Three Red Sea data cables cut as Houthi's launch more attacks. Three cables under the Red Sea that provide global internet and telecommunications have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen's Houthi rebels, official said. The Associated Press reported this. Meanwhile, a Houthi missile attack set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden but caused no injuries. While global shipping has already been disrupted through the Red Sea, a crucial route for cargo and energy shipments from Asia and the Middle East to Europe, the sabotage of telecommunications lines could further escalate the months-long crisis. The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe One, the Europe-India Gateway, CCOM and TGN Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global, communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. It described the Red Sea route as crucial for data moving from Asia to Europe and said it had begun re-routing traffic. HGC Global Communications described the CCOM-TGN Gulf line as being two separate cables when it is actually one at the area of the cut. According to Tim Strong, a sub-sea cable expert with telegeography, a Washington-based telecommunications market research company, responding to questions from the Associated Press, CCOM said that initial testing indicates the affected segment lies within Yemeni maritime jurisdictions in the Southern Red Sea. It said it was re-routing the traffic that it was able to change, though some surfaces were down. Tata Communications, part of the Indian conglomerate and behind the CCOM-TGN Gulf line, told that it initiated immediate and appropriate remedial actions after the line was cut. Other firms behind those lines, which provide data to Africa, Asia and the Middle East, didn't respond to queries. Kaliningrad will become one of the main centres of the Russian NATO war. The states of the North Atlantic Alliance will react if Russia dares to challenge the bloc aiming at Kaliningrad in the first place, thinks the Lithuanian ambassador to Sweden Linas Linkevichas. According to him, after Sweden's NATO accession, the Baltic Sea has become an internal NATO sea. If Russia dares to challenge NATO, Kaliningrad would be neutralised first. Russia's previous false accusations that it is surrounded by NATO are now becoming a reality. Linkevichas emphasised, at the same time the diplomat did not specify what exactly he meant by the word neutralised. Sweden actively pursued membership to ensure a collective defence strategy following in the footsteps of Finland, which joined NATO in April last year. Nevertheless, analysts have warned that Sweden, once a non-aligned Nordic country, may now face increased risks of being drawn into conflicts. Sweden's NATO membership means the abandonment of its historical policy of non-alignment and neutrality. Analysts argue that NATO's continued enlargement will reshape European security dynamics and potentially strain Russia's geopolitical position. Nicholas Locker and Heli Hotela from the Center for the New American Security expressed concerns that Moscow may perceive NATO's expansion as a threat, leading to short and long-term challenges. Russian Defence Ministry publications warn of the security implications of NATO troops and equipment on Finnish and Swedish territory. Locker and Hotela highlighted that Russia's border with NATO will extend from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea, which will permanently alter the European security architecture and erode Russia's geopolitical position. Russia buys Starlink equipment for military use through Arab countries. Russia is purchasing Starlink satellite internet terminals manufactured by Elon Musk's SpaceX company in Arab countries. Press Service of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence said this. Ukraine's Defence Intelligence reports that the aggressor state of Russia is buying communication equipment, including Starlink satellite internet terminals, in Arab countries for use in warfare, the statement said. The intelligence indicated that Russian occupiers discussed the possibility of purchasing Starlink satellite communication terminals in a recently intercepted radio message. During this conversation, a Russian occupier mentions that Arabs are supplying the full set of equipment, including wires and Wi-Fi routers, and that the cost of purchasing one Starlink terminal amounts to 200,000 rubles or approximately US$2,200. Earlier, Ukraine's Defence Intelligence confirmed that Russian occupying forces were using Starlink satellite communications systems and reported that Russia continues to engage in so-called parallel trading purchasing Starlink through third parties. Andrew Yusov, representative of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence, said that Russians began to use Starlink on the front lines in a more systematic and organised manner. The invaders are betting on these devices and means. Of course, work is ongoing to eliminate this threat. We will not disclose the nature of this threat right now. The Russians claimed they did not use Starlink in combat operations as the system is not officially certified in Russia.


I want to ask a question because I think a lot of people will relate to this and we've both been through it.  How do you get, how did you get out of it? Because I've been in it too, but people never think that. But it happens to everybody, right? How do you get out of it? I was just talking to someone about this the other day. So I was explaining that I was in a slump. And it was a slump to where I just didn't want to do anything. I was just like, oh my God, I just want to just, I don't know, I don't want to pick up that dial. So what I did was I just went and worked out, went to the gym, put one foot in front of the other, and just did that because I knew I could do that. I knew that would take my mind off of it. Then it made it easier for me to go back and get on the phones again and do what I needed to do. So I think that it's not staying stagnant. Just you got to do something. So if you don't want to do that, maybe you don't need to do it right now. But do something. And push yourself. Because when I was pushing myself, I got my juices going again, and it made it a lot easier to get back. Yeah, we all have a little bit of a competitive desire that we need to ignite every now and then. My wife and I talk about this a lot. We don't, other than going to church and spending a little bit of time with family, we don't love weekends and Sundays. Really? Because I get so freaking bored. I get so bored. And then I feel like I'm being lazy. You know what I mean? It's tough for me to just, I can sit for a couple hours and watch some TV or a show or billions or something. But to sit for like a whole day is like really tough. So we try to find stuff to do to keep us busy.  So this is the craziest thing. A lot of the successful guys that I know watch billions. I've watched a couple episodes, but I think I need to watch a lot more now. Because you guys are all on that show. Dude, it's good. It's good. Everybody wants to be the ethical version of Bobby Axelrod. Okay. It gets my brain moving about business and thinking. I mean, it's kind of crazy. I like a lot of cartel shows too, like Narcos. I love these kind of shows because I'm just like, okay. How could I do what they're doing ethically, not literally selling drugs, not literally doing whatever the terminology is for the stock market. But I just like seeing people operate in a business setting. And I'm watching and learning. Like, how did he handle that? Ooh, what I have thought about asking that question there. Like that kind of stuff. Like I love watching speakers on stage. Or even a church. Like literally, we had a guest pastor come in a week and a half ago at church two Sundays ago. And he was really good at telling stories. And I'm like, I don't even know if he prepped any content, but he kept me engaged better than any pastor has in a long time. And I didn't even know who he was. And I also, like a lot of people, I'm sitting there like, yeah, this is going to be boring. I'm not like, that's not the main pastor. Oh, here we go. You know what I mean? Unfortunately, but he kept my attention. Check this out. So we went to church this last Sunday. Okay. And guess what the message was? What's that? It was your message and it was don't quit. And this was one of the things that you said, and this is also something that I would say to new agents out there. Don't quit because if you keep going, you're going to be able to provide an amazing life in this business right here for your family and for your loved ones. But that's what the message is about. Man, if I try to give you a Bible verse on it right now, I'm going to mess it up. But it was don't quit. How important is that message? Because we do the virtual conference. If you don't quit, you can't fail. Yeah. I remember listening to it from you as well. Before I even, yeah. So what was it like about a couple years now? That's been one of your slogans? That's right. That's right. 2020 and 2021. Because it's true, man. Like there's a lot of people that aren't as cool and talented as Ernest Mitchell. Oh, man. Stop it. Stop it. I'm going to fill his head real big. You're not filling my head. But they quit too soon. Yeah. Well, you know, if you don't quit, you're going to get smarter. You're going to, and you know, another thing is if you make a messed up appointment, guess what you do?   That's right. On the next appointment. That's right. But if you don't quit, you stay in it, you're going to constantly start separating and catching some of these other guys that are killing it. Yes. And that's, yeah, man. Boom. Yeah. Mike. Rich, how can they double their new business revenue in the next year? They're going to have to attend on June 29th, our webinar together. That's right. Because we're going to teach them 13 principles and how to take their insurance agency to a whole nother level. Boom. And double in the next 12 months. He's done it. You can do it to join us. Okay. It's only 37 bucks right now. Join us. June 29th, five o'clock. Hit the link. Register. We'll see you there. How do they, how do they, how do they follow you? Like if they're like, dude, I like this earnest dude. Cool guy. And he is, um, they can, they can look you up on Facebook. Yeah. So Facebook, uh, I do have an Instagram. Um, you know, I'm not, I don't know. Super active on Instagram. I'm not, I'm not. Can they email you? Yeah. Yeah. What's your email? Yeah. So you can email me at earnest at deerretirement.com. Okay. Or earnest at Mitchell brokerage.com. Okay. Deer retirement, like, like, uh, D-E-A-R. Yeah. D-E-A-R. And earnest is E-R-N-E-S-T. That's right. No A. I don't know. Does anybody ever spell it E-A-R-N-S-T? Yes. Yeah. So I still, I, I'll still get it because I have clients that were constantly spelling E-R. So I had to add that. Yeah. So. E-R-N-E-S-T. But it is E-R-N-E-S-T. Yeah. Retirement.com. Boom. Okay. Last, last, uh, what, what, is there anything else you want to leave us with before we end the interview today? How good has this guy been, by the way? This has been good, man. You're better than you know on video. I don't feel, I don't, I feel like I'm just trying to be myself.  So, but you know, it's, it's. He's obviously very humble too. You're high energy, man. But, but you know, you're the type of person that brings out the best in people. Thank you. That's really cool. Appreciate that. How would I end this? You know, if, if you want to be good in this business, you have to surround yourself with other people that are good. You really do. It's. So go surround yourself with this cat. Yeah. Seriously. You really do.  That's awesome. Um, and, um, you know, we're just excited about what's, what's happening in the future. So. There's a lot of, a lot of bright things going on. Our, our, our, um, families are going to be, you know, working together for many years and it's going to be a ton of fun. Um, I've loved getting to sit. We literally sat that first night at the BW and, and. Just chopped it up. Yeah. We just chopped it up and just talked and talked and drank camis. And I loved it. That isn't a wine. That is an expensive wine that I'm only going to drink if you pay for it. Okay. I need to get you a bottle tonight then. Okay. It was awesome. It was awesome. Reach out to this dude. Okay. Follow him. Tell him how amazing you did today. Okay.  Hey, if you enjoyed this, I got another one. You're going to love it. It's right there. Click on it. See you in there. Well, I quote probably close to $2 million in trucking insurance. Yeah. Close to 2 million trucking a month. You're quoting. That's extremely high for anybody who knows trucking. Don't start in trucking. Get your feet wet with the personal lines and then when you're ready for trucking.


