Vermont Business Magazine Burton, the world’s leading snowboard company, today announced that it’s becoming a Certified B Corporation. As a sustainability leader within the outdoor and winter sports industries, Burton has become the first snowboard company to receive this certification, which reinforces the brand’s commitment to doing business as a force for good. Widely recognized as the gold standard for responsible business, B Corps are committed to practicing the highest social and environmental standards.

Vermont Business Magazine US Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced new legislation that would eliminate the family and employment green card backlog by increasing the number of green cards. Close to four million future Americans are on the State Department’s immigrant visa waiting list.

Vermont Business Magazine Foodworks, the Groundworks-run community resource in Brattleboro, increased its storage capacity while transforming the shopping experience at their new Canal Street location where shoppers are invited to pick up the food they need for free. Food Connects visited the location last month to participate in a trauma and food focused community of practice with a group of Groundworks staff. The group was formed as a result of the Food and Trauma Training Food Connects put on last spring, in collaboration with Equity Solutions, and their takeaways from the training are present throughout the new community resource.

Vermont Business Magazine In a brief filed on Monday, October 14, the Attorney General’s Office asked the Vermont Supreme Court to uphold Vermont’s recently enacted large-capacity magazine ban, 13 VSA § 4021. A coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia, the Giffords Law Center, and Everytown for Gun Safety also filed amicus curiae briefs yesterday at the Supreme Court in support of Vermont’s magazine ban.

Vermont Business Magazine According to environmental activists, global carbon emissions must be halved in the next decade to avoid serious impacts from global heating, but they are still rising, even in Vermont. On a national level, some US states have seen greater improvements in reducing carbon emissions and increasing renewable output. To find the states leading the way on renewable energy, SmartAsset analyzed seven metrics including the five-year change in CO2 emissions, renewable energy as a percent of total energy production and the number of policies and incentives that support renewable energy and energy efficiency. Vermont ranked 14th on the SmartAsset list.