Parenteau: Is the Durban Platform a suicide pact?
Editor’s note: Vermont Law School Professor Pat Parenteau, whose expertise includes climate change, wrote the following commentary on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in...
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Welch, Sanders cautiously optimistic about Russian proposal to avert Syria...
Russia’s offer to take control of Syria’s chemical weapons might be a way out of the crisis if it proves to be “real,” Rep. Peter Welch told callers during a telephone town hall meeting Monday night....
View ArticleDunsmore: Lessons from the Cold War
Editor’s note: This op-ed by retired ABC News diplomatic correspondent Barrie Dunsmore first aired on Vermont Public Radio. All his columns can be found on his website, www.barriedunsmore.com. I...
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Vermonters join 400,000 marchers in NYC climate march
NYC Climate march, Sept. 21, 2014. Photo by Don Hooper Editor’s note: This account is by Don Hooper, northeast regional representative for the National Wildlife Federation. In anticipation of world...
View ArticleBarrie Dunsmore: Drubbing the president
Editor’s note: This commentary by retired ABC News diplomatic correspondent Barrie Dunsmore first appeared in the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus and Rutland Herald Sunday edition. All his columns can be...
View ArticleCongressional delegation reacts to latest climate change study
The global impacts of climate change will be irreversible without curbing heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels, according to the latest United Nations report. United Nations’...
View ArticleDon Keelan: The UN at 75
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Don Keelan, a retired certified public accountant and resident of Arlington. I recently asked a few of my friends who the present Secretary-General of the UN is,...
View ArticleYvonne Lodico: A strategy to continue humanitarian services in Afghanistan
This commentary is by Yvonne Lodico, founder and executive director of the Grace Initiative Global (a Vermont NGO), and 17-year United Nations staff member who served on five U.N. peacekeeping...
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Vermont’s state climatologist speaks at UN climate conference
Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Vermont’s climatologist, speaks on a virtual panel at COP26 on Monday, Nov. 1. Screenshot by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Vermont’s state climatologist,...
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Leahy to represent Congress at United Nations’ General Assembly meeting this...
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy speaks during a press conference in Montpelier on Thursday, October 14, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VT Digger President Joe Biden has nominated Vermont’s senior U.S. Sen....
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Vermont Afghans celebrate Nowruz, hope for a sweet future
Men dance as Afghan families from around the state gather in Burlington on Sunday, March 19, 2023, to celebrate Nowruz, a holiday that marks the start of spring and new year in Afghanistan. Photo by...
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Madeleine Kunin: We must leave our children with a livable Planet Earth
Olivia, from left, Victoria and Harper take a dip in the Browns River at Mills Riverside Park in Jericho as the temperature reached the low 90s in June. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger This column is...
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Barbara Zind back home in U.S. after a month trapped in Gaza
Barbara Zind, of Colorado and sister of Braintree resident Steve Zind, is back home after being trapped in Gaza for a month. In recent weeks, Barbara Zind has experienced some of the calmest mornings...
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Vermont Conversation: ‘This hideous crime did not happen in a vacuum’
Three Palestinian American men were shot in Burlington on Saturday, according to police. Family members identified them as Tahseen Aliahmad (left) Kinnan Abdalhamid (middle) and Hisham Awartani...
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Bill Schubart: My roadworthy chest freezer — Greta in winter
In 2016, for only the second time in my life, I bought a new car, an emission-free Nissan Leaf. I named it “Greta.” I recently ran into a friend who has a Tesla all-electric vehicle (EV) also named...
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Vermont Conversation: Campus protesters speak out in solidarity with Gaza
A protester rallies fellow activists at a Palestinian solidarity encampment at the University of Vermont in Burlington on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Vermont...
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