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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.

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

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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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.