Join the Austerity Party & Vermont enables towns to finance home efficiency, renewables

By Carl Etnier, originally published by Equal Time Radio

August 9, 2011

Frequent guest Sharon Astyk declared a “riot for austerity” in 2007, which isn’t a riot at all. She led people from around the world in a voluntary effort to reduce their resource use by 90%. She is now starting up the “riot” again, and she invites you to join her in saving resources, saving money, and–perhaps surprisingly–having fun. Join the new riot for austerity at Astyk’s main blog, at Science Blogs, or on Facebook.

Peter Adamczyk, Energy Finance and Development Manager at Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC) talks about how the state’s newly revised PACE program can help towns help their home owners save money through energy efficiency and renewables.

Carl Etnier hosts.

Carl Etnier

Tags: Building Community, Electricity, Media & Communications, Renewable Energy

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Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.

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By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence

Two ways we can honor unions at this time of trial are to ask others to join union picket lines and to learn from their innovations and successes for whatever campaigns we are committed to today.

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By Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World

In this post, I examine differences in economic behaviour by comparing two types of periods: those with low energy affordability and those with high energy affordability.

August 26, 2026

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