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Postings are grouped by categories. Page down to choose and open individual postings or click here to view a listing of postings in dated sequence.    

TTL Number site views.     (by Year)
11/28/2013,  50,000.     (2013: 50k)
11/28/2014, 78,000.         (2014: 28k)
12/31/2015, 129,000    (2015: 51k)
12/31/2016, 159,149    (2016: 30k)
12/23/2017 177,508     (2017: 19k)
12/31/2018  196,400   (2018: 18.8k) (196.9 since inception)
7/20/2022   248,270 since inception
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 Litter Cleanup commentary and photos

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
 Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.  ~Margaret Mead.

South Burlington Green Up Day collections:
2016: 1.7 tons of bagged trash, ? tires, 480 lbs. wood, 2940 lbs. metal.
2015: 2.3 tons of bagged trash & 137 tires.
2014: 1.96 tons bagged trash & 1.41 tons/tires, &0.6 tons of metal
2013: 2.53 tons bagged trash & 62 tires & 2.28 tons metal

2012: 3.32 tons bagged trash, 2,335 tires, 1 cu yd metal

Green and Clean Editorials  Monthly Column in The Other Paper 2009-2016
WhenI pick up litter I feel _______. (Read responses from over 100 people.) 
Orchard School 5th grade - Green Up Day Posters 2016
Green Up Day 2016 Photos
Green Up Day 2016 Vermont Poster Winners
Green Up Day invite 2016
GreenUp Day – A VT tradition  
GreenUp Day- why we do it every year  
 Preparing for Green Up Day
Green Up Day 2015 Photos
Green Up Day 2014 Photos
Green Up Day 2013 photos 
2013 Poster design and writing contest winners.
 GreenUp Day posters/poem 2013
Green Up Day 2012 Photos
GreenUp Day Posters 2012
 GreenUp Day 2011 Windjammer

Litter strategy: Think, Speak, Act. (Guest posting)

Funny and Trashy Litter quotes (from my tweetable MSWord collection)
  Partnership for Green, Clean; Beautiful S.B. March 2016_ Williston road business district litter
 Part II: SB City Center. Will it be Green and Clean?
A VT How to Behavior Guide You Need to Know
Clean City: Ours to Lose or Keep.
City Beauty Matters
Bigfoot in SB
Clean Branding Editorial
Our City's Image of today, builds the brand of tomorrow. 
Why is this Blue Heron Crying?
Adopt-A-Block South Burlington residents who Adopted a block to keep clean of litter. 
SB Clean City Litter Ordinance Proposal Write to your South Burlington City Council members asking them to adopt this Clean City Ordinance to help make SB the signature image of a clean city .


What's so great about litter picking?
 Lake Champlain Micro Debris
VT Fall Community Harvest (GYG club harvest & Chittenden clinic/Howard Cetner Fall clean up)


 Earth, the only planet we know with life and litter. Cleaning it up is easier than moving. 
~ Bernie Paquette

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  A bit of humor photos and commentary
 Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.  ~Peter Ustinov

 Mystery road markings
The Last piece nearly did me in.  
Snowstorm buries VT
 VT files for spring IPO
Trashy Tweets
Trashy Headlines
Treasure Trash
Carnivorous plant devours Champlain College Student 
Wasn’t the Flu shot that made me sick

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CLEAN CITY: Litter Essays- clean city, litter pick up...

 Why are we tolerant of trash?
Between Green Up Days (One Bag Challenge)
Trash Tramps
Whats so great about litter picking 365?  
Picking up the Pieces
 Field Guide to Litter
 If roads could talk
 Tell me why
 Do –Be
Green Economy-does it include you?
 Sleuthing-Detective work
 Dog days of summer
 Who is responsible for this mess? (Jan 19 National Popcorn Day)
Volunteers in demand
 The Power in numbers
 Let’s not disappoint them
 What goes up must come down 
 With freedom comes responsibility
 Will we throw it all away?
 The story of my blog
 Blog measureable outcomes
 What’s your story?
 March Awakens Us
The Blue Bin Affair 
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 Local government and businesses

Bernie Sanders announcement (Candidate for presidency) at BTV waterfront.  ~200 photos (May 2015)
What do we miss? You're remarkable smile, your VOICE. Local ELECTIONS
Questions posed to City Council Candidates and their answers - 2016
Vermont Legislation protecting waterways
Scorecard 
 Selling the clean Brand (door to door to businesses)
Clean Up (litter) Coupon 
Commercial District-time to clean It
 Questions for City Council candidates
 Trash and cigarette receptacle proposal to city council
Voters to decide on
 Beware the Ides of March
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Litter Picking is an All Season Sport

 Pick up Vermont 365.  

