Climate Change
Living with Climate Chaos: Philosophical Considerations with Mike Ashooh
For the next several months, the Pierson Library is teaming up with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee on a new series of programs called Living with Climate Chaos. Each event will focus on a different component of our unique existential crisis--an earth with rapidly swaying climate changes and extreme weather conditions. To kick things…
Living with Climate Chaos: Ethan Tapper Author Talk–How to Love a Forest
The second program in our Living with Climate Chaos series is an evening with Ethan Tapper, forester and author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. Tapper will discuss his thought-provoking new book, which reexamines forest management and highlights the delicate balance between action and restraint in environmental…
Living with Climate Chaos: Gardening with Native Plants with Charlotte Albers
The next talk in our Climate Chaos series sees us exploring regional gardening in the face of increasingly extreme weather fluctuations. Flooding, erosion, drought--little is off the table any longer for the local green thumbs. Come learn about tough, resilient native plants that can help solve problems at your home and enhance local biodiversity. Charlotte…
Living with Climate Chaos: State Climatologist Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
Extreme weather conditions, accelerating climate change, increased frequency and complexity of natural disasters. Climate chaos is a unique and ongoing daily reality which has indelibly imprinted the 21st century. Our series with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee on its impacts, features and functions, continues this month with a presentation from Vermont's State Climatologist Dr.…