A number of other images from the Connect The Dots event during 350.org Climate Impacts Day in Waitsfield, Vermont recently published in the Burlington Free Press
Defining Sustainability: Education
Hundreds of Vermonters gathered on May 5th, 2012 for the 350.org Climate Impacts Day, Connect The Dots event in Waitsfield, Vermont to learn about recent developments surrounding the climate crisis. Many who attended this event had spent the morning volunteering at Vermont Green Up Day activities in and around the Mad River Valley, one of the regions hardest hit by Tropical Storm Irene.
Speakers during the day’s events included 350.org founder Bill McKibben, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. The event was particularly special for many Vermonters in that it was first in a series of recent global climate action events where Bill McKibben was able to attend the day’s events in his own home state of Vermont. Climate Impacts Day included thousands of communities around the world who came together to Connect the Dots, learn, raise awareness and call for urgent action to stop the climate crisis. Keep connecting the dots
These images are part of a long-form documentary project I have undertaken on sustainable living in Vermont with the working title: Defining Sustainability
© Copyright 2012 Seth Butler. All Rights Reserved. http://www.sethbutler.com
Coconut Processing. Ben Tre, Vietnam. 2011 (A picture package out-take from a larger narrative I am developing from Vietnam under the working title The Long March)
Photographs © Copyright 2011 Seth Butler. All Rights Reserved.
Nice to see so many folks from Barnard, Vermont at Fable Farm CSA again this year.
Beekeepers harvesting honeycomb near Fair Haven, Vermont. 2009
Tristan Winpenny (left) of Pawlet, VT uses a bee smoker to calm a hive of honey bees while he works with the bee keepers of Old Mill Apiaries to harvest honeycomb which will later be extracted into raw honey. These particular hives are destined to be shipped to Georgia in the Fall, then across country to California for the Winter season, before they will make a return voyage by tractor-trailer truck to Vermont in Spring. The bee hives will be rented out to farms in California’s Central Valley where local apiaries (bee colonies) continue to suffer from a dramatic and yet unexplained die-off in bee populations known as Colony Collapse Disorder. The Honey Bee is the official Vermont State Insect and is not only responsible for producing thousands of gallons of honey each year but is also a vital source of pollination to most flowering plants and agricultural crops.
Ben Tre, Vietnam. 2011 (A recent out-take from a larger narrative I am developing under the working title The Long March.)
Ben Tre, Vietnam. 2011 (A recent out-take from a larger narrative I am developing under the working title The Long March.)
Ben Tre, Vietnam. 2011 (A recent out-take from a larger narrative I am developing under the working title The Long March.)
Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam. 2011
(A recent out-take from a larger narrative I am developing under the working title The Long March.)
Ben Tre, Vietnam. 2011 (A recent out-take from a larger narrative I am developing under the working title The Long March.)
Ben Tre, Vietnam. 2011 (A recent out-take from a larger narrative I am developing under the working title The Long March.)
