TIL: Norwich, VT is carbon neutral, and then some
Today I learned that our small town is carbon neutral. We could increase our population by a third and remain so. Here’s the quote from page 9 of the draft Town Plan approved by the Planning Commission: The mature trees on these forest lands perform critical ecosystem services including absorbing and sequestering carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas. Data gathered by the US Energy Information Administration tracks annual carbon dioxide emission by state, which shows that each Vermonter produces approximately Continue reading TIL: Norwich, VT is carbon neutral, and then some