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Well, hello friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to be talking about the new Aaron Condren academic planner And I'm so excited to share this with you guys. I remember the academic planner back in the day when it was like bound Like it wasn't in a coil. Do you guys remember that? Anyway, I do. However first things first Thank you so much to the Aaron Condren team for sending me this I really appreciate it and I want to share this with you and do a little flip through So let's talk about the Aaron Condren planner. First of all, these retail for $37 and that's without any upgrades I believe that the coils are $10 additional for the different color coils. I am a fan. I got the platinum coil So that one is actually included in there your calendar options It's a 12 month planner, but you can choose August through July September through August and then also January through December just depending on how your school year works or Some people use the academic planner just like for their daily life as well You can also personalize your cover and do all of those things and I believe that the only Option for the insides is colorful when I ordered mine. I Didn't have an option for colorful or neutral. So that could be part of that So anyway, let's flip her open and take a little peek There's also a seven by nine planner. Here's my planner. I am currently using So it's the same. It's the same and the coil size is exactly the same as this one This one this one seen better days because it's really full. But anyway, so this is the academic planner Oh, yeah, I got August through July. I could not remember which one I ordered. Oopsie There's also a spot for your name school and then we've got 2009 end of 2019 here and then 2020 and this has a little projects tab So here's your projects. Oh, this is really pretty. Oh, I kind of like this I know a lot of people use this for work as well, especially if they have projects and things like that I don't work in an environment where I have projects. I work on for a long time Once they get to my desk, then I'm usually done with them within a day So I don't have like long progressive projects But if you're like a project manager or someone that has ongoing projects throughout the year This would actually be a really cool planner for you to have at work But anyway, this has a projects and exams or you could just do projects A description it says class and then details. This could be just like the project name and then details There's deadline important date and then like a little completed checkbox, which is also very satisfying So there's quite a few on here. So there's three and three And then we've got some more pages and more pages. These are cool Nice, it'd be kind of cool just to have like this is just me thinking It would be kind of cool to have just a planner or like a notebook that has just these pages in it like just projects and exams or just something like that that would actually be really cool because Y'all know if you're in school, you've got way more projects and exams in a year than this Typically, so that would actually be really cool. Anyway, so now we're into the planner So we've got our August tab here and then we have a notes page It's lined with a little like kind of rainbow color watercolor thing. I don't know cool Alright, and then we've got August, which let me see where my planner is for 2020 Give me a second. I want to I want to see what it looks like compared to this All right, so this is the planner I'm actually gonna be using starting this upcoming July, which it might be July by the time you see this I'm not really sure So but I want to go to the monthly page and see How different it looks or does it? I don't know so here's kind of the differences So yeah, this one is like very colorful and has like, you know the colorful tabs and the you know the rounded corners and things like that and then this one is just like straight corners and Still has like over here. I put this but it still has the color blocked area as well. So cool. All right, I Just wanted to see the difference and see if there was you know, huge differences or not So yeah, but love that they have the upcoming month right there. It's always super helpful All right, and then we have July 2019 the very end and then we have August So we've got Monday Tuesday Wednesday to do lists and then things are kind of broken out a little bit Thursday Friday and then Saturday Sunday are two little things. So again, this would be great for work If you work like a normal like Monday through Friday type of a job and then yeah so these are the weekly pages and Just for comparison because I have this here and if you all are debating Between and you know a life planner or whatever. I have the hourly But this is you know, this is the difference basically, you know, you just got more room I think this one just has like more room to write in it just because your Saturday and Sunday are so small But again, if you don't you know want to put academic stuff or work stuff on Saturdays and Sundays I don't know but like I used to actually work like a retail job where I had Sundays and Tuesdays off. So I would probably if I was still in that job, which I'm clearly not I would maybe make this like my Sunday and Tuesday and then like Rename the days or whatever to just fit my needs. But yeah Cool. Oh, and then at the very end you get some notes pages, which is actually really great So you can you know clearly write notes or anything else that you need to you know jot down or remember So then we've got September and I like that it has like the little watercolor things over there I think that's really cute Maybe they did that for like the colorful version in here because it is quite subtle, you know And then you know just like their little rainbow thing again and then to October So all the months are the same and I don't want to be super redundant and go through every single month because that would Be a boring video Emily So let's go to the very back in July I liked how we see if they have other things in the back because sometimes they do and sometimes they don't so let's go through July See what's going on back here. Okay, so we have the notes pages like normal And then okay, and then it says arriving at one goal is the start of another awesome and then this has a bunch of The Aaron Condren stickers, which are great. I I always forget that they're in the back There's ones that say exam midterm test quiz read paper do study group study No class vacation, and then we got a couple blank ones too, which is really nice So that is that and then there is my back cover. So yeah, that is it for the video I hope you guys enjoyed it. This is the academic planner for 2019 2020 from Aaron Condren There is a link down below for you guys if anyone is interested in checking it out if you've never purchased anything from Aaron Condren, there's a special link for you that will give you $10 off of your first purchase What will happen is once you sign up Aaron's condors gonna send you a couple of different emails But one of them will be a unique $10 coupon code for you once you place your first order Once your first order is placed and ships full disclosure I do get a $10 off coupon as well So thank you so much and that's how I can bring like giveaways and things like that to my channel Also, there is a another link for you guys if you've already signed up through Aaron Condon You've bought something there before That one is a just affiliate link. Your prices are not higher or anything like that They're exactly the same but I do receive a small commission for sending you their way So I really appreciate it when you guys use that link really helps out my channel And it also helps out Doyle's little kibble and bacon budget. So anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed the video Let me know down in the comments which planner that you use during the year Is it the academic planner and is it for academics or do you use it for work or special projects?   Let me know in the comments down below. I'd be really curious to see so anyway That's it for me. Thank you guys so much for watching the video Make sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe and I'll talk to you guys in the next one. Bye guys Well folks it's time to kick it old school


I thought you might be interested in cooperating on it, but I might have to pass for that. Uh-huh. Why did you leave your voicemail? I can tell you about it briefly afterwards. Okay. There may be a possibility to provide it in some form. A good fit for your show. For my show. Or also a Josephus facilitator. Interesting project. When did you leave it? Because I checked my mail yesterday. I mean, the voicemail on my phone. Isn't there something? Huh. Doesn't matter.  Okay. Are you our city representative? Yeah. All right. I guess there's probably other people that go to the city. Okay. I guess there's other publics that go to the city. Okay. I think everyone should feel free to sit around the table, too. This is not a one-way... I'll come to the station. I'd like to be. I'll be Senator Carson. Oh, who am I? Who am I? Who am I? I'll be Senator Carson. All right. Oh, who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?  