Economy & Business

Vermont Speaker of the House Shap Smith (D) addresses the Renewable Energy 2015 Conference and Expo: Leading the Energy REVolution, with perspectives from the Vermont Legislature on renewable energy issues.

For more information: http://www.revconference.org/

Con served as a consultant and trainer both nationally and internationally with governments, public agencies, and communities. He assembled a powerful collection of data slides with more than a decade of population-level trend lines depicting the well-being of Vermont children, families, and communities dating from 1985 to 2003. We are in the process of working with staff and contractors from Vermont Insights-Building Bright Futures, the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Child Trends, and the Agency of Human Services to examine the data and, wherever possible, extend the original Hogan trend line data to 2015.

More information at: Con Hogan Award

Yoram Bauman is an environmental economist and until 2015 was a carbon tax Fellow at Sightline Institute, where he co-authored Tax Shift with Alan Durning. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Washington and works in Washington State and elsewhere on climate change economics and policy, especially carbon pricing. His most recent academic paper (“Climate sensitivity: should the climate tail wag the policy dog?”) was co-authored with UW climate scientist Gerard Roe and appeared in the April 2013 issue of Climatic Change.

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http://www.revconference.org/

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Leaders from the Vermont Agencies of Agriculture, Education, & Health join state legislators, Burlington schools superintendent, local school board members, farm to school network leaders, and a 4th/5th grade garden club in celebrating Farm to School Awareness Month at Sustainability Academy in Burlington.

Highlights of this celebratory press event include:

· Announcement of 2016 Vermont Farm to School Grant Request For Proposals (RFP)

· Kale pesto taste test hosted by Sustainability Academy’s 4th and 5th grade garden club (pesto made with kale harvested from the school garden)

· An opportunity for state leadership to join kindergarten and 1st graders for a sit down lunch prepared by Burlington School Food Project

· Overview of Updated Vermont School Wellness Policy Guidelines

· Sharing of New Vermont Farm to School Network Goals