Mar
30
2014
By Logan Crawford
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The latest unemployment numbers are out in Vermont. They come at a time when Governor Peter Shumlin is pushing to create jobs in the state.
"We have the fifth lowest unemployment rate in America, the lowest...
Mar
27
2014
By Duane Peterson
There’s a new way for Vermont’s values-led businesses to show their stripes while improving their impact at the same time. It’s a certification program called BCorp which now does for businesses what organic does for food, Fair Trade for...
Mar
24
2014
WATERBURY — SunCommon, a Waterbury Center solar company, is among more than 90 businesses around the world chosen by the nonprofit B Lab as being among companies that earned the top scores in the B Impact Assessment, “a rigorous...
Jan
02
2014
Solar developers, state and local officials and 260 middle-schoolers gathered on December 12 to flip the switch and energize the largest school solar system in Vermont. Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury is now the home of two solar...
Dec
17
2013
Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury now has Vermont's largest school solar array.
Governor Peter Shumlin and others threw the switch on the 157-kilowatt solar array Thursday. It is the largest such system at a school in Vermont.
Shumlin was joined...
Dec
17
2013
Solar developers, state and local officials, and 260 middle schoolers gathered Thursday to flip the switch and energize the largest school solar system in Vermont. Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury is now the home of two solar arrays,...
Dec
13
2013
Gov. Peter Shumlin and others threw the switch on the system Thursday, inaugurating the 157-kilowatt solar array, the largest such system at a school in the state.
Shumlin was joined by state and local officials and representatives of the solar...
Dec
13
2013
DUXBURY, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Green Mountain Power President Mary Powell inaugurated the largest solar array at a Vermont school Thursday, throwing the switch on the 157-kilowatt device at the Crossett Brook Middle School in...
Dec
13
2013
Note: This piece was written by Jamison Ervin of Waterbury LEAP, the town energy committee serving Waterbury and Duxbury and Suncommon's partner on the Solar for Scholars program.
By now, most travelers along Route 100, and certainly anyone with a...
Nov
08
2013
When Duane Peterson’s dad returned from combat in World War II, he settled in Southern California. “So I was born in Los Angeles,” the younger Peterson explained, “but I’m still a nice person.”
His father died when he was still...