Monday, April 29th

Welcomes from CAV and the Director of the VT ANR Climate Action Office, and the State of the State of Organics in Vermont

• 0:00-1:49 Introduction to VORS 2024, Natasha Duarte, CAV Director

• 1:49-6:35 Welcome from CAV, Dan Goossen, CAV President

• 6:35-30:35 Welcome from VT ANR Climate Action Office, Jane Lazorchak, Director

  • Download the slide deck (pdf)

  • Link shared: ClimateChange.vermont.gov/calendar

• 30:35-1:06:58 State of the State of Organics in Vermont, Emma Stuhl, VT ANR/DEC

  • Download the slide deck (pdf)

Keynote address from Dr. Sally Brown: “Compost, one way to say thanks.”

• 0:00-1:38 Introduction by Dan Goossen, CAV President

• 1:38-32:02 Keynote from Dr. Sally Brown

  • Download the slide deck (pdf)

• 32:00-55:30 Q&A with Dr. Sally Brown

• Resources shared:

  • Connections: Food Waste And Landfill Methane Report — A Giant Step On A Long Road (BioCycle, January 2024)

  • Connections: Household Food Waste Gadgets (BioCycle, April 2022)

  • Connections: What Is NOT Compost (BioCycle, March 2023)

  • Soil Health Institute

  • Connections: EOM Is The Key To SOM (BioCycle, March 2021)

  • Connections: Why Regenerative Agriculture Needs Recycled Organics (BioCycle, May 2020)

  • Connections: Plants Speak The Truth (BioCycle, April 2024)

  • ‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the farmers facing ruin in Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis (The Guardian, March 2022)

A huge thanks to ORCA Media for covering Monday’s sessions! The videos are available on their website and below.

Unfortunately, there were unrecoverable issues with the video from the jumping worms session. Here is a link to the slide deck (PDF) from Maryam and Penny.

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