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Descending the Peak
The table at the back of the Hayes Room in Montpelier’s Kellogg-Hubbard Library holds a colorful bounty of prepared dishes. There’s a pot of venison chili, a slab of broccoli quiche, a loaf of freshly...
View ArticleNature Calling
With all of the focus these days on the coming devastation of global warming, it’s hard to remember that the natural world, however compromised, is still teeming with life. Two new books about...
View ArticleAuthor-Activist Bill McKibben Gets "Disobedient" About Climate Change
Not too many Distinguished Scholars at Middlebury College get arrested at the White House gates. But that’s what Bill McKibben, who’s also a Harvard grad, intends to do August 20 at the start of a...
View ArticleWaitsfield and Warren, 5 Days After Irene [VIDEO]
9/2/11 - Eva tours Waitsfield and Warren with local resident Tracy Martin. Although only five days had passed since the flooding, much progress had already been made and American Flatbread is open for...
View ArticleLet the Sun Shine In
Last week in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Energy opened its Solar Decathlon, a biennial collegiate competition to design and build completely solar-powered houses. Twenty finalists from...
View ArticleHigh-Rolling Obama Supporter Threatens to Pull the Plug Over Pipeline
Bill McKibben got the president’s attention by precipitating more than 1000 arrests outside the White House in opposition to the proposed Canada-Texas Keystone XL Pipeline. On October 17, the...
View ArticleSolar Flair
In a field in southern New Jersey, one of the nation’s largest solar farms is turning sunshine into clean energy with the help of high-tech instruments made in Vermont. The 100-acre solar array in...
View ArticleGus Speth: From the White House to the Big House
Balding, bespectacled Gus Speth stood out among the 50-odd protesters gathered at the White House gates. At 69, Speth was a couple of generations older than most of those congregated last August on the...
View ArticleFour Months After Irene [VIDEO]
12/18/11: Eva revisits Vermont people and businesses affected by Tropical Storm Irene in Warren, Waitsfield, Waterbury, Jamaica and Wilmington to see how they are faring four months later.Music: Grace...
View ArticleAs Goes Japan...
In a recent New Yorker piece about a boutique coffee grower in El Salvador, the writer cites a single source for his recap of the global history of coffee: a book written by Mark Pendergrast of...
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Totally Uncool
Over the years, climate change has gone by many names: weather disruption, climate destabilization, global warming — or global weirding — even “atmospheric cancer.” In Vermont, we might dub it the...
View ArticleNEK Snowmobile Drag Racing
1/21/12: Eva heads to an icy corn field in Lyndonville for NEK Snowmobile Drag Racing. The event is hosted by Lyndon Sno Cruisers, a non-profit organization who use the money they raise to groom their...
View ArticleLocal Filmmaking Team Takes on Lake Champlain's Toxic Bloom
If you live along Lake Champlain, you’ve heard the periodic warnings to stay out of the water. In a state known for its eco-consciousness, how did our largest lake get so polluted? And what can we do?...
View ArticleProphet and Loss
Radical environmentalist James Howard Kunstler shares an Old Testament prophetic shtick with radical abolitionist John Brown — who, not surprisingly, is one of his heroes. Just as Brown thundered...
View ArticleVT State Science & Math Fair
3/31/12: The 52nd annual VT State Science & Math Fair was held at Norwich University in Northfield last Saturday. 170 students in grades 5-12 were awarded prizes and college scholarships that add...
View ArticleMy Side of the Mountain
After years of contention, debate and construction — not to mention political theater, civil disobedience, arrests and lawsuits — the turbines are at long last turning at Kingdom Community Wind, the...
View ArticleBill McKibben Recruits Vermont for the Next Climate-War Offensive: Divest...
Bill McKibben’s new front in the fight against climate change is less about tree hugging and more about number crunching. The renowned climate activist and Vermont resident is headlining a...
View ArticleSnowmaking Is a Survival Strategy for Vermont Cross-Country Ski Areas
It’s been a good year — so far — for Vermont’s cross-country ski areas, thanks to the biggest snowfall since March 2011. But a growing number of Nordic centers are betting such snows will soon be the...
View ArticleWind-Power Opponents Question Favorable Poll Numbers
As Montpelier prepares to do battle over a proposed moratorium on industrial wind power, both sides are trying to show that public opinion is on their side. Nine state senators — five Democrats and...
View ArticleFor a North Country Paper Mill, Natural Gas Could Be a Lifesaver
What’s a paper mill to do in an age when people are less inclined to use hard copy? Get lean. That’s why International Paper’s Ticonderoga mill is offering to chip in $70 million to finance an...
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