Vermont

The Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, VT is joining the Eco-Libris bookstores program. Customers will have the opportunity to pay $1 to plant a tree to balance every book they purchase in the store.

Stay tuned, this is another illustration of your tax dollars at work, and maybe this time, for the good.

IBM has developed a new environmentally-friendly process that repurposes scrap semiconductor material for internal reuse and eventual recycling to the silicon-constrained solar panel industry.

The output of the Searsburg wind energy facility in Vermont is only around 21% of its capacity. A new facility in the same area, in the Green Mountain National Forest, should not be expected to perform much better.

Derek Walker, Deputy Directory of State Climate Initiative, Environmental Defense, offers his take on a Vermont court ruling against the auto industry in allowing California and 14 other states to begin selling cleaner cars.

A great video on how a sustainable economy can work. Shows what people in Vermont are doing now to be sustainable. Very inspiring.

Virginia Lyons, Vermont State Senator, talks about Vermont's efforts to deal with climate change.