The Pope's Encyclical

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The Pope's Encyclical

I was in tears two paragraphs in.  I strongly suggest that someone at Cobb Hill print a copy and people begin reading it.  I would like to convene a discussion group when I return in August.  He is a leader for our times and I am so grateful that he is using his pulpit to create “a conversion” of those that have been dallying on the sidelines watching.   I have never believed that the Pope is a Divine selection by God.  I have scoffed at Catholics who buy this story.  Tonight as I read, I am doubting my own doubts.  I am now thinking that there might be such a thing as Divine Intervention. What I'm realizing is that we need to continue to keep up with the New Story that is happening at Cobb Hill in order to claim anything around our values of sustainability. 

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Milestones

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Milestones

First, during our monthly community meeting we took a moment to celebrate Alan Keitt’s 80th birthday. We stopped to remember some of Alan’s many contributions, including well painted buildings, the concrete floor in the machine shop, a detailed and evolving birds of Cobb Hill inventory, and much more.

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An observation on our electricity use

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Typical Vermont house electric bill is $96/ month.  The monthly bill for the trailer (fairly low use situation) is 75/month.

Our electric bills come out to be about 55/household, due to our commercials rate and investments in energy efficiency.  With cow power, our bill is about 66/household/month.

That means that with 100% renewable energy (and the double climate win of cow power where we also reduce methane emissions) our electric bills are still just 2/3 of the average home in Vermont.