I hope so. Absolutely. Like, right back. All right. Perfect. Pretty good. You're good. You're so there, by far. So that's it. So I'd like to... And then the other thing that I think will probably try and capture... We try to capture people as if it's very clear what an idea is. Individual action or city action or a state policy or something, trying to kind of capture what kind of action is going to be prioritized. Looking at it, hopefully it makes up some of the different kinds of things. So, I'm going to do some things, but focusing on it, is that as a community, I think I'm going to go on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Did you get my thoughts on that? Yes. Some, you didn't get it as well. You're still going? Do you think you should correct or read it and put it on yourself? Yeah, we did that. We did that. Right. All right, well, it's looking like I would be surprised if a couple more people trickle in, but I know that we've only got so much time, so let's get started. So my name is Lauren Perot, and I'm going to help facilitate us this evening. I am one of the facilitators and counselors, but I'm not here with any agenda. I'm just helping run the meeting, collect and listen to ideas. Carl Admeyer has kindly offered to describe for us, so he's going to be taking notes. So we're going to capture all the ideas that come out. We are looking, as Paul said, to leave this room in a little over an hour with a handful of priorities. We have a massive topic, so if there's more than the one to three things that we absolutely need to share with a big group, that's OK, but we're looking to narrow down to like two to three big things. It would be great if those could be, for example, something that we could act on quickly as a community, something that we could see really taking action on and make something longer term. Just, ideally, it's not like two things that are going to take 10 years to act on, for example, like some things that we can really kind of dig right into. But we'll see where the conversation goes. We do have some climate policy experts in the room who work in a range of algorithms from V-PIRD, who does lots of climate policy, Jared Duvall, and the Action Network, John Miller, the Natural Resources Council, Kate Stevenson, who does all kinds of green building. I don't know your official title, but it's like a major effort in all kinds of climate and has been part of the Molecular Energy Advisory Committee for countless years. Chris Lumbrough from the city is our sustainability. And I recognize lots of you who also have your own expertise. So we have amazing resources in this room so I think can help keep us focused. The rundown for what we're going to do, we're going to spend the first 15 minutes or so talking about what's going on right now, some land of the land, so people can share things that are in the works on climate action, things that we know about so we can get the landscape of what's already happening so that that can ground us. Then we're going to be looking at your ideas for what could or should be done for either shorter term recovery or longer term resilience. And Carl's going to kind of capture them under one of those buckets so that we can again make sure we're kind of keeping an eye on both of those so we're being responsive to immediate needs but also looking at resilience. And then we're going to spend the last 15 minutes as a group coming out with one of those handful of ideas that we want to share with a bigger group as priorities that we're excited or the community to work on together. And then we'll go back to the house floor. So let's start out. So if people could just share and just try to I guess talk loudly because we don't have a microphone or anything. And just share what do you know is happening now that relates to this idea so again our topic is described as action in the face of climate change. And that was described as actions, residents, businesses, property owners can take to reduce carbon impacts and address climate change. Changes in lifestyle, purchasing power or energy used to help address climate change. What can we do as a community, as a city, as a state? So that was what we're planning ourselves in. Yes. Let's start. I've been doing a little research on carbon footprint kind of. There's a lot of carbon footprint calculators on the internet. And I don't think I found one that seems like really includes everything and I feel really good about it. So I was hoping that with some expertise in this room maybe there is one that is the best because I've been thinking like I really want to know my carbon footprint and I really don't, I really personally feel like I need to make some changes so this won't happen to Montville. And I think the more good data we get out there, the more people that do their carbon footprint, the more people that know, hey, if I don't take this for like, hey, if I do this, hey, if I do this, then with that data, I mean, we can start like a whole thing in Montville, you know, I think of those like charts if we're raising money, you know how it kind of goes up. But if we had some kind of calculation like this is our carbon footprint in Montville, you're right now of whatever a billion times of carbon it is and then we're working our way down by people pledging or something based on a carbon footprint calculator that we're all using. I think we could really get some interest in the community and people taking kind of an individual responsibility for that and I would really, you know, kind of like to work on that end. Cool, great. My name's Kirk, really got that for a second to where we are. You're dealing with the most important issue is if we don't find a way to resolve the question of how to stop climate change and how to deal with the impact through driving climate change, nothing else anybody else is willing to do will make any kind of difference because we're going to go from problem to problem. So the question is where are we? Where we are right now is that we don't believe it's a problem except that people in charge of things have buying the current line that the GOP and our conservatives are running, which is, yeah, we've decided it is a problem but it's not a serious problem. It is a terribly, terribly serious problem and we have to be aware of how serious it is to begin to drive that issue into people's minds. What we miss mostly when we think about this problem is the huge number of positive feedbacks that are built into it. What we miss is the fact that, for instance, one of the most important climate change driving guests is not carbon dioxide, it's water vapor, half of it is, half of the climate change is from water here. How does it get there? Because of the carbon dioxide in the air, more in the air, that warms up the loaded water, it warms up the atmosphere, there's more atmosphere and moisture, don't worry, the atmosphere and moisture is green outcast, so it warms up, and around, around and around and around. Same here, same problem, right, just stop there. Same problem with the methane. Methane has a whole bunch of positive feedbacks to integrate carbon dioxide. Nobody really is talking about how important this problem is, what's actually driving it. So where does it go? I believe Montpelier's in a position in the National Spotlight, and I believe that we are well enough informed about what's going on, that we could create a national model, that you're global model, on how to react to this kind of fault, to this point, specifically how to drive down climate change.  We can do something here that's important. Are there freeing in contests? Yeah, from my perspective, as much as this is a terrible thing, it also leaves us in something of an opportunity to rebuild in a greener way, and I'm a climate activist with the Vermont Youth Lobby, so I have some experience in community organizing, but I don't know a ton about climate technology, and smarter people than me can talk about how to rebuild in a climate-friendly way, and I just want to present that as a question, because I think that's one of the most important issues we can address in this room, is about building back our infrastructure in this city in a greener way, and I want to present that and ask all the very qualified people in this room, and if you have ideas about that. Hey, Graham, I've been here since 1985, moved from Plainfield in a lot earlier in 1992, and I've been up to reading Bill McKibben's The End of Nature and decided I didn't want to drive back and forth anymore. I have this crazy idea that my computer might want to make a plan where we try to move the central business because we've got Charleston where it's from around the area of the college, and set up some kind of either aerial tram or a frequent shuttle service back and forth between there and downtown. Whatever buildings are downtown can actually be torn down and turned into riverine forests in Parkland. Ideal, it would be much better if there's already the floodwaters that are gonna be coming more and more frequently in the future. And I know it's a crazy idea, but to me the crazier idea is actually doing the same thing over again and inspecting a different result and sort of the definition is crazy. So I think we can start this in a trickle and then try to actually develop some sort of a migration but you know, change the zoning of my college to encourage commercial development of a lot. Number two, when businesses downtown started talking about the noble and service at the cap and the coffee shop has already said he's not gonna reopen. Well, hey Glenmore, hey, you're successors. What about opening up at the college next to this, you've been going in there called the Greenway Institute for Sustainable Engineering. I mean, sustainable engineering, I think I love it because what's more sustainable engineering than moving downtown on a hill, right? It seems like there's a lot of synergy here. You know, put a coffee shop next to an academic institution how it's really convenient to them and the business has a greater customer and so on and so forth. I mean, I just think that we need to come up with sort of a solid short-term and long-term plans that are integrated, connected. And the short-term plan could be zoning changes to encourage commercial development out there. The long-term plan and obviously the short-term plan would have to include talking to the Greenway Institute about is there any room up there now? Are there possibilities for some of our small businesses moving up there now? Obviously, we're going to need transportation back and forth with public transportation and, you know, I think, first, I don't know whether the money would ever be available, but I think so. We're going to get an aerial train and be able to cool or just, you know, the small shuttle buses back and forth so that people who are downtown could still get off the hill and put in these other businesses, you know. Let's encourage, you know, so many, I drive through downtown in most days and I go around and I go for a month out and it's still looking like it goes down and I just have this horrible sense of discouragement and if we develop a plan and say, you know, resilient climate change avoidance is great but we also have to be mitigation resilience, planning for the fact that it's kind of already here and that's what's going to give us everybody's forecasting more frequent floods. So I'm starting to need myself to open up. Thanks, Niki. Oh, well this is, whatever, I think it means one of the groups, the riverine corridor, but I just see our town, I live whatever right on the north branch and all the hills coming down, the water is coming down like a river on the streets and I think we can do a lot to try and, whatever, get people to get rid of their lawns and plant things that are just way better at soaking up the rain and there's opportunities on the entire watershed to absorb the water better than what we have now because obviously these big rain events are going to be, whatever, our future but we can, there's a lot we can do to reduce the water going together. So I'm Nancy Scholes and I'm currently serving on the city's Complete Streets Committee which works, advocates for bike pad concerns and previous to my involvement with Complete Streets I was the director of the Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition for about nine years. So I speak as a bike pad advocate and when you mentioned that one of the things we would be talking about are quick, immediate, inexpensive fixes or improvements, paint is a cheap, immediate help and we'll get more people biking in Montpelier and over the years I've worked in advocacy the number one thing people tell me is well I bike but I'm afraid, I'm afraid of the cars and so if we could, as a perfect example, the intersection of state and main, if you're biking along Main Street towards Shaw's and you come to that intersection, you have a choice of, if you want to go straight you don't really want to get in the right turn lane.  