To what degree is #Vermont's electric grid dependent on fossil fuels? As it turns out, the answer is ... complicated!! A few takeaways🧵⬇️

Beautiful sun pillar this morning #Vermont #sunrise

Looking forward to this conversation later today. The world needs more brave and innovative thinking for how economic systems can work better for people and planet. 💡 🌎 🤝 Gund Institute for Environment

What's the state of nature in the US? Out today, I have a new ESA Frontiers Editorial with Heather Tallis and Allison Crimmins on the open opportunity for the public to help shape the U.S. Global Change Research Program's first-ever National Nature Assessment. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe… #NNA

Announcing exciting new additions to our Senior Leadership Team: Karen Doyle Grossman, incoming Executive Director, Stephen Posner, Director of the Institute’s Pathways to Planetary Health Initiative; and Christa M. Tinari, Director of the Contemplative Based Resilience Project.

The Earth is calling for justice. BIPOC farmers and environmentalists are answering. On 3/31, join Leah Penniman Farming While Black of Soul Fire Farm + Jonathan F P Rose as they discuss cultivating communities based on #sustainability, #foodsovereignty, and #Earthwisdom. Registration⬇️

Moved by Taylor Paul’s impassioned words See Change Sessions. Talk about community empowerment. RVA League for Safer Streets is not sitting on the sidelines. lifteconomy.com/blog/taylor-pa…

Inner dimensions of planetary health are about relationships, conscious connection with ourselves and the world, and integrating ways of knowing and being. Looking forward to joining a panel with Dr. Renee Lertzman Sheryl Petty Change Elemental and Kristin Barker One Earth Sangha!

At the 2022 The White House Tribal Nations Summit, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and @WHCEQ released first-of-its-kind government-wide Guidance on Indigenous Knowledge. Now agencies are working to elevate Indigenous Knowledge across Federal research, policy, and decision making. whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

Interested in #EcosystemServices? The draft A-4 (doc that guides federal benefit-cost analysis) mentions them 17x! OMB is taking public comments the next 60 days whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

🚨JOIN OUR TEAM!🚨 The Gund Institute for Environment at @UVMVermont is hiring two key leadership positions: ➡️Director of Policy & Partnerships ➡️Director of Operations & Programs 📩APPLY NOW: go.uvm.edu/1v750 #uvm #greenjobs #vtpoli #highered #vt

Our co-founder @jonathanfprose was recently joined by Soul Fire Farm's Leah Penniman, for a conversation on how #farming and living in #deepconnection with the land can heal and fortify the planet and ourselves. Read + watch more: garrisoninstitute.org/blog/leah-penn…

What’s happening this season?

The Garrison Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Posner as the new Director of our Pathways to Planetary Health initiative.

Exciting news! The UVM Institute for #Agroecology has officially launched! Join us to seed just and sustainable food systems through participatory action research, equity-centered work, and global connections. #FoodSovereignty #SoilHealth uvm.edu/agroecology/an…

We're excited to discuss "Connected Consciousness for Planetary Health" w/ amazing speakers incl. Terry TerryTempestWilliams of Planetary Health Alliance's Constellation Project and Garrison Institute's Stephen Posner -- see you around the Campfire! Still time to register: bit.ly/3LyDQls

Can Traditional Activism Truly Birth a New and Better World if it is Fraught with the Very Flaws it Seeks to Amend? Join us on 6/16 to learn the answer with @bayoakomolafe and Dr. Angel Acosta: events.blackthorn.io/en/5f7FDzT7/vi…

When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order. - Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning chemist How does this apply to sustainable thinking? Read Stephen Posner's new blog.