"How to force people to change just because" was my favorite class in Environut University.

If you french fry when you're supposed to pizza, you're gonna have a bad day.

Good! More real, local maple syrup for those of us who know better. 😅

I was gonna make a comment about Taco Bell being top of Mexican restaurant polls because it's ubiquitous even if not anywhere near authentic. Same here. People around the rest of the country are raised on fake syrup and look for that fakeness as if it is what real maple syrup actually tastes like.

Huh, go figure. Brave Little State now has a question about this up in its new voting round. https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state

If we could just add a second departure time from Rutland to Burlington (and NYC) each day, that would be cool. But, connecting Rutland to Montreal would be cool too.

This is an unexpected reaction and I am totally in favor of it. Tip of the lid to you. Not enough critique of graphic design these days.

I think you're right and that people conflate sequestration (rate of carbon taken out of the atmosphere per some unit of time) with storage (total carbon locked in the forest above and below ground). I believe regenerating forests sequester more carbon and older forests have more carbon stored.

I don't doubt "environmentalist causes". I doubt causes that rally support based on narrow representations of ecological processes, redirect attention from other problems/ solutions, and disregard the greater societal context of landscape management. Sure, we can stop cutting all the trees on public land, but it's sort of pointless if that timber just has to come from private land instead. I guess we could stop building things out of timber, but I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that concrete and steel are more sustainable materials.

Is that happening on the National Forest?

Sort of ironic that their messaging seems to revolve around protecting every last tree (on public land) from being harvested for any sort of use as the primary weapon in the fight against climate change then turn around and advertise this event on ...wait for it... paper.

I mean, I voted to make slavery illegal, to secure reproductive rights, and mostly for progressives or democrats. Drumpf can get bent. I live in Rutland. So, there's at least one of us pushing against the all Trumpers stereotype.

Before we moved to Rutland, we got some information here: https://realrutland.com/

And we took advantage of their "concierge" program (virtually, though, during the pandemic).

So, did you add this review to Yelp or Google so it's easier for others to find?

Mountaintop Inn could probably set something up. https://mountaintopinn.com/