BENNINGTON Bennington County Window Dressers is recruiting volunteers to help assemble high quality, re-usable insulating window inserts for area residents. The annual Community Build in Bennington will run from
buildings. cnn chief correspondent bill weir is here to talk more about this impact. and bill, this is big for climate advocates. but millions of people rely on gas to warm their home or to cook with. reporter: absolutely. it s a very emotional thing, cooking over fire. it s primal. people love the idea of a furnace burning in the basement to keep them warm or they like the way their food cooks. it s a cultural thing. but there is no doubt, the science is showing us, that those choices are heating up the planet at sort of a scary rate. all put together, buildings account for about 20% of carbon planet cooking carbon pollution, as well. this is part of a wave of electrification across the country. new york the first state, but there s about 90 municipalities and counties, the first was berkeley, california, couple years ago. but interestingly enough, a couple weeks ago, the ninth circuit court of appeals struck down their ban on gas hookups to new buildings there. but there s other
Would you rather drown in a flood or burn in a forest fire? Fortunately, the Democrats and President Joe Biden have passed and signed the Inflation Reduction Act which earmarks $369 billion for energy initiatives to combat climate change. This gives some hope that you will neither drown nor burn. We have found more hope right here in Bennington. Last January, our Climate Advocates of Bennington group helped start a student club at MAUHS called the Climate Change Initiative. We asked teacher Dylan Wajda-Levie to be the faculty advisor/mentor and we are so fortunate that he accepted. Students were recruited