So what I typically do and it's perfectly legal is go up between the cars that are turning and the cars that want to go straight and position myself slightly ahead of the car that wants to go straight so I'm out of the way of everyone but there's a simple thing that would make most people feel much more comfortable which is painting that area that I'm describing green. It's a green box that is understood as a safe place for a cyclist to be and we did have a little bit of green on Bailey Avenue for a while. Kind of wears off, it doesn't get replaced.  It's not always smooth and free of debris and broken pavement but striping and creating those green boxes with paint just a super fast thing that could be done that would give people more confidence to ride. All right, so we're transitioning already and this is the perfect time so welcome everyone into the ideas for short term, how are we helping our community recover in climate smart ways and also longer term resilience measures that we can take as a community and we've already captured some good ones. Joseph Gainser from Marfield. I think something that's very easy to do but I think very important is to change the language, stop talking about it as climate change that does not elicit the sense of urgency that the actual effects require. So I think that when we start using language that's a little different and I'm old enough to remember the early women's movement when they talked about the need for changing language we change the way people think. I think that's what we should be starting to do. That's cheap and quick. Thank you. What's the change? Do you have a proposal like Christmas or what's the language change? Well I would not call it climate change. I would call it climate degradation, climate breakdown, something that speaks to the urgency of the times. Change in not just us. I'm not exactly sure where this fits. It was a lot of bleeping over I think in the different issues but Paul Berns would be heard. I kind of think that this problem that we face with climate action and the face of climate change I don't think anything significant is going to happen to really change the trajectory that we are on until the fossil fuel industry is made to help responsible, made accountable for the damage that they have caused here and let's you all know what has happened since the Montpelier flood. If you look at Maui and you look at California and you look at the South and on and on. We couldn't be an example I think for others. If we decided it is time to hold the industry that caused this problem accountable and as you said at the beginning we should take stock of what's already in the works. I do want to note that Senator Ann Watson from Washington County obviously former mayor of Montpelier has agreed to be the chief sponsor of legislation that we are doing to make big oil pay to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the damages that they have caused here. Something on the order of $100 million a year for 25 years. That's not going to cover all the damages that have caused the $2.5 billion in the industry for Vermont would be a nice start to begin to hold accountable. Those numbers could change and all the rest but I do want to mention that Senator Watson is doing this and I would expect other members of the Washington County and Montpelier delegation and many others particularly those representing areas that have been so harmed this summer to step up and be part of that effort too. So I just wanted to know. Yeah, as people are identifying the kind of more state or federal could you just share your perspective on what the Montpelier community could do to support that so that as we think about what we're prioritizing it's the role that we can play to help advance that. And do you think big issues of change are often moved more by a sense of shared values and passion and stories and righteousness and they are very technical arguments that some of us like to make. But I think this if we are ever going to hold this industry accountable in Vermont I think this coming legislative session that we convenes in January in rooms just like this that's going to be the time to do it when we have the people of this community step forward talking to your legislators, your reps, your senators and similar conversations taking place around the state. You might have a chance of convincing legislators who might not otherwise typically be on the leading edge of a campaign to hold the world's most wealthy corporations responsible. I mean none of this is going to be easy. I can't recognize that. But if they're ever going to do it it would be because you all urge or demand that they do so. Leave a like and be passionate. It has not been so far. I'd be happy to talk to you about that. I'm happy that the children, the young people in Montana is just one of the victory there as they step in that process. But we need it all. We need it all. My name's Brian Powell. I live on Lower North Mystery. We've destabilized the climate. We will have more funds. I fear that it's retreatable. Oh, we have years and we can solve the problem. Well, we're not going to. But pretending that we will. And I prefer to act in a positive way. Though I think we do. I try to be conscious of like, I'm forced to drive a car. There are certain things that I just, I'm forced to drive a car. I'm not forced to force drive my clothing.  Is there anybody in this room that does not own a clothes dryer? Bless you. Bless you. Oh my God, we are in all these senses. I am so self-righteous that I'm wearing nothing that has been forced to drive. I agree that we in Montpelier could get something going and we in Montpelier could be invisible. I think we should organize to tell people to kill their dryers. Your clothes will dry by themselves. It's happened since they're been textiles. Now, I know that there are people who live in small apartments for whom this would be. People who don't have deep sinks. You know, our infrastructure is not in favor of that. But you can do it. I have a clothesline on my front porch. I have a wood stove in the winter. I put my grandmother's old drying rack in front of the wood stove and my clothes are dried in a jiffy. That's sweet. All right. All right, well we've got this idea. I wanna keep moving, but it's on the list. Anyway. Kill the dryers. Kill the dryers. Kill the clothes dryers. We're under the carbon footprint. How are we doing camp? We can't do this. It would be Wednesday. Yeah. All right, what else? I think that a lot of people have mentioned that Montpelier and all of Vermont could definitely be a role model for the rest of the world, or America. And I think that's because, especially in the Montpelier community, like a big majority of people are already really careful about their carbon footprint and really good about it. And I think that it's not about changing other people at this point, it's about changing ourselves. And if everyone works on that, even just in a small place, I think you can really affect the rest of the nation or the world. Thank you. I'm not sure if this fits in a quick fix category. I'm not sure where. Well, we can do either long-term or short-term. We're just trying to categorize them. All right. Wonderful scratch. But something I've been working on about the past year is to get my high school to become, to go net zero. The school board, which I now serve on, is working on it and it's taking a lot of work. But one thing that we can work on as a city is making all our city and municipal buildings net zero. Of course, the dream would be to have all our buildings in town net zero, but one stuff at a time. Kate, I don't know if you want to talk about what the city has done in Chris Adams, but just a quick context. Right. Well, obviously, and Chris is here from the city, we're many years into making all the city buildings net zero and are about 50% there. My idea for my big idea, if money was no object. Dream big. Dream big. Dream big. To figure out how the city could support all the buildings that were flooded, moving their mechanical systems out of the flood zone and not being fossil fuel systems and so that whatever goes into replace is electric. And it's a big project and it's not the sort of thing that each homeowner or business owner should be figuring out on their own. And it would need a really concerted effort to go building by building and help design and find the team that can do the work, potentially filling in basements like they did in the Waterbury State Complex and really just making a long road and a hard-term change there. Assuming that the downtown is still downtown and that some of these buildings that are flooded are still gonna be there down the road. So that's my big idea. So my name is Jared Duvall. I work for Energy Action Network where we do a lot of research analysis and tracking on energy and climate issues and I also live on Elm Street. And just from a context perspective, I thought I would share like following up on, I'm sorry, I don't know. Tim's first comment, it's a phenomenally complex area. There are different methodologies for how emissions are measured from a life cycle basis to a kind of point of combustion basis. But I think that in a big picture, if you look statewide for Vermont and I think Montpelier is likely very similar, nearly three quarters