environment

FOCUS: Dakota Pipeline and Geprag's Park Vermont Protests Unify 11/02/2016

Channel 17 host Margaret Harrington gets together with Kevin Kamps, of Beyond Nuclear, Jane Palmer, of Rising Tide, Vermont, and Dr. Rachel Smolker, of Protect Geprag's Park, to talk about the unification of the Dakota Oil Access Pipeline Protest with the Fracked Gas Pipeline Protest in Addison County, Vermont. The activists emphasize the main similarity, which is that corporate interests take precedence over the needs and wishes of the people and the environment. Elected officials and those running for office are noncommittal. President Obama states he will wait to see how the Dakota Pipeline plays out while 140 Native American protesters are arrested and caged by law enforcement officers from seven states. Meanwhile, the Bundy Clan, who took over federal land by armed violence, have been acquitted by a federal jury.

Vermont United Reckless Rail Rally 05/01/2016

A march and rally to halt the construction of an industrial freight and trucking complex on the banks of the LaPlatte River nature area in Shelburne, Vermont.

For more information visit: Vermont United or visit their Facebook page.

Nuclear Free Future: Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide 04/29/2016

Maggie Gundersen, Chiho Kaneko, and Caroline Phillips of Fairewinds Energy Education discuss the nuclear risk concerns for children not only near the nuclear disaster sites of Fukushima-Dai-ichiin Japan and Chernobyl in Ukraine, formerly the Soviet Union, but globally where areas near all nuclear power plants are contaminated with radiation. Since mothers in Japan especially bear the responsibility to protect children, they experience greater hardships in an environment where just expressing one’s concern about radiation is seen as a treasonous act. Even 30 years later, the Belarus government recognizes the merits of relocating children away from radiation contaminated areas but the children of Japan are socially forced to stay put in highly contaminated areas.

For more information visit: Fairewinds

Nuclear Free Future: Fukushima at 5 and the Vermont Yankee Shutdown - What Do They Mean? Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, Provides Insights From His Recent Trip to Japan 03/25/2016

Host Margaret Harrington talks with Arnie Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear man made crisis when there is no sound methodology in place for decommissioning Fukushima Daiitchi or Vermont Yankee or any of the nuclear power plants being decommissioned in the US. A nuclear power plant carcass can sit for 60 or 70 years with ratepayers and tax payers paying for them after the plant owners have been subsidized at the public expense

More information: www.fairewinds.org or Fairewinds Interview

True North Reports TV: Climate Science 03/18/2016

Host Robert Maynard, Editor of True North Reports, speaks to the issue of whether climate science is really a settled matter.

For more info visit: www.truenorthreports.com

Under the Dome: Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment 02/22/2016

Chittenden County Senator Diane Snelling (R), Vice Chair of Natural Resources and Energy, is joined by Representatives Mary Sullivan (D-Chitt 6-5) and Mike Yantachka (D-Chitt 4-1) to discuss Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.

Stay up-to-date with the Vermont Legislative Session or Watch More Under the Dome every Monday LIVE at 11am until the end of the Legislative Session.

From Vermont to Venezuela 02/21/2016

From VT to VZ - building a global movement for social and environmental justice. A talk at the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock, Vermont. Featuring Quincy Saul of Ecosocialist Horizons and Kate Kanelstein of the Vermont Workers' Center.

Nuclear Free Future: Decommissioning Trust Fund or Decommissioning Slush Fund 01/28/2016

Host Margaret Harrington speaks with Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, on issues regarding the closed Entergy Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.

More information: www.fairewinds.org or F airewinds Interview

Nuclear Free Future: NUCLEAR POWER: Who Is Looking Out for the Public? 09/29/2015

Host Margaret Harrington speaks with Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, on the de-commissioning of Vermont Yankee - The State of Vermont and Nuclear Regualtory Commission. More information: www.fairewinds.org or F airewinds Interview

St. Michael's College: Keynote John L. Allen, Jr. - Saving Our Common Home - A Symposium on Integral Ecology 09/08/2015

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si, is an urgent call for politicians, policy makers, and all citizens of planet earth to make care for the environment central in our decision making. He appeals for recognition of the “seamless garment of life” which connects the smallest micro-organism in the biosphere to the life of humans and demands that we extend the notion of rights to all living creatures. Linking environmental degradation to war and poverty, he maintains that only a radical shift in our relationship with the earth will allow future generations to survive and flourish.

Keynote John L. Allen, Jr., Associate Editor of the Boston Globe and foremost commentator on the Catholic Church, speaks to the issue in Part I of this Symposium on Integral Ecology. Part II, a panel of environmental professors and activists including Jon Erickson, Professor at the Rubenstein School of Environment at UVM, Sister Gail Worcelo of Green Mountain Monastery, and Clive Gray, retired Third World Development economist, formerly of the Harvard Institute for International Development, can be viewed here.

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Summer Video Production Internship - Applications Open

Town Meeting TV is hiring two paid interns to join our production team for the summer! The program will run from Monday, June 24th until Friday, August 16th (8 weeks). $17 an hour, approximately 8 hours per week. We are looking for folks who have basic or intermediate experience with video recording and editing on Adobe Premiere. Interns will work with the Town Meeting TV Co-Directors to pick stories or events that they would like to cover in our community, practice outreach skills, then shoot and edit video that will be broadcasted on Town Meeting TV's YouTube and cable channels. Interested applicants should send their resume and cover letter (including why they are interested in this position and any relevant experience) to Jordan at jmitchell@cctv.org. Applications close Friday, May 24th at 5:00PM. For more information, please contact outreach@cctv.org or call 802-862-3966.