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Our goal is to serve as an instrument for relationship building and communication, and to encourage the conversation around resiliency, equity and justice. Our intention is to celebrate life and community - and to help create conditions for all life to thrive.

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Paul Carnahan

This episode features Paul Carnahan. Librarian of the Vermont Historical Society (VHS) from 1990 to 2022. Paul currently serves on Montpelier’s Historic Preservation Commission and the board of the Montpelier Historical Society. He recently became part of Montpelier’s Commission for Recovery and Resiliency, offering a historical perspective on Montpelier, as the Commission envisions a resilient future.Paul worked with Montpelier Alive to create the Bridges of Montpelier slideshow, an am...

37 min
AUG 6

Pat Moulton, Central Vermont Recovery Officer

Today on the podcast we welcome Pat Moulton. In November of 2023 Pat was appointed by Governor Phil Scott as the Central Vermont Recovery Officer for the State of Vermont.The Recovery Office is the state-level entity tasked with coordinating available federal funds and local mitigation and community revitalization work. Pat is the first geographic appointee to the office, focusing on central Vermont and the Winooski River watershed.Pat has 40 years of experience in economic development a...

50 min
JUN 25

Paul Costello

Today we welcome Paul Costello, the former Executive Director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development. Paul retired from this position in 2021. Lifetime Vermonter, Paul dedicated most of his career to helping Vermont towns and cities build community, identify goals and visions and build strategies to accomplish these goals. On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the state of Vermont, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city,...

39 min
MAY 20

Jon Copans, The Commission for Recovery and Resilience

Today we welcome Jon Copans, the Executive Director of The Commission for Recovery & Resilience.On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the state of Vermont, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city, Montpelier, underwater.Immediately following the flood, Paul Costello, the former executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, worked with the City of Montpelier, The Montpelier Foundation and Montpelier Alive, to c...

38 min
MAY 16

Hans Estrin, UVM's Ecological Planning Laboratory

Today we welcome Hans Estrin from the University of Vermont’s Ecological Planning Laboratory. Hans talks about his childhood days in the Plainfield/Marshfield, VT area, describes the trajectory of his career and gives a glimpse of the Ecological Planning Laboratory emerging out the UVM.The Ecological Planning Laboratory helps communities tackle vital projects on their land, offering long-term support in partnership with UVM Extension and the Field Naturalist graduate program. Ecological manag...

40 min
JAN 30

Ben Doyle & Aly Richards, The Montpelier Commission for Recovery & Resilience

Today on the podcast we welcome Ben Doyle and Aly Richards, from The Commission for Recovery and Resilience.On July 11th, 2023, intense and widespread rainfall led to catastrophic flooding throughout the State, leaving the entire downtown of the capitol city, Montpelier, underwater.As the flood-waters resided, Paul Costello, the former executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, worked with the City of Montpelier, The Montpelier Foundation and Montpelier Alive, to convene ...

50 min
JAN 5

Flood Series - Daphne Larkin & Beth Rusnock, The National Life Group

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster.This episode features Beth Rusnock, president of the National Life Group Foundation and Daphne Larkin, Communications and Media Relations Director of the National Life Group.Beth Rusnock says that the National Life Group wants to make sure that "the communities that their campuses are a part of - that they are vibrant. That they are places where our employees want to live, want to be a par...

35 min
12/21/2023

Flood Series - Katie Trautz, Montpelier Alive

The Bordertown Flood series tells the stories of Central Vermonters experiencing the 2023 flood disaster.This episode feature Katie Trautz, the Executive Director of Montpelier Alive.Katie describes that Montpelier is not set-up as a resilient town in terms of systems, however, the community is extremely song. And that community resilience is most important. Not every place has a community that is this strong.Katie says, "I really think that organizations like Montpelier Alive are there...

31 min

Our goal is to serve as an instrument for relationship building and communication, and to encourage the conversation around resiliency, equity and justice. Our intention is to celebrate life and community - and to help create conditions for all life to thrive.

Creator

Vic Guadagno
Years Active

2023 - 2024
Episodes

64
Rating

Clean
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