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Vermont Business Magazine Today Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) announced that Casella Waste Systems, Hula and Mamava have joined the organization’s core group of Champion Members. VBSR’s cohort of 24 Champion Members, which includes King Arthur Baking Company, Seventh Generation, Ben & Jerry’s, and Green Mountain Power, are corporate social responsibility icons – in Vermont and beyond. Brands around the globe look to these Vermont industry leaders to learn how to guide their businesses toward a just, thriving, and transformative economy that works for all people and the planet.

Vermont Business Magazine GSR Solutions LLC (dba NutriHarvest) and Green Mountain Dairy Farm recently achieved commercial operation of GSR’s biotechnology for dairy farms to transform liquid manure wastewater into value-added fertilizers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture provided funding assistance for the project’s implementation along with project partners. Since 2013, GSR has worked with dairy farms to commercialize a sustainable nutrient treatment solution for dairy manure and food waste that creates value. The result is a novel technology, GSR-AD-BOLT, that extracts most of the nutrient value from waste effluents from anaerobic digesters and creates valuable organic fertilizer. These products can either be sold or used on-site by the farm. The final water output is clean and can be applied for reuse at the farm.

Vermont Business Magazine GSR Solutions LLC (dba NutriHarvest) and Green Mountain Dairy Farm recently achieved commercial operation of GSR’s biotechnology for dairy farms to transform liquid manure wastewater into value-added fertilizers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture provided funding assistance for the project’s implementation along with project partners. Since 2013, GSR has worked with dairy farms to commercialize a sustainable nutrient treatment solution for dairy manure and food waste that creates value. The result is a novel technology, GSR-AD-BOLT, that extracts most of the nutrient value from waste effluents from anaerobic digesters and creates valuable organic fertilizer. These products can either be sold or used on-site by the farm. The final water output is clean and can be applied for reuse at the farm.

Vermont State Police The investigation is continuing into a series of hoax calls that targeted K-12 schools across Vermont on Wednesday with false reports of shootings. Vermont law enforcement is aware of 21 schools that were targeted by the calls, which were received from 8:40 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. Wednesday at the main line of a dispatch center, police department or town office. All of the threats were determined to be unfounded.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott will attend the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington, DC, this week. In addition to meetings with other governors, diplomats and Biden Administration officials, on Saturday Governor Scott will lead a panel discussion with Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont on energy resiliency. Governor Scott will also participate in a meeting of fellow New England governors and President Biden’s Council of Governors.

Vermont Business Magazine To ensure financially challenged households stay connected to their world, T-Mobile — through Assurance Wireless, the Un-carrier’s Lifeline Assistance brand — expands its participation in the federal government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) to seven additional states bringing the total number where T-Mobile offers ACP to 48 states and the District of Columbia. With ACP, eligible households can get what they need to stay connected. Now, qualified households in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming may be eligible for a $30 monthly discount (up to $75 on tribal lands) toward internet service on certain plans.

Vermont Business Magazine How can responsible forest management help create vibrant habitat for Vermont’s birds? Join Ethan Tapper, the Chittenden County Forester, and Audubon Vermont for a free, public walk of a forest management project at the Westford Town Lands. We’ll walk an area of the WTL which is currently being managed and talk about forests, forest management, birds, and forest ecology. Audubon Vermont’s Foresters for the Birds program, a partner of Vermont’s Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation since the program’s establishment in 2008, is an innovative project that works to keep forests as forests and common birds common by advancing principles and on-the-ground projects that integrate the practices of timber and songbird habitat management across the state of Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine Ten million tennis balls have been recycled by South Burlington-based RecycleBalls, the leading tennis ball recycling organization in North America. Equating to 639 US tons of repurposed and recycled tennis balls. More than 1,000 tennis facilities and 5,000 individuals have been involved in the recycling effort with tennis balls contributed from 48 states and Canada. Tennis balls come from many sources including the US Open and community groups that clean them from waterways. These collaborations underscore the growing importance of sustainability in sports and highlights the impact that organizations and individuals can make when they work together.

Vermont Business Magazine Fidium’s multi-gig fiber internet with WiFi 6 is now available to small businesses in all Fidium communities, including: California, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont. The simple, affordable service gives entrepreneurs control over their internet network and WiFi empowering their business. Startups and small businesses in Vermont that have outgrown residential internet service now have access to Fidium Fiber’s new Fidium@Work offering. The service is available in more than 40 Vermont communities.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Fish and Wildlife has announced that three fish caught in 2022 were certified as new state records. In February, Swanton angler Matt Gingras landed a new Vermont record burbot while fishing on northern Lake Champlain in the West Swanton area. The burbot, caught on a live golden shiner set under a tip-up, weighed 10.9 pounds and measured 32 ½ inches long with a 17-inch girth. It beat the previous state record burbot caught in 2012 by 2.1 pounds. Unfortunately for Matt, his reign as the state record burbot holder lasted just two months.

Vermont Business Magazine Efforts by the South Royalton Legal Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) have secured the first-ever non-binary gender marker to appear on an initial birth certificate in the state of Vermont. This is a historic moment for Vermont, allowing for the first time individuals to use the gender X marking on initial birth certificates. Until now, gender markers could be amended to reflect X, but the identifier was not recognized on the initial, at-birth document. The appeal was filed on behalf of Vermont parents who submitted a birth certificate for their newborn child with X gender, abstaining from assigning the child a binary gender at the time of birth.