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Sen. Sanders announces legislation to provide training, grants, and technical support for programs promoting employee ownership and participation.  He will also introduce a bill creating a U.S. Employee Ownership Bank to provide loans and loan guarantees to employees to purchase a business through an employee stock ownership plan.
Sanders is joined by Paul Millman, Co-Founder and CEO of Chroma Technology Corporation, Cindy Turcot, Chief Operating Officer of Gardener’s Supply Company and Mary Steiger, President of PT 360.

Judge Ben Joseph hosts a conversation Professor Patrick Parenteau, Senior Counsel to the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic and Professor of Law at Vermont Law School, on the Vermont State appeal of the Vermont Yankee decision to allow the plant to remain open.

Host Dennis McMahon talks with Lukas Snelling of Energize Vermont.  The mission of ENERGIZE VERMONT is to educate and advocate for establishing renewable energy solutions that are in harmony with the irreplaceable character of Vermont, and that contribute to the well-being of all her people.
We achieve our mission by researching, collecting, and analyzing information from all sources; and disseminating it to the public, media, community leaders, legislators, and regulators for the purpose of ensuring informed decisions for long term stewardship of our communities.

The mission of the South Burlington Energy Committee is to promote energy conservation, energy efficiency, and the use of renewable energy resources among the city's residents, businesses, and in municipal affairs. The committee aims to assist the city in addressing the goals "to promote energy efficiency, affordable energy, and lessen our reliance (per ca pita) on non-renewable energy resources" [chapter XVI of the city's Comprehensive Plan, amended and readopted March 9, 2011].