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.
Defining Sustainability: Homesteading
A homesteading party in Barnard, Vermont brought together many individuals focused on setting the foundation sill, knee brace and first floor joists in place for a new farming project founded this past year. A large group gathered to volunteer together during the course of the day, staging upon a new foundation in what once was a parcel of the founding homestead in Barnard’s rural agrarian community. A majority of the wooden structure for this timber frame was both locally and sustainably harvested with the guidance of a neighborhood forester and milled by the homesteaders’ hands on site.
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
The Aurora Borealis shines in red with hints of green in the Western sky during the autumn of 2001 over Silver Lake in Barnard, Vermont, United States.
© Copyright 2011 Seth Butler. All Rights Reserved. http://www.sethbutler.com
defining sustainability
Community Building
A harvest party organized by Fable Farm CSA in Barnard, Vermont to clear the remainder of their fields after the first snow of the year. Over thirty individuals from the town and surrounding communities volunteered together to harvest a bumper crop of approximately 2500 pounds of organic carrots which would be donated to local farm-to-school programs, individuals and families in need of food, with any remainder allocated to winter storage in local roots cellars to help support farm community members.
These images are part of a long-form documentary project I have undertaken on sustainable living in Vermont with the working title: Defining Sustainability
Photographs © Copyright 2011 Seth Butler. All Rights Reserved.
vermonters opposing tar sands pipeline
Vermont Govenor Peter Shumlin addressed an estimated 1000 Vermonters gathered for the 350.org Moving Planet event on the State House lawn in Montpelier, Vermont. The Montpelier event was one of over 2000 such gatherings that took place in approximately 175 countries on September 24th, 2011 in the interest of transitioning the world beyond fossil fuels to a clean energy future.
Photo: © Copyright 2011 Seth Butler. All Rights Reserved.
After recent outreach from David Stember and other members of 350 Vermont, Governor Peter Shumlin has written a letter opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Excerpt from the letter:
I oppose the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline project… We need to find sources that will mitigate the impacts of climate change as much as possible for Vermont and the United States.
Our nation must come together to find local, clean, renewable energy to reduce our carbon footprint and spur the economy. Due to the number of major environmental and public health hazards possible in the Keystone XL Pipeline project, the cost of building an oil pipeline across many of our nations most economically and environmentally important aquifers, natural lands and wetlands is too great at this time.
350 Vermont is an important part of Tar Sands Action, bringing busloads of Vermonters to voice opinions in Washington, DC after the state was recently hit by Tropical Storm Irene.
Sign up for the Tar Sands Action: http://www.tarsandsaction.org/next-steps
An estimated 1000 Vermonters gathered for the 350.org Moving Planet event on the State House lawn in Montpelier, Vermont. The Montpelier event was one of over 2000 such gatherings that took place in approximately 175 countries on September 24th, 2011 in the interest of transitioning the world beyond fossil fuels to a clean energy future.
Vermonters walked and bicycled from all corners of the state, some covering nearly half the state on foot to make an inspired statement in support of expediting the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. A number of very moving speakers including Gabrielle Stebbins, Director of Renewable Energy Vermont (REV), Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders came to discuss redoubling efforts in the state to transition away from fossil fuels in the face of climate change. Vermont has recently seen a dramatic transition in it’s local climate, due to significantly wetter and warmer climactic averages, especially being evidenced by the recent deluge the state suffered from Tropical Storm Irene.
Tibetan Buddhism Work featured in Angkor Photo Festival
I am humbled to be included with such an astounding group of photographers & photojournalists in the 2011 Angkor Photo Festival. A selection of my work from the Amdo & Kham Provinces of Eastern Tibet will be exhibited in a series of features curated by Angkor Photo Festival program director Jean-Yves Navel.
A hearty thank you to all who voted to make Beekeepers Harvesting Honeycomb near Fair Haven, Vermont the Photo of the Day for July 28 on Capture My Vermont.
