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Preservation Burlington: UVM Graduate Program in Historic Preservation 07/25/2024

From Preservation Burlington:

Co-hosts Ron Wanamaker and Liisa Reimann chat with Robert McCullough, retiring Professor and Program Director of the UVM Graduate Program in Historic Preservation.

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Conserving the Winooski River Watershed with Jennifer Ely 01/23/2024

Host Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV, interviews Jennifer Ely - biologist, natural resource planner, and former executive director of the Winooski Valley Park District - to discuss her work, the diversity of our region, and practical ways we can protect and conserve our natural environment.

Standing Trees Vermont: Grassroots Resistance to Industrial Logging on Public Lands 05/13/2021

Standing Trees Vermont hosts a presentation and discussion with Danna Smith, executive director of Dogwood Alliance, coauthor of “The Great American Stand," and one of our nation's leading forest advocates. At Dogwood Alliance, Danna has worked successfully across the southern United States to build grassroots resistance to the wood pellet industry and industrial logging in a region rich in biodiversity but long targeted for extraction. Learn about the history of southern forests, strategies and tactics for resistance we can adapt to the Northeast, and opportunities for the future.

Standing Trees Vermont: Public Screening of Burned - Q&A with the Filmmakers 01/28/2021

Renewable energy is a key to addressing climate change, but there is a dirty secret hiding in plain sight! The acclaimed documentary “BURNED – Are Trees the New Coal?” explains how logging forests and burning trees is supported and subsidized as “clean,” “carbon neutral” and “renewable” even as it is leading to deforestation, polluting our air and making climate change worse!

Standing Trees Vermont, a new coalition working to protect, preserve and restore forests on our state and federal lands, presents this online event with the support of our many allies in the region. Coalition members as well as filmmakers Lisa Merton and Chris Hardee respond to questions in this portion of the event.

About the film “BURNED - Are Trees the New Coal?”: Through interviews with activists, experts, and citizens, along with verité-style footage shot across the U.S. and in Europe, BURNED interweaves the science of climate change, energy-policy disputes, the biomass industry practices, forest ecology, the conflict over jobs, and the actions of activists and citizens who are working to protect their health and that of their communities, the forest, and our climate.

Preservation Burlington: Burlington Train Service 09/26/2019

Melinda Moulton joins Ron Wanamaker and Liisa Reimann to discuss the plan for train service to Burlington.

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Preservation Burlington 20th Anniversary 05/14/2018

A short video created for the 20th Anniversary of Preservation Burlington.

Preservation Burlington: 20th Anniversary Show 04/26/2018

Ron Wanamaker and Liisa Reimann are joined by Preservation Burlington's Treasurer and founding member, Jack Mentes, to discuss the last 20 years of the organization. Topics include how far they've come, what prompted the birth of Preservation Burlington, and where they're headed in the future.

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Preservation Burlington: CEDO and The Neighborhood Project 03/22/2018

Burlington Community and Economic Development Office Director Noelle McKay discusses the organization's work with Preservation Burlington on The Neighborhood Project.

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Preservation Burlington: The Neighborhood Project 01/02/2018

Liisa Reimann and Ron Wanamaker welcome Burlington Ward 8 City Councilor Adam Roof to outline the city's and allied groups' exciting "Neighborhood Project" focusing on livability issues.

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For more information on The Neighborhood Project visit burlingtonvt.gov/CEDO/The-Neighborhood-Project.

Preservation Burlington: Preserving Lakeview Cemetery 10/26/2017

Liisa and Ron assess the damage and restoration plans for the gate around Burlington, Vermont's Lakeview Cemetery.

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Liisa Reimann Rivera - Originally from England, Liisa has lived in Burlington since 2006. She earned her Master's in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont and is a principal with Blue Brick Preservation. Liisa lives in a 1954 ranch house, whose historic wooden windows she thinks are of a genius design seldom seen since, in Burlington's New North End. Liisa's passions include historic industrial buildings, firehouses and little-known builder-architects of the vernacular landscape.

Ron Wanamaker - Ron has been a member of the Board since 2007 and has served as Vice President and President. A passionate preservationist, he continues to serve on the Education Committee for Preservation Burlington and is also a member of Burlington’s Design Advisory Board. A contractor since 1988, he has lived and worked in Burlington since 1998 and managed Wanamaker Restoration as well as Champlain Valley Millworks.