Amtrak is set to begin service from Burlington, VT to New York City come 2020 or 2021, but the location of where Amtrak plans to park trains overnight in Burlington remains a key issue.

Read the full article: "When Amtrak comes to Burlington, where will it park?" via Vermont Biz

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Vermont Parks Forever was recorded on 2018-04-30.

*WATCH ON TV : * You can watch this program on Channel 17/ Town Meeting Television, on Comcast Cable and Burlington Telecom at the following times: 

1 Monday April 30, 5:25 PM

2 Tuesday May  1, 7:00 PM

3 Friday May  4, 3:30 PM

4 Friday May 11, 3:30 PM

5 Friday May 18, 3:30 PM 

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Click here to read, “Vermont Remains a Hippie Epicenter” via Burlington Free Press.

Privately-owned developer Main Street Landing in Burlington, Vermont strives to stay environmentally conscious while developing property.

“We care about the effects our development has on the environment, its inhabitants, and those working in construction to create the development,” says Chief Executive Officer Melina Moulton. “We follow specific guidelines to minimize the negative effects of our work in these areas.”

Striving to promote ecological integrity, economic security, empowerment, responsibility, and social well-being has …

Click here to see The Impact of Main Street Landing

Vermont Life Magazine
Spring 2014
Melinda Moulton brings her holistic views to waterfront

Read here

Orion Magazine’s two-year Reimagining Infrastructure project takes a look at the story of Main Street Landing.

“Other people had looked at it as well—there had been more than a dozen attempts to do something with that land—but the two “old hippies” had their own ideas. …

Thirty years ago, the word sustainability did not even exist when Lisa Steele and I began our work re-developing property on the Burlington Waterfront.  There was never even a mention about the environment.  Developers told us that the windows in our buildings can’t open because of the HVAC system.  We told them we would develop buildings with operable windows because we had to follow our hearts and create buildings that “made sense”.

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The Burlington Free Press recently ran an article about the 3Squares Challenge, a program that encourages otherwise well-off individuals to feed themselves on only $36 each week – the maximum granted by the 3Squares VT program (formerly Food Stamps).

“I don’t know how people do it,” Moulton said midway through her weeklong effort to live on the same budget recipients of 3SquaresVT receive. “I am hungry a lot.”

Moulton of Huntington was among some 200 Vermonters who took the 3Squares Challenge the week before Thanksgiving. Participants agreed to live for a week on an average food stamp budget that boils down …

Classic film series returns this month at Main Street Landing. Check out the schedule here.

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