of the climate pollution that is produced comes from our use of fossil fuels for how we get around, primarily driving single passenger vehicles and it's the fossil fuel we use to heat homes and buildings, primarily oil and propane boilers and furnaces. So nearly three quarters. Like if we're talking about doing our part, the biggest part of the problem, the most glowing fruit is the fossil fuels that are used for how we get around and how we heat our homes and buildings. And so related to that, one of the questions I have, which relates to something Kate said, is I think one of the challenges that we're seeing downtown right now is for folks who decide to rebuild, not having heating equipment, water heaters, et cetera, in basements that needing to be above grade and also not wanting everybody to have to figure this out themselves. I wonder if in addition to some of the custom building by building specific approaches, I wonder if this might be an opportunity. Again, this is money not being as much of an object. I think it would need some federal support, but is this an opportunity to extend the district heating system? And there's two co-benefits of that. The more users, the more cost effective it becomes for everybody, but then also not every building needs to have its own heating plant and they can just get heat in through a pipe and you don't have to worry about having a furnace or a boiler in your basement. So I think that that's an idea that should be explored. I don't know the numbers on it, I don't know the engineering feasibility, the cost effectiveness, but I think it's a question worth asking because if we're serious about building back better, it needs to be building back without fossil fuel heating systems as much as possible. Can I ask you a follow-up on that? I mean, do we already have it if so much is based on the transportation? You get me somewhere like if I bought a helmet in Undyne River, if I walked down to Undyne River and bought a helmet, bike helmet, versus having Amazon deliver a bike helmet to me. I mean, is there, could we put together like that kind of data to really support the localness of Montpelier trying to not only support businesses, but actually save carbon in that? I mean, is that data out there? I mean, if I was interested in mining that, I mean, could you give me some stuff and I could try to figure all that out? Yeah, I think that there is a big difference between the kind of big picture level, like what are the statewide emissions and then versus like the personal carbon footprint calculator. And I know Kate's done some research on this as well in terms of personal footprint calculators. And I have the same issue with you. It's difficult. Not great. Yeah, I mean, I almost wonder if though there could be, if we know that statewide and we presume in Montpelier our biggest emissions are gonna be transportation and fossil heating. So you could do a campaign of buying local that saving the transportation of the things, the goods that we're buying and also support their downtown. And I think you could come up with the kind of case studies even without the hard numbers, just knowing. So I think we can think about how do we capture our biggest uses of fossil fuels and the kinds of things we can do about it. I thought back there. I was just gonna say like, what about more incentives for electric cars? I mean, if we're all driving wrong vehicles, we need to drive or maybe like incentives for electric cars like sharing them with your neighbor. Let's say you go in on it and you can say you go over to your home. Like, I don't know. Just throwing that out. It's like none of us should be driving gas cars. Sounds like for what he said. Then if we none of us throw gas cars into the air, it's not really an idea. It's just like, I know there's some incentives, but could there be a local incentive? Yeah, you could do a city incentive. If the emissions are gone, could they help us get electric? Yeah. Like they do other things. So there are, yeah, both state and federal tax incentives and they just also announced that there's an additional one of you if your vehicle was damaged by flooding. They're adding to the incentive by an extra $1,000 or something. And could we need to make more charging stations and I'll kill you or something about to make it easier to work with one of those? Yeah, just without, yeah. I wanted to ask a follow-up on kind of a combination of follow-up on the heat in here. It's remarked because I think that I hear you correctly and say you'd like to go to all electric heat and probably heat pumps in downtown buildings, is that right? Mm-hmm. Or district heat potentially. I'm sorry? Or district heat, that is maybe an option in some buildings more than others. Right, and so, but district heat obviously, that's burning wood and so, which does have a carbon footprint of some time and obviously a different strategy than all electric. I've also had a question about the district heat, which is, isn't most of that infrastructure underground and the piping is all underground and how flood resilient is that? It's flood resilient. It's one issue that we did experience with district heat is some of the electronic controls, the heat meters, that type of thing were installed in basements and we lost quite a few of those. That's kind of a function of how the system is designed and how it works. So that was kind of an unfortunate setback. We're scrambling to order new heat meters and get the district heat system back online. To Jared's point, I will say that we've had more interest in new district heat connections since this event than we have at all previously. We're in meetings and talks with specific building owners who hopefully get them connected. Anybody that's not kind of very close to a building that's already on district heat or already has piping in it, the idea of getting district heat pipes to the building and up and running in time for this heating season is, it's a really, really tough lift. So the people are in the position of having to put in some kind of heating system to get through this winter when district heat's not instantaneously, right? So that's kind of a tough pill to swallow. Is there a possible combination of district heat that's got to be where it would be based on heat pumps? All right, we'll leave you with that. Is that the answer for the system? There are hot water geothermal systems that would be a complete change of the district heat system. There's no easy transition to different technologies for the district heat plant that I'm aware of. Hi, I'm Jolyne Diverton. I live here and I'm a music education coordinator at Monteverde Music School. So I have zero expertise in the climate and environmental science realm. So part of my coming here was just trying to understand the bigger picture. I have no idea what's possible, what's affordable. It's almost overwhelming, but what I do feel is a lot like what I love to paint. I love to paint? Yeah, me too. Sorry, I'm not even on it, but what you said about organizing people and advocating, I feel like the climate crisis or whatever better language that creates a better sense of urgency. What I'm really feeling is this is as much an education informational and communications issue. I talk to people all the time who are incredibly smart and well educated and have a great life experience who don't recycle, don't, you know, they're not remorseful, they don't have those, but you know, like it's just, it's not connecting what we're experiencing and what our daily habits are for so many people. Maybe a fewer percentage of them are maybe, but for me, that's like what gives me like this feeling of, you know, doing an existential despair is like, that not enough people are freaking out. We need more people to be freaking out, but then taking wise action. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. That's where we are. So that's one thing I'll just say, I am very interested in being part of any kind of rebranding of climate crisis that's freaking here. The other can happen too because I know nothing in the areas. There must be models so, cities and towns and places all over the world where they're doing a better job the best we are and I'm just so curious like in the interest of not reinventing the wheel, I'm sure you all probably know of them, but like what can you just do with the other studies you're doing that's working? A lot of these ideas I think are great and doable, but there must be so many more that they can, so I think that's the most. Or the other one. I just wanted to say, like, what's amazing is I was an exchange student in Switzerland in 1983. See, this is my hand. And I'll just tell you, literally, they took their own bags to the market, down the street from, and this was in the city, there was a big metal thing, put your bottles in here, your canes in here, I mean it was like, they have been doing it in Europe for so long, and they have been hanging their clothes dry. And everyone in the building gets one wash day, I mean it's like, there are so many models out there, and they have been biking to school, and go heading to school forever. And they're just so far behind, and we've just been so unwilling to make changes in our lives, because we're just vapes, and, but I think that we just looked across the pond, we just looked across the pond, and found any old city, and said like, what are they doing? And they don't need packaged food, they're just like, it's just like a completely different culture, and I think there are a lot of examples in places outside of this country. Question? Yes. Does Montalier have sister cities? Montalier, what? I have a sister city in Montalier, France, right? Yeah? Is there a formal sister city relationship? I don't know, so. No, so what is it? They sent us some stuff. I don't know. I don't know. They want to meet across the pond and pick a random city, if there's one that's up, they're already in a relationship. I don't think they're leading a climate. Yeah. What's that? Only if they're leading a climate. I was going to say, I think they're only allowed because they're across the pond. They're European. I'll want to hear you.  