Bordertown

Bordertown

The Bordertown Podcast tells the personal stories of those on the front lines of ecological, social and economic change.

Episodes

Episode 31 - Bennett Shapiro

April 20, 2020 • 32 mins
This week our guest is Bennett Shapiro of Madtch Sound. If you go to a live music event in this area, you are bound to see Bennett, walking around with his magic tablet, making things sound good. We talk to Bennett about his journey as a sound engineer, the music scene in central Vermont and his ideas about integrating our live podcast into the Rabble-Rouser Chocolate Factory and Community Center.
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Episode 30 - Rabble Rouser Creative Vision with Jaquelyn Rieke

April 20, 2020 • 41 mins
This episode is a conversation about how the Bordertown podcast aligns with the Rabble Rouser creative vision. Our guest is the founder of Nutty Steph’s and one of the visionary’s behind Rabble Rouser, Jaquelyn Rieke. She will provide background on the formation of the Rabble Rouser, collaboratively-owned Chocolate Factory and Community Center, and discuss the creative vision. Vic Guadagno will discuss ecomedia and the goals of the...
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Episode 29 - Rabble Rouser - Opening Celebration

April 20, 2020 • 40 mins
In this episode we join the Rabble Rouser community at their launch party. We hear from Jaquelyn Rieke (aka Nutty Steph), the visionary behind this undertaking. We also hear from Bill Kaplan, forward thinking landlord with a strong commitment to community. We speak with just a few of the folks behind the building renovation, architect Tolya Stonorov, woodworker Eyrich Stauffer painter/artist Hans Stewart. We chat briefly with Montp...
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Episode 42 - Skyler Perkins

April 20, 2020 • 47 mins
Skyler currently worksin Washington DC as Project Manager for the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy. He joined that organization in June, 2018, following his completion of his Masters program in Community Development and Applied Economics from the University of Vermont. Skyler also received a certificate in Ecological Economics from the Gund Institute at UVM. Skyler’s research focused on ecological economics and ...
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Episode 41 - Libby Bonesteel

April 20, 2020 • 50 mins
Libby is the Montpelier / Roxbury School District’s superintendent. Prior to that, she was Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Franklin Northwest Supervisory Union. She also has experience as a consultant, adjunct professor, teacher development coordinator, co-principal, principal, and teacher. She holds master’s degrees from Michigan State University and Columbia University’s Teachers College and a bachelor’s degree from Hob...
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Episode 40 - Michele Braun

April 20, 2020 • 43 mins
Michele Braun is the Executive Director of the Friends of the Winooski River. Michele has a Master of Science in Natural Resources Planning from the University of Vermont. She has worked as an environmental policy analyst, responsible for managing projects, designing and facilitating multi-stakeholder meetings and workshops for city and state governments, US EPA, watershed organizations, environmental health associations, and multi...
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Episode 39 - Tom Sabo

April 20, 2020 • 58 mins
Tom is an award-winning high school teacher, leading sustainability educator, prominent local food activist, and most recently the founding executive director of the Center for Sustainable Systems. He is a chief architect of a model of service learning that integrates curriculum through a school greenhouse and gardens that provide food for the school system’s lunch program, using soil derived from the cafeteria food scraps.
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Episode 38 - David Zuckerman

April 20, 2020 • 52 mins
David Zuckerman is the co-founder of Full Moon Farm, a NOFA-certified organic farm in Hinesburg, Vermont. Inspired by then Congressman Bernie Sanders, David first ran for the Vermont House in 1994 while enrolled at the University of Vermont. David served for fourteen years (1997-2010) in the Vermont House of Representatives. David served in the Vermont Senate as a Progressive/Democrat since his election in 2012. In 2016, David was ...
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Episode 37 - William Alexander

April 20, 2020 • 46 mins
William Alexander writes fantasy, science fiction, and other unrealisms for young readers. His novels include Goblin Secrets, Ghoulish Song, Ambassador and Nomad. His latest novels are the companion set A Properly Unhaunted Place and A Festival of Ghosts. He currently serves as the faculty chair of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the program in Writing for Children and Young Adults.
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Episode 33 - Janice Walrefen

