Climate

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…

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…

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.…