Vermont Earth Institute celebrates sustainable living
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September 14, 2008
WAITSFIELD Vermont Earth Institute will hold its fourth annual Sustainable Living Celebration at Knoll Farm in Waitsfield on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 9:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. This event offers 18 workshops, inspiration, networking and a locally grown lunch in a nice setting overlooking the Mad River valley.
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University hospital testing green roof
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September 14, 2008
RALEIGH, N.C. A rooftop at Duke University Medical Center sports a new lush ground cover: hardy succulent plants called stonecrop that tolerate heat and need little water.
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Rock snot: Gross but possibly preventable
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September 14, 2008
Didymo in a river looks like many gross things: trailing wisps of toilet paper, goopy brown blobs, a coating of slime. It's commonly referred to as "rock snot" and for good reason. If you are brave enough to touch it, you will note it feels like slippery wet wool or cotton.
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EPA: Bring green to work
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September 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. EPA recently revealed a new online tool, Energy Star @ Work, to provide Americans with tips and information on how to save energy and protect the environment in the workplace.
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Transition comes to our towns
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September 14, 2008
Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Twain was actually quoting his friend Charles Dudley Warner, who originally made the remark. It's been a great line for the last 100 years or so, but it isn't so funny anymore. These days no one is laughing about the weather.
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Energy Expo appeals to students
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September 7, 2008
MANCHESTER Last weekend's Live Green Energy Expo and Music Festival offered "green" education and entertainment for people of all ages. Exhibitors and vendors from mostly local businesses and organizations displayed green initiatives and technology, and several workshops addressed current environmental issues.
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Students excel at finding freebies
September 7, 2008
Emerson College student David Koenig was walking to work in Cambridge recently when he spotted a computer desk that someone had discarded on a street near Harvard Square. It was in good condition and, even better, had slots for CDs. "Just what I was looking for," he said.
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Review criticizes Great Lakes health study
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September 7, 2008
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday.
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Sign up today for a home-energy workshop
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September 7, 2008
Central Vermont Community Action Council, in partnership with the state of Vermont and the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network, will implement an intensive six-month public education program to mobilize Vermonters on how to save energy in their homes.
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The caterpillar: A larval marvel
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September 7, 2008
A woolly bear hunches along a rock wall, stops, raises its head and starts off in a new direction. Now that it's late summer, this rusty-brown and black larva of the Isabella tiger moth is searching for food, shelter, or a place to spin a cocoon into which it will weave hairs of its heavy coat.
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Volunteer gleaners make a difference
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Sterling College graduates join forces to facilitate food donations
August 31, 2008
After graduating from Sterling College with an associate's degree in natural resource management, Theresa Snow found herself working on a local Craftsbury farm, Pete's Greens. She liked her work, was proud of what they'd accomplished and had a good relationship with her boss. But it just wasn't enough.
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Dragonflies: Marvelous on their missions
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August 31, 2008
Dragonflies are nature's aeronautical marvels. Whether darting over water at 35 miles per hour or hovering in midair, they are a spectacle of colors in motion from a delicate blue-green translucency to a jack-o'-lantern black and orange.
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What to know about (re)building with salvage
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August 31, 2008
Marble tile, granite countertops, wood flooring and kitchen appliances at half the cost of retail. Reusing items that would otherwise end up in a landfill. That's the premise behind auction houses and centers that peddle donated and salvaged home materials, such as Murco Recycling Enterprises, a La Grange Park, Ill.
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Weather center offers own model
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August 31, 2008
II am sending this column from the European Weather Centre in Reading, England. For the past 17 years, I have spent a few weeks every summer working here, helping with the development of their global forecast model. Why would someone from Vermont be doing that? Well, for two reasons:
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Feel like a natural woman
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August 24, 2008
Manufacturers are trying everything from entering into fair-trade agreements with suppliers to embedding packaging with wildflower seeds to lure environmentally-minded beauty buyers.
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Their goal: saving the butternut tree
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August 24, 2008
Butternut country is so distinctive that Parker Nichols knows he has arrived even before he sees the first butternut tree. As the proprietor of Vermont WildWoods, a flooring and millwork company in Marshfield that specializes in salvaging diseased butternut trees, he's seen much of Vermont's butternut country.
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Home heat takes extra care
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August 24, 2008
In light of the high cost of heating fuels this year, many Vermonters will be using alternative heating sources for all or part of their heating needs. Fire safety officials statewide are very concerned about the potential for an enormous increase in fires and fire deaths.
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Share a harvest
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August 24, 2008
ou know the old joke about not leaving your car windows open during zucchini season, lest you find your neighbor's surplus squash filling your vehicle? When I moved to New England in the 1980s I soon learned that this was no laughing matter. A few dozen zuke seeds naively planted in the spring, and by summer I was up to my eyeballs in squash.
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Workshops explore living green in Vermont
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August 24, 2008
As summer ends, many Vermonters are thinking about how they are going to heat their homes this winter. Practical advice from some of the leading experts is available as part of the Live Green Energy Expo and Music Festival at Riley Rink in Manchester on Saturday, Aug. 30.
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College lives up to 'eco' reputation
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Annual freshman orientation gets environmental makeover
August 24, 2008
POULTNEY Green Mountain College is hoping its incoming students' first impressions at college are their long-lasting impressions during their years on the Poultney campus and long after graduating.
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