climate change

Host Tom Torti, President of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, chats with Abby White of Efficiency Vermont about their priorities in reducing the effects of climate change and about the programs of Efficiency Vermont, a project of Vermont Energy Investment Corporation. 

www.efficiencyvermont.com

www.veic.org

www.vermont.org/chamber

Honeybee Steelband presents "A Pollinator Epiphany", January 6, 2019 at the Plainfield Opera. Featuring Honeybee Steelband, with additional performances by guest artists Aro Veno, Ellen Leonard, Brian Tokar, and members of "The Swarm". Judy Bellairs and other community members speak about the statewide effort to increase support for pollinator protection legislation.
Directed by Emily Lanxner.

filmed by Jerome Lipani and Victor Guadagno
edited by Lipani

Program submitted by Jerome Lipani.

From Jerome Lipani:

Presented by the Climate Justice Convergence and Energy Forum, August 12, 2018 sponsored by the Toxics Action Center, VT Sierra Club, Sierra Club of Maine, North American Megadam Resistance Alliance, 350Vermont, Central Vermont Climate Action, Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance, Institute for Social Ecology, Rights and Democracy, Upper Valley Affinity Group, Grand Riverkeeper Labrador, Labrador Land Protectors, New Community Project, Biofuel Watch, and the Global Justice Ecology Project.

From Jerome Lipani:

Noverco, the Canadian company that owns Green Mountain Power and Vermont Gas Systems, through several intermediary companies, is seeking permission from the Public Utilities Commission to buy out the public shareholders in Energir, the 100% owner of GMP and VGS. Enbridge, Inc. -whose pipelines have a terrible record of oil spills, gas explosions, fires and other health and safety faults- is one of the two owners of Noverco. If permitted, the buyout will increase Enbridge's ownership stake in GMP and VGS from about 28% to nearly 40%. And this could mean a renewed and aggressive push to build new fracked gas pipelines here in Vermont.