I publish images and commentary - stories and photos about caring, community, and contribution, inspiring people to maintain a litter-free environment. Why? Because stories make us care.
Columns written by Bernie and originally published in "The Other Paper", local newspaper of South Burlington, VT. Published since 2009; click on any of the titles below to read the particular column.
May 2016 Farewell Click then go to Page 8 of The Other Paper (my last column after 7.5 years.)
Mar 2016 Partnership for Green, Clean; Beautiful S.B.
Mar 2016 Part II: SB City Center. Will it be Green and Clean?
Feb 2016 None
Jan 2015 Submerged (not published)
Feb 2015 I Love Chocolate (not published)
Mar 2015 None
Apr 11, 2015 Beautiful Nature Litter Free (Birds). Originally published in Watching Backyard Birds magazine, April 2015
Apr 11, 2015 Beautiful Nature Litter Free (Birds). Originally published in Watching Backyard Birds magazine, April 2015
Apr 30, 2015 Clean City Ordinance Proposal Presented to Council
June 25, 2015 What is a Community Neighborhood?
July 23, 2015 Growing Young Gardeners
Aug 27, 2015 Machia Wilderness Camp
Sept 24, 2015 Our City's Image Today Builds the Brand of Tomorrow
Nov 26, 2015 A November Blessing (Poem)
Dec 3, 2015 City Beauty Matters
Dec 19, 2015 City Prepares for Santa (Not published)
Dec 23, 2015 Park Your Gift - Have Fun Outside
Dec 19, 2015 City Prepares for Santa (Not published)
Dec 23, 2015 Park Your Gift - Have Fun Outside
Jan 2014 January Pledge: Keep it Clean, Keep it Green (Not published)
Feb 27, 2014 What I've learned from Birds
Apr 10, 2014 Green Up Day Competition Let the Games beginpage3
May 22, 2014 Insulation: Are you Trading Health for Energy Savings?
June 2014 One Bag Challenge (Not published)
July 2014 None
Sept 2014 None
Oct 16, 2014 Foliage Season Train
Nov 26, 2014 A Tribute to Social Janitors
Dec 23, 2014 Sustainable Christmas (Short Story)
Apr 11, 2013 Green Up Day: Tradition, Treasure Hunt, & Pink Bras. (Pending)
May 16, 2013, Clean & Green. (Green Up Day results)
June 2013 None
July 18, 2013, Picking up the pieces
Aug 2013 Odd Road Markings Sighted
Sept 26, 2013 Who Will Speak For The Trees?
Oct 31, 2013 Ghosts, Goblins and Green Goodies
Nov 4, 2013, What's so Great about Litter Picking? (not published)
Dec 13, 2013 Christmas - I look for a Reason to Believe. (not published)
Nov 4, 2013, What's so Great about Litter Picking? (not published)
Dec 13, 2013 Christmas - I look for a Reason to Believe. (not published)
Dec 19, 2013, The First of the Season
Jan 5, 2012 Let's Celebrate 2012 with Actions
Feb 2, 2012 In Memoriam
Feb 7, 2012 Green Economy - Does it include you? (not published)
Feb 2, 2012 In Memoriam
Feb 7, 2012 Green Economy - Does it include you? (not published)
Feb 16, 2012 Happy Valentine's Day (To Mother Earth)
Mar 8, 2012 Everyone Can Play this All-Season Sport
Apr 12, 2012 Selling the Clean Brand
Apr 2, 2012 Solar Trash Receptacles -proposal to SB Council (not published)
Apr 2, 2012 Solar Trash Receptacles -proposal to SB Council (not published)
May 17, 2012, What is Success?
June 14, 2012 Going for a walk with Dad (*Tribute to my dad)
July 19, 2012 Looking for the Four-Leaf Clover
Oct 11, 2012 What Goes Up... Must Come Down
Nov 1, 2012 Will S.B. Businesses Cultivate Clean Branding?
