Vermont Business Magazine Middlebury’s Center for the Blue Economy (CBE) in Monterey, California, invites all Middlebury College students, staff, alumni, and friends to join a virtual lobbying effort for ocean climate action on Wednesday, April 14, via Zoom. Participants, who will be organized by state coalitions, will join fellow citizens eager to see far-reaching policy progress on ocean climate issues.
“We have an unusual opportunity on April 14 to make our voices heard by members of Congress and their staff who shape policy,” said CBE Director Jason Scorse at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. “As new climate laws are written, we want to be sure these policy makers understand and adopt job-generating equitable ocean solutions to the climate crisis. We’re hoping for all hands on deck the more of us who participate, the better our chances of success.”
A new book celebrates the return of fish to the Penobscot
Reviewed by Carl Little
Special to The Ellsworth American
You know that children’s song “Three Little Fishies” with its chorus, “And they swam swam swam right over the dam”? Were it that easy.
In Peter Taylor’s “From the Mountains to the Sea: The Historic Restoration of the Penobscot River (Islandport Press, softbound, 146 pages, $24.95), dams stand in the way of fish 12 sea-run species to be precise and their survival. The removal or circumvention of said structures lies at the heart of this inspiring account of river restoration.
The book opens with a vision of a pre-dam waterway filled with fish, followed by Penobscot tribal elder Butch Phillips’ account of the history of how the river was used and abused over the centuries to the point where the Sacred Circle of Life was broken. Thanks to the Penobscot River Restoration Trust (PRRT), the rest of the story is, so to speak, all upriver.