I'll want to hear you for your part. Just swim there a little. So, I'm Johanna Miller. I lead the Energy and Climate Program with the Vermont Natural Resources Council. I'm on the Climate Council with Jared, but more so, I live on Redstone here in Montalier. Love so many of these ideas. I guess I would say too that my theory of change is really about changing the policies so that we can make it easy and affordable or incentivize or require people to do the right thing. I totally believe in individual change. I think that Kill Your Dryer inspired, but I also think we need a policy framework that drives the change at the scale and pace that we need. And thankfully, we actually have incentive programs like through the Inflation Reduction Act and through our partners at Efficiency Vermont. There are utilities who are exploring how can we help customers rebuild and rewire with clean electricity instead of locking into fossil fuels. So, one short-term idea, because I think it builds off a lot of really good ideas in this room is, because I do believe in the power of leadership and the power of models, I think one of you fabulous ladies, said that is there potential to do some sort of resolution from the capital of declaring climate emergency?  It is a climate emergency. We actually have a law in the state of Vermont called the World War Solutions Act that acknowledges that we're in climate emergency and says we have to cut pollution in line with the science and we are so far off it, largely because of heating and transportation. So, I do wonder if symbolically we could, in the short-term, have a resolution that says and recognizes and talks about the need for declaring it climate emergency. We can talk about, these are being fossil fuel disasters if you haven't read Jared's recent piece in Vermont Digger about stop calling these natural disasters, these are fossil fuel disasters. We get the knowledge, we need to focus on transportation and heating. We should ask our legislative leaders in this body, including Allison. We have a lot of champs in the state legislature and in our congressional delegation who we can lean on to ask them to help maximize the incentives that we should hold polluters accountable, that we should help people and businesses in Vermont in this moment access the funding and the solutions that they need. I think something that articulates that in the short-term could be helpful for long-term policy progress and also just education, who said that? I think maybe that could be one short-term idea. And I think other cities and towns in the state of Vermont would be interested. Yeah, question. Yes. Yeah, so the legislature declares a state of climate emergency and what special powers would the governor get? It would be an interesting question to explore, but if some city did that first, I actually think some other towns in Vermont have done this. But in this moment, I don't know how many others, but in this moment with this particular capital city like devastated by climate-induced disaster, like it feels like a powerful statement and it could reflect a lot of the really good ideas that you all put forward and help us put pressure in the right places at the state level and the federal level. I see a couple more hands. So we've got about five more minutes for ideas. Did just want to bucket. So if we do, when we get into prioritization, just noting the city does put together like a lobbying portfolio, like a package of priorities for the community we could do potentially like a climate emergency and name some things that we want to advocate for as a city. I think the stories that we all have to come into this building and share of what these fossil fuel disasters are doing to communities to build the urgency. So when we're coming back out to the big group, you know, maybe there's a set of policy priorities, state policies that we want to as a community advocate for that could be under an umbrella of a climate emergency, just trying to package some things up and go through. And also hearing a lot of ideas about kind of community engagement you do of our energy advisory committee that Kate and I and Chris serve on and have an average team of stuff. So we could think as we're thinking, we could think about how that group and maybe somebody wanted to like, could be doing, you know, I feel like there's kind of like, public relations opportunities around education and like packaging up some of the things that are out there around incentives and if we're seeing gaps in incentives, maybe the city's doing more or that goes on our state policy agenda. But just hearing a lot of really, exciting threads and I think it was Joseph and then you. Oh, okay. Well, clearly from what everybody is saying, this is a multi-layered issue and that's one of the reasons why we can't, we haven't come as a nation together on it because there's so many impacts and they are delayed impacts and we do not see a direct effect of the things we do, negative and positive. So clearly we know that. So it's going to take individual action but we have to recognize and you know, I hear Joanna and Paul referring to this is that this is going to take system change. It's not just individual behavior that has to change although that does and have to change and I fully agree with everybody who has brought that up but we have to look at the system itself and we have to look at the issue of consumption, who consumes too much, who consumes too little, how do we even that out a little bit so that everybody has a dignified life? This is not something that Montpelier alone could do clearly but some people have talked about Montpelier being a model or Vermont being a model for the nation, perhaps for the world. How do we address the issue of economic injustice? How do we address the issue of over consumption? We have a system, an economic system that requires people to consume in order for it to continue to work. Consumers are 70% of the national economy. We keep being told that. When consumers conserve and don't spend money on various things like dryers, clothes dryers and things like this, this is a downer for the economy. So we live in an ecology that the economy is a part of, ecological economics has been telling us that for years. When do we put the ecology first, put the economy second and the economy serves the ecology not the other way around? How do we do that on a local level? How do we begin to move in that direction? I'm Robert Gilbert from East Montpelier and if I was the king of Vermont, I would do a couple of things. One, I would close the end state every Sunday and a lot of bicyclists would end up in that end state. I would also try to figure out a way maybe it's simply an outright ban on the recreational fossil fuel consumption. There's snowmobiles, motorboats, those kinds of things. Jet speeds. Jet speeds, yeah, those would all be really positive steps. And then figuring out a way to price fossil fuels in a way that's realistic is like a three-ninety-nine per gallon gas rate. And that does not reflect all the costs to go into it and whether that's something that can be addressed on a state level and obviously if you made gasoline, $10 a gallon and everybody could go to New Hampshire to buy it. But I do think that the way we price fossil fuels is not the same. One last point is that all of the experts tell us that we're gonna have additional storms like we had last month. In fact, more of them and worse of them. And so I am not convinced that rebuilding our downtown is really a great idea, especially with that. I'll do two more and then transition us. We always do something. We'll do three more. Or we just do three more. Yeah, we just do three more. Yes, yeah, we go. Hi, I'm June Leanne Denning, that's a long main street and I'm also the business owner. I own J-Lean and on main street. I wanted to talk about the carbon footprint idea. When we first moved here 15 years ago on one of the first days of school, my mom thought it would be J-Lean and had five questionnaires for everyone in the family, including yourself, about their carbon footprint. So I understand from my good friend that they know that it's not an easy thing to do to equate because of the different types. But if we did come up with something, using perhaps our incredible young minds from high school, some sort of questionnaire, it could get more people involved in making a model. And I think Montclair would be an amazing model for this idea. I'm originally from Houston, Texas, and I'm continually surprised by how you can actually make a difference here. I remember my first time here, I saw Bernie Sanders and Anne Cummings in a parade. And I was like, what are they doing here? You know, I've never seen a government official. I've never been in a state house. To go to Austin, you have to get padded down. This is 25 years ago. So I think the carbon footprint idea is a great idea just to get every single person aware of what happens when you take an airplane, how much carbon, you know, those kind of numbers I think are important. And as for your idea about holding fossil fuel corporations accountable, I think that is an excellent idea. And I think that there's, I know, three lawyers right now that would love to do that. Sure. And yeah, it's a big thing, but do it anyway. Look at the kids in Montana, do it anyway. Let them play first to have a lawsuit against, we'll do the research and find who's the biggest abuser. I don't know, I think there's seven in the United States that are the biggest that have the most emissions. So I think that's a great idea. Just let someone with a lawsuit, why not?  