Carl Etnier has worked on sustainability issues all his life, with a 17-year career in sustainable water and wastewater. He is director of Peak Oil Awareness, an organization devoted to stimulating conversations about peak oil.

April 17, 2008
Guests: 1) Allen Gilbert, director of the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, on the forum, "Whosespace?  The Changing Law And Culture Of Privacy In The Wired Age." 2) Bob Atchinson, chair of the education committee of the Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition, on Bike Education.


April 10, 2008
Guest host: Thomas Weiss.

April 3, 2008
Guests: 1) Paul Costello, director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, on their Creative Communities report. 2) Jon Groveman, water program director of Vermont Natural Resources Council, on the groundwater protection bill and Maude Barlow's visit to Vermont on April 2.

February 28, 2008
Guests: Members of the Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative, an attempt by high school students to find a way for Vermonters to heat their homes with in-state, renewable resources: biomass pellets made from grasses and other materials. The guests are four participants in the initiative: Anne Watson, Montpelier High School physics teacher; Lucia Bragg, student in Montpelier; Jessie-Ruth Corkins, student in Bristol; Thomas Dickerson, student in Bristol.

February 21, 2008
Guests: 1) Avram Patt, executive director of Washington Electric Cooperative, on the details of electrical power generation from methane gas at Coventry landfill. 2) Audio excerpts from Sarah Flack's talk on lacto-fermentation at the NOFA-Vermont Winter Conference.

February 14, 2008
Preview of the NOFA-Vermont Winter Conference.
Guests: 1) Joey Klein, of Littlewood Farm in Plainfield. 2) Annie McCleary of the Wisdom of the Herbs School.

February 7, 2008
Guests: 1) Todd Bailey, executive director of Vermont Alliance of Conservation Voters, on Citizen Action Day in the State House. 2) Ross Conrad, author of Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture.


January 31
Guests: Bill Powell and Avram Patt of Washington Electric Cooperative, on a new initiative to help customers save electricity and money and the growing production of electricity at Coventry landfill.

January 24, 2008
Guest: Will Patten, Executive Director of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, on the organization's legislative priorities.

January 17, 2008
Guest: Ken Jones, Montpelier Energy Team. Contact the Montpelier Energy Team at 229-6070.

The Vermont web page that Bucky Buckaw mentioned on the economics of backyard chicken raising is:
http://www.gatewaytovermont.com/thefarm/chickens.htm

January 10, 2008
Guests: Ken Matzner and Anni Campbell on Montpelier Cohousing.

January 3, 2008
Guests: Jérôme a Paris, author in the series, Countdown to $100 Oil
Peter Harvey, a backyard pig farmer in Calais, on state laws that keep him from selling pigs he has slaughtered in his back yard.
Amy Shollenberger, director of Rural Vermont, on Rural Vermont's legislative agenda.
All three interviews are in the Relocalizing Vermont archive.

December 27, 2007
No guests. Segments of other shows or interviews were broadcast, including:
Henry Groppe: IEA to blame for $100 oil spike
Frances Moore Lappé speaking about her new book, Get a Grip, on Writer's Voice. Produced by Francesca Rheannon at WMUA
Wally Satzewich and Roxanne Christensen on SPIN (Small Plot INtensive) Farming. From Sounds Like Canada

December 20, 2007
Guest: Elizabeth Courtney, Vermont Natural Resources Council

December 13, 2007
Guest: Lee Blackwell, who has responded to peak oil by starting Blackwell Roots farm in Cabot.

December 6, 2007
Guest: Tim Stevenson, from the Brattleboro Regional Peak Oil Task
Force and Post-Oil Solutions. Contact Tim at
info[at]postoilsolutions.org or visit www.postoilsolutions.org .