Massachusetts

A Bang for Your Buck in the Berkshires | How New England Can Change the World

How New England Can Save the World, Part IIII in a series Part I: 2011 Biathalon World Cup: Aroostook County Part II: Vermont Neighbors Part III: Hardwick and the New Frontier of Food Want to encourage the local economy? Try printing your own regional money. In Great Barrington, Massachusetts, I gave the nice man in […]

Yankee

Hardwick, Vermont, and the New Frontier of Food | How New England Can Save the World

How New England Can Save the World, Part III in a series Part I: The Maine Way: Aroostook County Part II: Vermont Neighbors Part IIII: A Bang for Your Buck in the Berkshires When you think of Vermont–white church on the tidy green–you’re not actually thinking of Hardwick, which in its days as the “Building […]

Yankee

Vermont Neighbors and Online Networks | How New England Can Save the World

How New England Can Save the World: Part II in a series Part I: 2011 Biathalon World Cup: Aroostook County Part III: Hardwick and the New Frontier of Food Part IIII: A Bang for Your Buck in the Berkshires When Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, moved from Washington, D.C., to the south end of […]

Maine

The 2011 Biathlon World Cup in Aroostook County | How New England Can Save the World

The 2011 Biathlon World Cup comes to Aroostook County Maine starting Feb. 6. This is a huge sport in Europe and will be televised into millions, yes millions of European homes. Bill McKibben in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Yankee Magazine covered this story (below) on Aroostook county, Maine becoming the Biathlon World Cup capital […]

Vermont

Farmers Diner | (Tod) Murphy’s Law: Buy Local, Eat Local, and Prosper

How local is the Farmers Diner? The first thing you see when you walk in the door of this Quechee,Vermont, restaurant is a jukebox, glinting like any diner jukebox. Some Willie Nelson, some John Cougar Mellencamp. But half the albums are by Vermonters. Phish, sure. But it’s Grace Potter and the Nocturnals who get the […]

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