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Judy Dow: Going Through the Narrows
Judy Dow is an educator who serves as the director of Gedakina, a non-profit multigenerational endeavor to strengthen and revitalize the cultural knowledge and identity of Native American youth and...
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Lauren Hierl: Voting in a Pandemic
Lauren Hierl is Executive Director of Vermont Conservation Voters, VNRC’s partner organization. VCV works to elect environmentally-friendly candidates to public office, and then holds elected...
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Pandemic Rush to Vermont Highlights Future Climate Migration Issues
Elena Mihaly is a Senior Attorney working in the Clean Air and Water Program and Community Resilience Program at the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). Kate McCarthy is Sustainable Communities Program...
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Growing Food Sovereignty, Equity, and Social Capital
Amber Arnold and Naomi Doe Moody lead the SUSU Healing Collective in Brattleboro, Vermont. Learn more about the BIPOC Land and Food Sovereignty Fund at gofundme.com/f/bipoc-healing-foods-fund. Lydia...
View ArticleAnnual summit for conservation commissions begins virtually on September 23
The Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions (AVCC) will hold its Annual Summit, Conservation in the Time of COVID-19, as an online series beginning on September 23. The program will consist of...
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Here’s how to rebuild a resilient Vermont
We can create a more resilient, equitable, inclusive and vibrant Vermont. In December, The Nature Conservancy in Vermont, in partnership with VNRC and other organizations, released a platform around...
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VNRC & VCV applaud proposals in Governor’s 2021 budget address
The Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) and Vermont Conservation Voters (VCV) applaud a number of Governor Scott’s proposals in his 2021 budget address, particularly a suite of proposals to...
View ArticleTransportation for Vermonters releases 2021 policy agenda
Click here to read our 2021 policy agenda. Our main agenda items in 2021 are to: Make fare-free transit permanent Fund transit agencies to continue fare-free operations, and ensure sufficient overall...
View ArticleHighlighting our 2021 Budget Priorities
Today, VNRC and several partner organizations delivered a letter to the House Appropriations Committee highlighting a number of priorities within the 2021 State budget, including ones that directly...
View ArticleVNRC responds to Governor’s budget announcement on American Rescue Plan Act...
This week Governor Phil Scott presented a plan to invest $1 billion in one-time federal money from the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to address climate change, clean water,...
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