Pick up Vermont:

Clean All-Season Sport; Can you spot, photo, slam dunk?
March Madness (All Season Sport Introduction)
Cup-O-Rama
Mountains
Heart Healthy Sport
Mardi Gras
Ice Fishing
Frozen Fossil
Christmas Fruitcake Graveyard
Iced Coffee
Frozen Lung
Frozen Entree
Super Bowl
Groundhog Day
Super Bowl Ad
Secret memo
Snowman
Blizzard Wizard

#Litterati South Burlington
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Favorite You Tube Litter Videos


Custom trash cans for sale info 
(only fyi, I do not endorse or have any affliation with these companies)

http://www.solar-online.de/Solarlifestyle_englisch.html

http://bigbelly.com/

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 Personal stories and folklore

 If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories. If you want to change the culture, change the stories.  ~Michael Margolis

My Vermont LifeA Walk (essay)
Submerged  (follow the toy horse as it travels starting from a Vermont city eventually reaching the Ocean.)
Sustainable Christmas
 Award from S.B. Land Trust (to litter Guru)
 Letters from home
 At the drop of a spoon (Folktale re:Alzheimer’s )
 Walking Home with Dad (1929-2009)
 Farmer's Creed: Nothing to Waste (VT. folktale)
 In Memoriam-Old Friend
 Intensive Care(3 mos. Preemie) Thanksgiving
 Sharing Summer Vacation (1 act play)
 Six yr old asks-Do Cig butts count as litter? 
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Poems
A November Blessing

Btv Airport seeks to co-exist with South Burlington

Halloween Menu



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Plays 

Sharing Summer Vacation (One Act Play)
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Holidays- essays, commentary, photos.

Park your gift, have fun outside.
City prepares for Santa
April 1'st Vermont Trashed by Roaring Waters

Sustainable Christmas (short story)
Christmas: The desire to give. 
 Christmas Wishes
Arbor Day (April) Who will speak for the (urban) trees?
2014 New Years review & pledge
 Halloween Bike Ride
Burlington VT Halloween Bike Ride Photos (2015) pre ride Candid photos
BTV puts Bicycle Wheels under Halloween-bike ride photos (2015) 
 Valentines, The heart that gives gathers
Valentine's Day - I Love Chocolate
Valentines, for whom does your heart go out to? 
Happy Valentine's Day

Celebrate New Year with Action
 Halloween Menu
Ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day
 Mother’s Day-Terra Firma
 Going for a walk with Dad
 Father’s Day
 Valentine’s Day
 National Pancake Day
 Mardi Gras
 March Madness
VT man lost in Minn.
 Christmas- Mark Your Territory (dogs)
 Intensive Care (3 mos. Preemie) Thanksgiving
Groundhog Day       
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Backyard Birding  Welcome to Backyard Birding, a series (15 bird species) of photos taken (SB VT) from Dec 25, 2015 through Feb., 2015 through our kitchen double pane window. 
I can fly all day without leaving our kitchen window, thanks to visiting birds. ~Bernie 
 Blue Jay. Backyard birding series, Issue #1.
Black-capped Chicadees. Backyard birding series Issue #2.

Nuthatch. Backyard birding series, Issue #3.
Titmouse. Backyard birding series, Issue #4.
American Tree Sparrow. Backyard birding series, Issue #5.
White-throated Sparrow. Backyard birding series, Issue #6.
American Goldfinch.  Backyard birding series, Issue #7.
Dark-eyed Junco.  Backyard birding series, Issue #8.
Snow-birds. Backyard birding series, Issue #9.
Cardinal. Backyard birding series, Issue #10.
Downy & Hairy Woodpecker. Backyard Birding Issue Issue #11.
Carolina Wren. Backyard Birding Issue Issue #12.
House Finch.  Backyard Birding Issue Issue #13.
Mourning Dove.  Backyard Birding Issue Issue #14.
Red-bellied Woodpecker. Backyard Birding Issue Issue #15.
Pileated Woodpecker. Backyard Birding Issue #16. 
White-crowned Sparrow.  Backyard Birding Issue #17.
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo  Photo near bottom of posting. May 2012 in my backyard. Backyard Birding Issue #17.
Hummingbirds Dressed in Pink
Beautiful Nature - Litter Free
South Burlington Backyard Birds - July
Mystery Baby Bird
Birds on a stick

Chicadee and Nuthatch nesting. 

White-crowned Sparrow

Listing of backyard bird postings. (USE AS A TAB)

Birds & Art synonymous in North Carolina

“…the forest's vast palace with its snow-broidered tree-pillars and its chandeliers and its little musicians, the very first–most spring birds come back from the winter bird-place, flitting from here to there above me and singing fiercely in their spots of sun.” Tender Morsels, a novel by Margo Lanagan (p126,127)

What I learned from birds
Woodside park Birding

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Art - nature and manmade

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Community

BTV Waterfront Diving Center: In Search of Champ (The Lake Champlain Sea Monster)



Burlington Farmer's Market photos 
A day at a Vermont Farmer's Market
Vermont Food Festival Sept 2014
BTV Photos - Attractive Fallen trapped by fencing. (Fall Foliage)
BTV BIke Path - Golden leaves, sand, sunset. (BTV foliage, scenery)

