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Green Up Day is coming this Saturday, May 1. Continuing a 51-year tradition, this is the day when volunteers from all over the state pitch in to pick up trash along Vermontâs roadways.
How does Green-Up Day work? Fill your bag with paper, cans, and roadside trash. With COVID in mind, volunteers are asked to wear a mask and remember social distancing. Bright clothes and facing oncoming traffic helps cars avoid you. Insect repellent, gloves and boots protect against dirt and ticks. Children should tell adults if they find medical waste. (Use gloves and pliers or tongs to pick up needles and secure in a thick plastic container, ideally marked Medical Waste.)
Lawson’s Finest Liquids adds solar canopy project
Lawson s Finest Liquids is celebrating Earth Day a few days early this year, unveiling plans on Thursday, April 15, for a 495-module solar canopy at its brewery and taproom in Waitsfield. Lawson’s Finest has partnered with SunCommon, a local firm that has been providing solar energy solutions to clients in Vermont and New York since 2012. The fully-permitted project is already underway and the brewery expects it to be completed this summer.
“We’re constantly looking at ways to reduce our environmental impact, and this exciting solar canopy project represents another important milestone in our sustainability journey,” said Sean Lawson, founder and CEO of Lawson’s Finest Liquids. “Investing in renewable energy is super important to us as a part of our Green is Grand initiative, and we’re proud to continually focus on efficiency, while taking innovative steps to minimize our impact in a resource-intensive manufact
BRATTLEBORO Burton Car Wash is sponsoring a fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday to benefit Green Up Vermont, the annual statewide volunteer effort to pick up litter
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