Vision
- Reduce reliance on fossil fuels and building momentum for alternatives
- Increase use of local economy
- Work for legislative change
Our current campaigns
- Pollinator-friendly yards to preserve our food supply
- Rewilding through the planting of trees in urban spaces to increase biodiversity, reduce the risk of pests & diseases, & remove carbon from the atmosphere
- Bicycle program to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels & to boost the independence of the low-income folk who are most vulnerable to climate change
- Reduce food waste to cut the emission of harmful gases
Past Accomplishments
- 2024 Roots to Resilience Garden Walk
- 2024 Pollinator Pathway of Addison County Talk
- 2021-present Allen Street School partnership – building a compost system, providing cooking & trail maintenance classes, & building an edible & pollinator-friendly landscape
- 2023-present Free bike distribution/repair
- 2023-present No Mow May
- 2022-present Vermont Farmers Food Center collaboration on clean-up
- 2023-present Habitat for Humanity volunteering
- 2022-present Standing Trees collaboration to save Telephone Gap
- 2022-present No Coal/No Gas support (to close the last coal-powered plant in New England)
- 2022-present Boosting awareness of links between climate change and ongoing colonialism
- 2021-present Tree-planting across Rutland County
- 2019-present Campaigns to urge passage of climate-friendly legislation
- 2020-2021 Composting workshops hosted online
- 2020 Helped to strengthen language in the Rutland City Plan to block a pipeline
- 2019-2020 Global Climate Strikes
- 2019 Earth Day Expo
- 2019 Town Resolutions to prevent the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure
- 2018 Routes to Resilience
Media
2022 collaboration with the Success School on their Edible Landscape https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/commentary/jones-success-school/article_a4dd2d73-bcc9-52bc-a9aa-550be0687342.html
2021 Rewilding tree planting project https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/local/climate-group-spearheads-planting-effort/article_3f63720b-cc32-5a3e-98d6-1d111baa8c08.html
2021 Rutland Herald Earth Day piece promoting climate change solutions https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/commentary/jones-thinking-earth-day/article_9518996c-d79b-52bf-8f9b-b5c000533c46.html
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