And I don't think the building is the best idea. We are rebuilding, because I think the town means it, but we're rebuilding with wound down, final, it's flood resistant, but we've been very thoughtful about how we're putting that together. So that's what I think. And I was wondering from Miss Samantha, are these heating units you're getting, are they gonna be on the first floor? How does that work for the city? The city's biggie here. How much would you replace the controls? They have to be on the piping, which is all the best there. So the district heat unit will be back in the basement, unfortunately. And that means that there's no way they could be moved out? It's anything possible, and it's a very large re-piping for each and every building to put those up on the first floor. There are some portions of just the heating that are connected only by wires, and those are more easily included on there. It couldn't be a word. What's that? It couldn't be a word. They're very difficult to remember. All right, we've got two more comments, and then we're transitioning to prioritization. Okay, I know we're short on time, so I'll make this concise. I wanna, can you remind me of your name? Nancy. Nancy, I wanna repeat Nancy's idea, just anything to do with the transportation sector. For one, making our downtown as friendly to bikers, walkers, electric vehicles as possible, so charging stations, and also repainting the roads in a more pedestrian-friendly way and even, I've heard a lot of people flip the idea of making roads, maybe not openly hostile to gas cars, but not encouraging gas cars on roads. And also just expanding public transportation and making it as reliable and even just functional as possible in more failure and all around the state, because as someone who's parents have both pride to use public transportation to do their homework, it's not a viable option. Yeah, because you're just saying public transportation, at least a train, like if you go to the train station, there's the one train that carries people, and which doesn't go through town, and then there's the other train for the cargo train, which goes directly through town. And I think that if there was some way they can make a train that fit that track for it to carry people, then it could be a really good way to get right into the middle of town and then just have a stop there and you would be like right there. So I think that trains is something that people should consider. Okay, Carl, big ask of you. How easy would it be to just quickly hit not the details, but just run through the ideas we've heard as to refresh our minds, and then I'm gonna ask people to name what's jumping out to you, as again, our assignment is one to three priorities. I think we could do some one thing, and get some ideas packaged together, because there's a lot of really good ones, but. Is that? It'll take a few minutes, but I can do it. Is it gonna be long and short term, the priorities that would? Ideally, if we've got some immediate things that we think we could jump on or we could just assign to the city to look into, we could have some idea of that bucket and then some, I mean, if you've got some state policy ideas, I think we could do some of that, what we might wanna advocate for the community and then some things the city could be doing, so. Lauren, thank you. It's a big topic, so we can use it. I just wanted to ask if while Carl's sorting through that, if I can put something on the table, I think connects a couple of ideas that might be. Is that more when it gets a prioritization? I'm not gonna do anything, I'm ready to go. Oh, you're ready to go, okay. But bring that idea and we get to it. Okay, so I'm just gonna go through and pull up the concrete ideas and we'll leave out the questions. I think that's okay. So for example, carbon footprint calculators, can we get everyone on board to use a common one and use it for a pledge to reduce individual carbon use and calculate how much town as a whole is producing? Use the current downtown for river flow and move the business district out to the VCFA campus. Get rid of lawns and other surfaces that don't absorb water well and plant things and so forth. Soak up the rain. Use paint to make the streets safer for bicyclists. Stop talking about climate change. Make the fossil fuel industry pay through legislation. Get rid of your clothes dryer or buy a clothes dryer or dry a clothes online. Don't use your clothes dryer if you have one. Get the ice cold till you're net zero. If you get destroyed, make all the city buildings net zero or about 50% of the way there. Make incentive for electric cars, especially if shared by neighbors. More charging stations for electric cars in Montpelier. Let's talk about district heating and making that more available to people versus making electric heat available to people or incentivize for people and getting the electric heat equipment up on the first floor. Look for inspiration in other places. Other cities are doing a better job than we are including random places across the pond. Possible climate emergency declaration. Figure out how to include addressing consumption, especially over consumption and economic injustice. Closing down the interstate every Sunday and letting banks ride on the interstate. Shut down snowmobiles and other recreational vehicles and use fossil fuels for new ones here. Having a train that carries people comes downtown. I think that's voted. Did I miss any major concrete idea? I just want to make one correction. You had said, Joseph said, stop talking about climate change. He actually said, use different language. Yes. Thank you. Okay, so we've gotten refreshed. That's good. Exactly. A lot of good ideas here. Does anybody want to make a proposal, like anything jumping out to you as a couple priorities or do you have an idea of loving some things? Well, I just wanted to get something on the table. It may be part of this list, but I'm thinking about examples in other cities and what they've done. And it goes back to a little bit what you were talking about, Larry, in terms of, so one of the things that a city can do, of course, with a state that would need to allow it to happen, but is to set requirements around what type of equipment can be purchased and installed. So in some cities they are phasing out the installation of new fossil equipment or fossil dependent heating equipment or others. So that could be one approach. The other approach that is actually up in Burlington is they basically, for any new construction, and I believe it's also going to apply to kind of renovations or putting in a replacement heating system, they will allow you to put in a fossil heating system. But what you have to do is calculate the estimated lifetime social cost of carbon and they assign you that carbon.


This is going viral. Let's talk about it Listen, this is a little bit of a scuff up between a ramen restaurant in the UK and a UK influencer But a lot of Americans are commenting on it. Whoo. We gotta talk about it This went viral on Nexshark hundreds and hundreds of comments some people are supporting here Some people are supporting over there. Make sure you like subscribe turning your notifications and but you know what?  Anyways, it's coming back soon So anyway long story short. There's this place called lucky ramen in sushi in the UK and it looks pretty good I'm gonna pop up some of the photos here. They've got a duck tonkatsu some French Japanese brioche brunch toast anyway, somebody messages them and They blocked out the account. He goes them. Hey, sorry. I know it's kind of short notice But I'm in Manchester tomorrow, and I'm looking for somewhere to brunch with my partner Would you open for a collab with me and a post on my story and page? But then lucky ramen in them they reposted this and they aired them out saying really, you know We appreciate that you like our food, but we appreciate paying customers even more Look another DM from a blue tick superstar asking for a free meal. Oh David we are I never called ourselves food influencers I always consider ourselves content creators and cultural explorers comedians whatever I Cannot say that this does not relate to some of what we do because we do go to restaurants sometimes and we've gotten some free food We've paid for up most of it, but sometimes we get free stuff this London bloke Andrew then said Personally, I think you're bang out of order.  You don't think people like us don't deserve to eat for free because in case you didn't realize we are helping our best to promote you for free So you don't you just a free meal to compensate our time labor effort and positive energy We are supplying for you So who's laughing now if you want to expose us? Influencers and then of course Andrew lucky ramen and sushi fired back again with another post and then the internet Chimed in all over the place. So basically David it comes down to a lot of people I feel like most people are taking the restaurant owners lucky ramen side being like yo We hate influencers yourself entitled blah blah blah and then there's another side That's not necessarily defending the influencer, but there are a lot of people who are influencers themselves saying hey I get it you guys hate influencers But I feel like the restaurant owner might have overreacted probably didn't need a column out because the message wasn't that bad Anyways, we're gonna give you our thoughts because we're unfortunately in a similar space sometimes So I'll give you our perspective again, please hit that like button. We'll go through the comments section I really didn't like that influencers initial message. There's no punctuation It's super short from what I can tell lucky ramen and sushi is actually really really popular They do 50% off on Mondays and Tuesdays. So that's already like super cheap 50% off is a big I know I never even seen a restaurant in America do that to be honest I was like man how slow are Mondays and Tuesdays, but the food looks good It looks like they run a complex system with a lot of moving parts Why would you message somebody and it's not like that 360,000 followers or 3.6 million followers on influence on Instagram This person who's asking for the free mail only at 36,000, right? And I will say this the restaurant owner blocking out the name of the influencer Does help and I respect that a little bit more than actually airing out their entire identity Right because that would have brought them a ton of negative Yeah, but I also would have made them look bad too, right because the restaurant owner is it more attacking Influencers in general now instead of this particular influencer by blocking out the face and identity But anyways, so you don't like the initial message How bad is it though on a scale of one to five five being the worst five being the worst I give it a two point five. So it's not the worst message But it definitely could have been worded differently because I know that a lot of people will message business owners Like this is something that just people do and say like hey I'd love to like film at your spot. Is there a time to do it? but you're right the way it's worded and Kind of like they didn't really offer enough value in the beginning It did seem a little bit like I'd say that wasn't great, right? So other people were saying why is this owner of Lucky sushi and ramen so sassy though, too Like do you think that they I mean aren't they within their right to pop off though? If they feel like they work hard at their business and the influencers are not valuing their work So they have the right to air them out because it brings them more pressed to air them out Yeah, so so I think there's two plays one the restaurant owner by calling out the influencer kind of gets some Attention for themselves, right like you now know what Lucky sushi and ramen in Manchester is and I never was gonna know who they Right now But I will say that initial message isn't exactly disrespectful in itself in itself word-for-word is not disrespectful They didn't say oh, well you better give me this or else. I'm gonna you know never come by even negative review Yeah, now the the next message from the influencer in response was super entitled And so therefore I do believe that this influencer is not handling this correctly. So anyways basically My old take is I feel like the restaurant owner Might overreacted a little bit, but that initial influencer has shown their their true colors And is an entitled little punk, you know why I realized I went on the Instagram page of Lucky sushi and ramen and they're popping like on certain days they have like a big-ass line and They're one of the only like modern Pan-Asian fusion spots and like all of Manchester, which is like one of the You know not London, but one of the bigger cities in the UK They're the only people bringing that hyper modern like, you know, Singapore Hong Kong New York vibe.  