunger using food that has been […]
Continue readingIn this program interested learners, budding naturalists and phenologists alike will turn their eyes and ears to the land, fine tuning their senses while engaging directly with the land. COST: Register for three sections or the whole year. Program meets on THIRD SATURDAY of every month. · Feb 16 – Mar 16 – April 20 […]
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