Vermont Maple Open House

MY Vermont Life

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Nature Parks/Natural Areas in South Burlington, Vermont (Photos) (And other nearby cites/towns)
It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. 
Wheeler Nature Park (Feb.) 
Maple Sugaring at Wheeler Nature Park (March)
Underwood Natural Area (Oct - Foliage, Scenic, Northern Harrier)
Underwood Natural Area (Turkeys, foliage, scenic, flowers, milkweed seed pods)
Underwood Park  (Feb.)
SB Community Gardens-Canna South Pacific Flower (Sept)
SB Community Gardens-Sunflowers (Sept)


Awasiwi Trail -along Potash Brook in Feb.
Centennial Brook (snowshoe walk-behind Kirby Rd)
Dumont Park (October Tour) 
Muddy Brook Natural Area Located on Poor Farm Road, behind the BTV Airport. (March)

Snowshoeing Centennial Brook 2013, along Kirby Road
SB Veterans Memorial Park: November RED foliage
South Burlington VT Community Labyrinth (fall foliage

 Note to self: POSTING WITH NATURE AREAS LINKS (Set on a Tab)

 Seek nature to find yourself.  ~ Bernie Paquette
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SBFiN (South Burlington Families in Nature Program - Walks)

SBFiN Program details (Established Mar 2016 by Bernie Paquette)
Wheeler Natural Area, 1st SBFiN walk (3/12)
Underwood Park, Easter Sunday (SBFiN #2 and #3)Mar/Apr
Awasiwi Trail SbFiN #4 (April 9)
Awasiwi Walk SBFiN #5 (April 17)
Red Rocks SBFiN #6, and #7 (April 30 and May 14)


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 UVM Friday Field Walks

 UVM Student (Field Naturalist and Ecological Planning Program) - bios

Uvm's Carse property Friday Field Walk photos

LaPlatte River Marsh Area Friday Field Walk Photos

Unraveling the myths and mysteries of bees. 

Woodside with Bryan Pfeiffer and Sean Beckett

Spring Ephemerals - Niquette Bay State Park  4/29

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Poems
Spring's Tears - VT spring poem

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      South Burlington, VT Backyard Flower Photos
Stop, Look, and Listen.
The more you appreciate in life, the happier you will be.  ~Bernie Paquette
-South Burlington,Vermont Backyard Flowers Series
We protect what we fall in love with. Beauty opens our hearts and makes us realize we are part of nature and we're not separate from it.  Sentiment from Louie Schwartzberg 

Yellow-banded Bumblebee
Somewhat of a rare moth - Grapevine Epimenis as seen in our backyard - May 2016 July(2015) spring flowers
August (2015)
Monarch Butterflys Dressed in Pink South Burlington,  June 
May (2015) spring flowers
Spring is late but... (poem)
May 2012
July  2012  
August 2012
September 2012 
Green Up Day II (Nature's Green up effort)

Pollinators:Edible Landscape for people and pollinators. Resource listing for pollinators, Gardening & Soil Remediation, Mason bees, and Natural World Dictionary and Encyclopedia-online.


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Vermont Fall Foliage Photos 

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein 

Vermont Leaf Peeping & Leaf Litter. Be-leave it or not. (Unusual leaf within a leaf)
Foliage Season Train. 

* See Natural Parks section and Community Postings section for more foliage and scenic photos postings.

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Snow Season photos and commentary.
Winter without snow is like ice without cream.  ~Bernie Paquette

 December snowstorm 2014
Snowstorm buries VT (March 2011)
Thanksgiving backyard 2014

The First of the Season
March Awakens us
Snowstorm buries VT
 VT files for spring IPO (First day of spring)

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Growing Young Gardeners - Photo Series:

Photos of their (young people in grades 4-9 growing food to benefit the food shelf) weekly learning and growing experiences at Wheeler community gardens on Dorset St in South Burlington, VT.


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    Machia Wilderness Camp 2015 - Photos

         The goal of the Machia Wilderness Camp is to introduce youth to the outdoor experience; To learn the life skills needed to survive in nature and learn to be productive keepers of  the earth. Campers are challenged to carry their learned skills into everyday life, and teach others what they have learned. Learn-Apprenctice-Teach.
         The Machia Wilderness Camp is open to youths age 11-18. All programs involve interactive classroom activities combined with hands on outdoor learning. At the conclusion of the camp, participants can, upon passing the test, receive required certifications needed to obtain VT hunting licenses. Included are the VT. state hunter safety certification, archery certification, and a Lets go fishing certificate.   

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    Community
                                        Community, a social concept worth visiting. 
                                                                                         ~Bernie Paquette

    South Burlington, VT  neighborhood photo series.


    What is a community neighborhood? Essay by Bernie Paquette

    Adopt A Block  (USE AS A TAB) *citizens of South Burlington that have pledged to Adopt-a-block, and who pick up litter year round in each their chosen street, park, or other public area within our South Burlington community.



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    General Topic Essays and Commentaries 

    by Bernie Paquette
    http://greenandcleanvt.blogspot.com/
    Insulation: Are you trading your health for warmth?

    100,000+ Views of this blog. (June 2015) Caring, Contribution, and Community-popular!

      

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