April 20, 2020 • 44 mins
Janice Walrefen co-creates AllTogetherNow!, Community Arts Center in East Montpelier, with Ellen Leonard. Together they teach summer camp and produce our community seasonal pageants, parades and puppet shows. Janice has her Art Tiles clay studio, classroom, puppets and shares community gardens at AllTogetherNow! Ellen is the director of the awesome preschool at AllTogetherNow! and teaches family music classes. Their mission is to b...
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Episode 35 - Walt Poleman

April 20, 2020 • 62 mins
Walt Poleman is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Ecological Planning Program at the University of Vermont. He specializes in natural history, place-based landscape analysis, and education for sustainability. He teaches courses in natural history and human ecology, landscape inventory and assessment, and conservation science.
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Episode 36 - Jim Birmingham

April 20, 2020 • 43 mins
Jim Birmingham is the Food Service Director of the Montpelier Roxbury School District. He is a graduate of Johnson State College and attended culinary school at Le Cordon Blue, London, UK. He is an American Culinary Federation Certified Executive Chef who spent several years working in resort hotel kitchens around Stowe, VT and more than a decade as a Chef Instructor at New England Culinary Institute in Essex and Montpelier. Jim ...
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Episode 34 - Ryan Geary

April 20, 2020 • 47 mins
Ryan Geary is the owner the of The Hive, and co-owner of Rabble-Rouser. He works in a variety of mediums and disciplines, including wood carving, furniture making and painting, but his preferred art form and main focus over the past 5 years has been 2D and 3D collage.
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Episode 32 - Matthew Bingino

April 20, 2020 • 44 mins
Matthew Binginot is a designer producer, and lover of all forms of media creativity. He is especially drawn towards photography, music, film and graphic design. When not producing his own media art, he teaches a program called Digital Media Arts at the Central Vermont Career Center. Every day he inspires young artist to be creative and show them new ways to practice their passion.
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Episode 43 - Cara Robechek

April 17, 2020 • 45 mins
Cara Robechek is the Executive Director of the Vermont Energy Education Program, whose mission is to build a deep understanding of energy through education, encouraging choices that result in sustainability in our communities, economy and environment. Cara has been with VEEP since 2014. Cara has worked in nonprofit development and managemen at the Center for While Communities in Waitsfield, served on the board of Planting Hope, as ...
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Episode 1 - Ben Falk

September 9, 2019 • 57 mins
Today will be an interview with Ben Falk of Whole Systems Design. Ben developed Whole Systems Design as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction and the increasing separation between people and elemental things. Life as a designer, builder, ecologist, tree-tender, and backcountry traveler continually informs Ben’s integrative approach to developing landscapes and buildings. His home landscape and the WSD studio s...
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Episode 26 - Christine Hanna

September 9, 2019 • 42 mins
Christine Hanna is the Executive Director of YES Media. She grew up in Virginia, received her bachelors degree in economics from UVA and her MBA from the University of Washington. She spent the early part of her career swept up in the dot.com revolution. She ultimately entered the non-profit arena and founded Go Next Door in Seattle, a web-based network dedicated to supporting local businessess and building community. After that, s...
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Episode 28 - Chuck Collins

September 9, 2019 • 44 mins
Chuck Collins is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of many books including "Born on Third Base", "The Community Resilience Reader" and "Is inequality in America irreversible?". He is the co-editor of the "Inequality.org" website. Chuck has dedicated his life to understanding the basis of economic inequality in the US, and has pioneered countless efforts to...
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Episode 2 - Ben Graham

May 11, 2019 • 66 mins
Ben Graham is an architectural designer by trade with a B.Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is also a third generation woodworker and housebuilder, learning homebuilding first-hand from his grandfather. He is a partner in New Frameworks, the Natural Design Build company located in Burlington, Vermont. Ben has been at the front of developing the natural building movement in Vermont and the Northeast since 2000 as a pr...
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Episode 5 - Amy Seidl

May 11, 2019 • 54 mins
Amy Seidl is a practiced ecologist, activist and author who writes with a lucid and passionate eye about the state of life itself in the age of global warming. By drawing on her 20-year career studying ecology, evolution, and butterflies across the North American continent, she illuminates the historical significance and the everyday impacts of global warming upon the 21st century landscape. A passionate speaker on contemporary en...
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