Category Archives: Events in the Broader Community

April Week 2: Second Nature, City Market, VBSR, NOFA-VT, Vermont Nature Conservancy, VCGN

AASHE (good read/conferences/jobs) Second Nature (good watch): Sustainability Sit-Downs #11 is out. This week’s video features Wendell Brase, Administrative Vice Chancellor at University of California, Irvine, discussing discussing the true costs of inaction in the face of Climate Change. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature video series consisting of 12 short interviews with sustainability leaders in higher […]

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April Week 2: Second Nature, City Market, VBSR, NOFA-VT, Vermont Nature Conservancy, VCGN

AASHE (good read/conferences/jobs) Second Nature (good watch): Sustainability Sit-Downs #11 is out. This week’s video features Wendell Brase, Administrative Vice Chancellor at University of California, Irvine, discussing discussing the true costs of inaction in the face of Climate Change. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature video series consisting of 12 short interviews with sustainability leaders in higher […]

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Local Motion’s Basic Everyday Bicycling Workshop (AND FREE PIZZA!) – April 15

“Sure, I’d use my bikes for errands, to go shopping, or to go to work, it wasn’t for _____________.” We all have our reasons.  The fact is, many of us would like to bike more often.  Whatever is getting in your way, you can find help from Local Motion’s Everyday Bicycling Project. What IS Everyday […]

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UVM Food Summit: The Right to Food: Power, policy, & politics in the 21st century – June 16-17

Courtesy of  University of Vermont Food Systems Initiative: University of Vermont and Vermont Law School present 4th annual UVM Food Systems Summit All people deserve access to adequate, nutritious food. The complicated and provocative question for the fourth annual UVM Food Systems Summit on June 16-17 is how to provide this basic human right. Globally and in […]

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VT farms and homesteads featured in INHABIT Movie- this Friday at the Roxy!

Re-post from Keith Morris, Prospect Rock Permaculture: this Friday, April 3rd,  7:00 pm at the Roxy Theatre in Burlington on corner of So. Winooski and College Sts. INHABIT is a feature length documentary film about permaculture and ecological design – which features a few VT farms/ homesteads, among others from throughout the northeast and midwest. […]

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Naomi Klein is coming to Vermont! (via Skype) – April 18

Re-post from 350VT: We are excited to announce that Naomi Klein is coming to Vermont…. via Skype. (Well, it is April Fool’s Day after all!) This past winter there were over 30 book groups across the state studying “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein. It is truly inspiring how many fruitful […]

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April 2015 with the Birds of Vermont Museum

Re-posted courtesy of Kir Talmage, Outreach & IT Coordinator, Birds of Vermont Museum, 900 Sherman Hollow Road, Huntington, VT 05462: Here are the next batch of upcoming events with and at the Birds of Vermont Museum. VOLUNTEER WORK PARTY Saturday, April 11 • 10:00am – 2:00pm Get in shape with a one-day intensive mostly-trail work event? Well… OK, […]

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March Week Four–VNRC, City Market, PLAN!, Second Nature, National Wildlife Federation, AASHE, Local Motion, CarShare VT

VNRC (good read/local events): Get Involved Visit Our Website Give E-News February 2015 Perhaps more so than in recent years, the state budget has been front and center at the State House this year and lawmakers face tough decisions because of a $113 million budget gap. With this in mind, VNRC, along with other organizations, […]

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Leadership Training for Climate Organizers (VT)

Re-post from 350 VT: – Are you inspired by this current moment to take action? Are you looking for new tools to make change in your community? Are you desiring to connect with others throughout the state to build more effective action? We are excited to offer a 3-day training for activists who would like […]

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