Addison Co Conservation Congress

Reading materials from

Addison County in Transition:
Visioning Our Community in 2020 and
Mapping the Next Steps to Get There

Some articles of interest:

Middlebury Creative Communities Program: Final Report and Action Plan: July 2007 (PDF)
Council on the Future of Vermont: Middlebury and Addison County Community
Forum Notes, April 17, 2008 (PDF)
Addison County Relocalization Network (ACoRN)
World Oil Health Check: Interview with Fatih Birol, chief economist with the International Energy Agency
(website)
Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near (PDF)
by James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Story of Stuff: A 20-minute animation on consumerism
Interview with David Walker, former Comptroller General of the U.S. on the unsustainability of U.S. finances
Cradle to Cradle: Re-making the Way We Make Things - Regenerative Design (website)
Cradle to Cradle Certification (website)
Transition Culture: An evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent
"2030" from The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependence to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement (PDF)
Please note: This is large file (5MB) and will take some time to download if on dial-up internet service.
The Principles of Permaculture (website)
What is Permaculture? (website)
The Agrarian Standard by Wendell Berry (website)
If Nature had Rights by Cormac Cullinan (website)