Comments on: The View from Vermont http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-view-from-vermont EPA's Blog About Our World Tue, 21 May 2013 04:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jeffrey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-42072 Jeffrey Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:41:40 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-42072 Hi Wanda! Maybe we should get some of us outdoors one weekend in the Shenandoah. :) Doesn’t having kids change your perspective! I read that before, but boy it does it hit home more now.

]]> By: Jeffrey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-42071 Jeffrey Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:40:36 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-42071 Wade, you’re right that it’s more of a challenge than hundreds of years ago. There are definitely additional difficulties keeping our planet clean because of our modern way of life. But we’re not helpless, and while some pollution is probably inevitable, we can produce a lot less of it than we do. I’m convinced that getting people to think about reducing their waste first, for example, and only reusing and recycling what’s necessary, will greatly reduce the piles of stuff we throw out. And by showing people why they should take ownership of our environment, I’m convinced we can do better. That’s why I so strongly promote programs like Pick 5 for the Environment. Check it out! http://epa.gov/pick5

]]> By: Jeffrey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-42070 Jeffrey Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:36:41 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-42070 Hi Joan. Thanks for saying so. I feel so lucky to be able to come here each summer. And for my kids, having this be part of their very being means they appreciate what the environment means for them.

]]> By: Jeffrey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-42069 Jeffrey Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:35:42 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-42069 Hi there. I appreciate your commenting on our blog so often. I agree our cultures are different, but I believe the environment matters to all of us, from all countries.

]]> By: Jeffrey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-42068 Jeffrey Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:33:50 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-42068 Too true, Linda, about losing paradise in an instant. I grew up in Atlanta, and spent a fair amount of time in Florida. One of my favorite memories is a rainy week in Destin. We played sand volleyball every day for hours on end. It was warm, so we didn’t care that it rained. I hope all of the efforts, by EPA and many others, will quickly return the Gulf to normal.

]]> By: Jeffrey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-42067 Jeffrey Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:31:33 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-42067 Hi, Alan. We just stopped at a Williston grocery store coming home from a few days in Montreal! And we’ve eaten at the Friendly’s. :)

My mother-in-law grew up in Montpelier, and I’ve flown into Burlington over the years to get up here (my wife usually brings our kids for longer than I can stay).

It really is a special place, but I’d hope we can get those PA creeks cleaned up. Thanks for commenting!

]]> By: Alan Gregory http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-41997 Alan Gregory Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:50:46 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-41997 I enjoyed reading your piece – a lot. Heck, I now live inVermont (Williston), having moved up here from the anthracite coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania where the local creeks are contaminated by acid mine drainage. I chose to come to Vermont as it is my wife’s home state by birth. When she passed on last September, I knew fairly soon that I would not be able to stay in Pa. Before moving to the Green Mountain State, I had probably spent at least a year here in cumulative vacation days, etc. And, three years of my career in the U.S. Air Force were spent at Plattsburgh Air Force Base on the New York side of Lake Champlain. Thank you again for your nice essay.

]]> By: wade harter http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-41996 wade harter Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:34:04 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-41996 The Ah Vermont article sounds like paradise on earth. It sounds like something that existed 3 or 4 hundred years ago when several hundred thousand native americans habitated the land. Now there are several hundred million of us riding in our cars, living in our fancy houses, enjoying the convience of electricity, wearing our many changes of colorful clothing, enjoying the fredoom of air travel, trains, our many restrauants and shopping malls. Progress brings rewards but also at a cost. Some of the cost is what many label as pollution. Just think we could go back to native living.

]]> By: Joan http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-41985 Joan Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:12:05 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-41985 Jeff,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts–your cabin get-away sounds like the best place on earth, and a reminder of why protecting the environment is so important.

]]> By: armansyahardanis http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/08/the-view-from-vermont/comment-page-1/#comment-41981 armansyahardanis Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:40:42 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=9371#comment-41981 I’m at Home, Jeffrey……

In our culture, “camp” to another place on another season is rarely. I just did it decades ago when the the member of boyscout. Here, we couldn’t move and traveling with some reasons beside our culture on. We are different culture, Jeff… Your cultures are acculturation of much experiences from the other continents. Amazing! So, sense of environmental approach between us and also among of yours’ probably cannot support of EPA’s and Environmentalist community missions. I hope next, the people in the world should be mobilize and aware about environmental problems. This main point, I am not Environmentalist…. Just observer !

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