The other day I was in a meeting with the Montpelier City Planner and she mentioned two rumors to me, which I am blatantly going to spread.
1) It sounds like Olympia, Washington and Montpelier, Vermont are going to begin a friendly competition to see which can be the first sustainable state capital.
2) Supposedly Google has plans to announce an extremely large grant to address sustainability needs in state capitals. Like seven or eight figures big. Yea.
... ok, it is just a rumor, but it's fun to imagine what we could do with eight figures specified just for sustainability. Also, who gets to make the rules for the Montpelier vs. Olympia competition? Who knows - but that's not the point, is it?
What does it mean for Montpelier to be sustainable? There are so many facets to sustainability that it's hard to imagine a truly complete picture of it. But that is just what UVM professor Diane Gayer, her class of students, and a number of my students intend to look at. We're collaborating on a city planning project that will hopefully sketch out a more sustainable Montpelier. We'll start with our own ideas and then this collaboration of college and high school students (plus Diane, Gwen Hallsmith, and I) will host a city-wide meeting to invite the ideas of residents. We start March 26th, and the city-wide meeting will be April 12th, so I'll let you know how it goes!
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