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After swapping one million light bulbs in Canada, Project Porchlight launches in the States. 36,000 CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs) are headed onto Vermont porches free of charge.

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In March 1967, Science magazine published an essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” by a UCLA history professor named Lynn White. An expert in technological innovation during the Middle Ages, White argued that the environmental crisis looming over the planet was the fault of Western Christianity, which had fostered among believers a blatant disregard for the world beyond themselves.... Read more

Just outside downtown Montpelier, at 137 Barre Street, sits an elegant, baby-blue 1898 Victorian with a rickety porch. The building looks like a home, but a sign beside the doorway reads, “Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District.”... Read more

BURLINGTON — Annie Bourdon is not a used-car salesperson, but she’ll talk fixed automotive costs and vehicle depreciation till she’s blue in the face. Why? The University of Vermont grad student is the driving force behind Green Mountain CarShare (GMCS), the state’s first “neighborhood-based” car “service.” With a little luck — and $200,000 in donations — GMCS will hit the streets of Greater Burlington in June.... Read more

This morning, as on every weekday morning, hundreds — perhaps thousands — of men and women get into their electric, hybrid or bio-fueled cars, head to their downtown offices, sit at their computers, and start to trade. For information about just what to trade and at what price, they phone or email fellow Vermonters, consultants working out of their homes or small offices scattered around the state.... Read more

STOWE — The specter of a warmer world scares a lot of people, including skiers. That’s why, when faced with the need to do a project for his bar mitzvah in May, Josh Wolfgang, 12, a ski racer from Stowe, picked a cause that hits close to home: He’s organizing the Race Against Global Warming for skiers, snowboarders and telemarkers, on February 9 at Spruce Peak.... Read more

Josh Tickell’s new film Fields of Fuel is a documentary, but it’s also an adventure story. It chronicles his cross-country journey in a van that runs on veggie oil.

In it, the 32-year-old author, public speaker and energy expert uses his “veggie van” tour to show how our dependence on oil is damaging our democracy and spoiling the environment. But Tickell also aims to inspire — he shows audiences that it’s possible, right now, to drive cars powered by something other than gasoline.... Read more

MONTPELIER — Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources Secretary George Crombie is attempting to make his agency more compatible with contemporary issues — such as global warming — by reconfiguring ANR’s three existing departments into 18 “centers.” But some say he has ruffled too many feathers in the process.... Read more

Almost 20 years ago, Ripton writer Bill McKibben’s seminal book The End of Nature warned us about the devastating effects of carbon dioxide emissions on the polar North. Alas, it’s taken a couple of decades — and oodles of heat-trapping CO2 — for Americans to get wise on Arctic matters.... Read more

I remember so well the final morning hours of the Kyoto conference. The negotiations had gone on long past their scheduled evening close, and the convention-center management was frantic — a trade show for children’s clothing was about to begin, and every corner of the vast hall still was littered with the carcasses of the sleeping diplomats who had gathered in Japan to draw up a first-ever global treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. But when word finally came that an agreement had been reached, people roused themselves with real enthusiasm — lots of backslapping and hugs.... Read more