Vermont Access Network (VAN): VBSR Conference 2012 - Workshop 1: Ideas Worth Exploring - Green Energy, Agriculture and the Working Landscape

Description

Join a panel of entrepreneurs, innovative thinkers, and policy makers exploring new ways to develop green energy that benefits small to mid-size farms while also preserving Vermont’s treasured working landscape and natural resources. Can we as Vermonters create a new and better industry out of one of its most treasured existing industries, Vermont farms? Is it possible for Vermont to advance renewable energy development and create jobs while also preserving Vermont’s treasured working landscape and natural resources? This panel will consider a new paradigm of human and natural wealth sustainability by exploring possible new interfaces between energy development, land use, and farming. We will identify the lever points, look at potential new funding mechanisms, consider new tax benefits for public purposes, and highlight the benefits of working together. We have assembled a panel of experts and the organizations they represent to talk about what is now happening and examine opportunities for the future. This Program was taped at the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility conference at Mount Snow, Vermont.