Get to know neighbors. Would like to see central neighborhood location for equipment sharing e.g., power tools, farm equip, mowers) instead of each household having their own. All community should support farmers - that's where our food comes from.

Pretty consistant

not sure - I just moved here

The local community could make a serious effort to look for ways to provide electrical power locally beginning with town offices. This could include small-scale combined heat and power generation; solar applications; small-scale hydroelectric; grass or wood pellets.

we are beginning the conversation and research re energy and food sustainability

well i think i was talking about my town with my answers i feel that we need to get the old Ethan Allen building up and running so we have local jobs i do not want to see big buildings being put in (no shopping malls) i'd like to keep it small and a safe place for my family and others

The bottom line is our State is a whole entity with many resisting eventual change. The State itself must be zoned and then grown else little by little things will change with no plan and allot of fighting. (Windpower and boxstores for example) I also propose putting toll roads on all the bridges to NH so we can keep/get some of that money that is going over there every day by our citizens.

Friends and fellow citizens in Montpelier are actively protecting affordable housing, supporting a vibrant farmer's market, choosing the food coop over the larger commercial grocery stores, working on energy independence from many angles - local energy committee, high school students trying to get their building off the grid - all reinstating local, community first in our lives.