Environment
Events
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Sustainable Salting Practices and Local Water Quality
While road salting keeps us safe on roads, sidewalks, and parking lots during winter, it also contaminates waterways and groundwater, kills roadside vegetation, compacts soils, and allows heavy metals to move through the soil, potentially affecting drinking water wells. The good news is that municipal crews, private contractors, and individuals can all use sustainable practices that reduce the use…
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From Earth to Earth: The Lost Art of Dying in America Screening
This award-winning short documentary (20 minutes) explores the practice of natural burial and its many benefits, told through the voices of advocates who helped legalize it in Vermont. The film also shares personal reflections from individuals whose experiences with natural burial have offered comfort in grieving, encouraged conversations about mortality, and chronicled the opening of…