All right, so here's my take I don't think that people should blanket and hate all influencers But they should hate this type of influencer this self important self-entitled bad grammar no mini EPK No electronic press kit They didn't even try to make a pitch because if you value yourself like an advertising firm because that's the you what you believe You're adding to the economy. Then why don't you make a pitch like an advertising firm for example? I guess what would you have wanted them to say let's edit their message to something that? Doesn't warrant a reaction like that Hey, sorry for the late notice I was wondering if I could come through in exchange for a meal and if you really want to even say that Sometimes you just got to leave it up to the restaurant to comp it or give you half off or whatever I can give you this amount of IG stories this amount of static posts I've done had this amount of reach and this a much amount of impact and here's some analytics Okay, you justify yourself Okay, provide the business case for this business I think you should add on. Hey, by the way, if you're super busy, you don't want to deal with this. That's fine I totally understand I might still come by anyways, you know what I mean, right? Like I think as a as a person who wants content out of it or a meal if that's your goal first of all You shouldn't just film at restaurants that you want a free meal at you shouldn't just do it just because hey I need a free meal somewhere and I don't want to pay for lunch But if you are gonna go into a restaurant, you have to be ready to not pay like to me all these spots that we've ever filmed at We go in there.  And I'm like, that's fine. Whatever you want to bring I'm gonna pay. I'm ready to pay though And let's be honest. There may have been some sort of like Conti vibe that the lucky Ramen sushi owner picked up from this influencer. I mean just look at their initial message pop it back up And here are some reasons why the internet says that they hate influencers Number one self-obsession reign supreme narcissism. Would you agree? I'm not saying all but a lot of influencers are narcissistic Spreading mindless consumerism number two. I agree Number three fake AF lifestyles trying to make their life look perfect. We all know it's really not that good point number four in Authentic relationships, they'd be friends with other influencers to cross pollinate the user bases, but not actually be homies This is exactly why I don't call ourselves influencers. I know that we fall within that category I get it. I get it, but I don't use that term for myself. I always correct people Exploiting FOMO for personal gain Turning friendships into transactions the glorification of hedonism Undermining real talent breeding a culture of entitlement and dumbing down our society now The number one job that most middle and high school kids want in America is to be an influencer because they see it as a Talentless way to live a Justin Bieber Taylor Swift superstar lifestyle without having any of the talent that they have I will never forget this quote It says you call yourself an influencer, but what are you influencing people to do? Let's get into the comment section Andrew Somebody said meanwhile brands expecting influencers to work for free in exchange for samples restaurants do this too I'm pro influencer. I'm an influencer myself. I'm defending influencers. That was one of the perspectives that I saw Yeah, I could see that I think like I said if you're gonna offer the value Make the case and then let the business decide whether they want to do the integration or not Yeah, what yeah, I think just trust me even the tone of what you write matters a lot nowadays guys in your DMs If you say hey man a big fan of your restaurant I don't know if you guys do this type of thing But I'd love to come by and do a meal and do some posts if you could help out with the meal That's great. If not that's okay, and you just humble yourself and say that's okay If you can't do it if you had thrown if they had thrown some of that language in there I think it would have softened the message and then that Restaurant could have just ignored it or said no, but since it just it just didn't it was lacking a little bit of that You got a DM correctly guys. Well, they weren't trying very hard. They weren't trying somebody said I work out a trendy restaurant I have to deal with influencers. It's a nightmare They're always asking for free stuff throwing a tantrum name dropping not letting the food runners and servers do their job Basically clogging up the system because they want to take their food a certain way and get a certain lighting So basically this person was like saying like I'm against them as somebody who works in the restaurant industry Of course Andrew there was some debate about how much an impact an influencer has on a restaurant's bottom line okay, so The truth is certain ticktocks and instagrams have gone viral and changed that business for that year or maybe changed the course of that business Reviews a lot of Businesses in certain cities. Yeah just everybody we have a whole bunch of food influencer friends in New York that some of their things Have gone viral and actually and just changed that business to be honest like but sometimes it's just hot for a moment And then it fizzles. No, I mean and sometimes it doesn't do anything I get it so there is no like the best thing that a restaurant can do is if they have the Organization is do like a PR day where they invite influencers to come try and it's just an influencer day So it's like hey, we invited you let's get some free food, but everybody's got to give us content That's that's a totally fair exchange and that happens all the time But I think when you go in there and you start Messing with the system like he said like things are quick and you're like hold on Hold on. Can you move the thing and then you get and then you go. Oh, can you make that look better? Oh, can you move my french toast and it's like then you're just like yo chill out like well Who do you think you are now if you got 10 million? Viewers and you know like you're like I hate to say it But like you're a celebrity like a Kim K or a Bella Hadid Maybe you can ask for more things like that But ultimately like just stay out of their way All right, so I have two final thoughts Andrew usually the really big influencers They don't ask for free stuff because they're either gonna get it for sure or they made enough money influencing They can just do things for free for content. That's a good point.  Just be ready to pay like and sometimes you'll get some free stuff Maybe they'll offer you don't have to take it Maybe you take it but to ask and like bug them about it and kind of be like well, you know I I have followers, you know, that's like the last in the restaurants is me like yo And everybody's in struggle too I remember one time we drove like maybe ten thousand dollars worth of business to this dim sum restaurant in Monterey Park I won't name it Atlantic seafood and dim sum shout out to them though I hope they're still doing good, but I remember they gave us a free Diet Coke And that was the only thing that they gave us and I was just like oh, it's all good You know what I mean, but I did you mean after the video Oh my god, you brought up so much business man.  It's it is whatever That's that's what it is. Yeah, do you think though? I will say this final point that the fact that the num Everybody wants to be influencer and the fact that celebrity culture it seems in this late late stage capitalism system that we're in Andrew, that's why some influencers I'm not saying all influencers, but a portion of influences that are high profile the ones that nobody likes They are self-important because all these factors are coming together to allow them to feel self-important over a doctor Over a lord, you know, I mean somebody structural to this society a policeman I'm saying that the worship of celebrity and the fact that all the kids want to be them Theoretically, that's what makes them have an inflated self.  Yo, this is what it is Hey, if I could I come in and film blah blah blah blah blah and then if the manager is like, uh, sorry No, then you that's it. That's the answer and there's no controversy about that But when you just like ask you're asking someone to go into their DMs and deal with you while they're trying to serve food It is it is like a whole different thing So for sure and also all these people who are just like the trendy foodies It's way different than what we did which is like supporting the community and going into like the spots that these people would never even Just tell them if you're gonna DM and you want to let a restaurant know you're coming just tell them Hey, I got a table. I'll see you there I'm gonna be there tonight. I'm very excited and you leave it at that and if they read it and they see your thing and they're like Oh, that's really cool. Thanks for coming and then they want to give you a discount great But then you just told them that you're coming so then there's nothing like you're not asking anything But you do you are notifying them so then they can make their own decision, you know Hey, let us know what you think ton of comments both ways obviously mostly supporting the restaurant But not everybody was let us know what you think in the comment section below until next time We the hop hop boys we out. Peace


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