Why Should We Keep Intervale Compost Open?

Well, we finally have set up the TrailSpeak kiosk for 2008. We have asked our kick off question since Burlington's wonderful Intervale Compost facility is under threat of closure. Feel free to come by and sign the petition or call your local and state leaders to urge them to solve the political impasse. Thanks!

Current Answers:

• Keeping the intervale composting open is compatible with sustainable uses for the intervale area. Keep food out of the landfill.
  
• That lovely smell in the Intervale keeps me connected to my food and where it comes from. Let's not forget how we get food.
  
• I appreciate the petition and support the Intervale but I didn't sign the petition because I thought putting down my name on an unattended list could create a chance for this info to be misused by someone. Peace.

Petition Signers:

• Nancy Comstock
• Jeff Comstock
• Craig Chipman
• Lee Lazarev
• Susan Lazarev
• Trevor Stuart
• Bryan Stuart
• Gary Stuart
• Phoebe Berkel
• Bob Berkel
• Isabel Kloumann

Closed For The Season

Hi friends and neighbors,

With the cold weather and our ongoing house renovation project, we've decided to close down TrailSpeak until next spring. Thank you all for your wonderful responses to the kiosk's questions.

~ Rebecca and Chapin

Current Question: What one event in history would you change...and why?

September / October Answers:

• The extinction of the dinosaurs. Why? We'd have awesome hunting.
• Me being bad. ~ Kenadee
• I would have met my love Theresa sooner so we could have spent even more wonderful years together.
• Make the reparations imposed on Germany after WWI less harsh. Perhaps this would have prevented their economic collapse which enabled the Nazi's rise to power.
• I would stop the invention of the wheel so that people would have been more inclined to stay home rather than spreading their stuff on other people's fields. ~ Steph
• My birth, then I would bear no witness to human's decline.
• Stop Hitler no later than Czechoslovakia to avoid WWII.
• The colonization of "primitive" peoples, which then lead to civil wars, genocide, etc.
• Bush being "elected".
• I would change it so that nobody would steal stuff.
• The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It ushered in a whole new world of violent possibilities that will never be taken back.
• The invention of welding and forging steel. There would be no guns, cars or mechanized farms.
• I would change the fact that I ever met Anne.
• I would take back September 11 -- we wouldn't be scared into really bad decisions.
• No war because people die a lot. ~ Ella
• We should have let the South secede the first time.
• Dan Qualye letting GMO food to the market without any long-term knowledge of the experiment on our food supply, on human beings and plants and animals.
• The total destruction and desecration of Indian land and culture.
• I wouldn't change anything. If we change an event it would only happen at another time and place.
• The birth Jesus Christ. We've been cursed ever since with the arrogant concept that the son of God came to earth...we are all sons and daughters of the great spirit.