Nov 9, 2012 Cigarette butts - do they count as litter? (not published)
Nov 9, 2012 Cigarette butts - do they count as litter? (not published)
Dec 13, 2012 Letters From Home (Christmas Wishes)
Jan 13, 2011 Local man spots trash (Michelin and Stay puft marshmallow man)
Feb 10, 2011 Vermont man lost in Minnesota
Mar 10, 2011 Vermont Files for Spring IPO
April 2011 Why are we tolerant of littered trash? (not published)
April 2011 Why are we tolerant of littered trash? (not published)
April 21, 2011 Green and Clean: Green Up Day
May 12, 2011 Carry It with You (If roads could talk)
June 16, 2011 Bird Fever; you should catch it
July 14, 2011 Tell me Why
Aug 11, 2011, Why did the turtle cross the road?
Sept 8, 2011 Sharing Summer Vacation (A play in one act)
Dec 8, 2011 Chipmunks Pick Up Their Trash
Jan 14, 2010 Will we Throw it all Away
Feb 11, 2010 Creative ways to celebrate Valentine's Day
Mar 11, 2010, S.B. Businesses, beware the Ides of March
Apr 8, 2010 Tradition
May 13, 2010, Terra Firma
June 10, 2010 Walking Home (*tribute to my dad)
June 2010 Beware the Litter Ides of March (not published)
June 2010 Beware the Litter Ides of March (not published)
July 15, 2010 Sleuthing
Aug 12, 2010, The Dog Days of Summer
Sep 9, 2010 Who Is Responsible For This Mess?
Oct 21, 2010, The Power in Numbers
Nov 18, 2010 Intensive Care
Dec 9, 2010 Mark your territory
Feb __, 2009 Bait in Styrofoam Containers
Jan __, 2009 New Year's Resolutions
Mar 12, 2009 Volunteers are in demand
April _, 2009 Litter With a Story To Tell (Pink Bra)(PENDING)
May __, 2009 Litter Prevention
June __, 2009 Misconceptions about Cigarette Butts
July __, 2009 With Freedom comes Responsibility
Aug__, 2009 Finding Hot Spots
Sept __,2009 Green and Clean Back to School: A field guide to Litter
Oct __, 2009 The Importance of Green and Clean Main Street
Nov __, 2009 Giving Thanks
Dec__, 2009 Christmas Wishes
Bernie publishes commentary and photos reflecting Vermont values of Green and Clean and Community. View images of South Burlington beauty at http://bit.ly/1SE0zc4 and follow on Facebook @ South Burlington VT - Photos.
Don’t just change what people think, change what people feel, then change what they do. ~Bernadette Jiwa
Author profile (2009)
My wife and I are proud parents of four children, an Army Sgt. Recruiter and recipient of the Army's recruiter ring, a daughter married and living in Sweden, a son managing a store in Kansas, and our youngest son graduating from UVM this spring. I attended Champlain College 2001-2006, earning a Bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Some of my core values are personal expression through writing finding meanings and possibilities, harmonious relationships, and hard work. My temperament is towards a humanist culture. My motto is "Laugh, dream, try and do good". I enjoy personalized writing, to quote Joan Didion “I write to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means". My hobbies include quiet water paddling in a kayak or canoe, reading, bird watching, and camping.
South Burlington's The Other Paper is exemplary of our shifting expectations from newspaper media providing focused, detailed, local investigative reporting, and S.B. community social interests, all with an optimistic and influential flair. The Other Paper, by publishing a growing number of local contributors is expanding a community town hall type of discourse and refreshing what might otherwise be stagnant waters by exposing us to diverse S.B. citizen's visions, and dreams.
Sharing stories and ideas while offering encouragement to individuals to influence and take action in our city government and in our city culture is personally rewarding. The opportunity I relish when writing green and clean articles is rallying fellow residents towards a year-round litter-free environment.
How would you like people to react after reading your essays? Be intolerant of litter every day, every place. Rally for clean up wherever and whenever you see litter.
Bernie urges us all to maintain a litter-free environment through caring, contribution, and community in order to protect our water, wildlife, and human health.
Bernie urges us all to maintain a litter-free environment through caring, contribution, and community in order to protect our water, wildlife, and human health.
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