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Letters to the Editor (12/23/20)

Smoking Gun? [Re Weinberger Knew of Burlington Police Chief s Anonymous Twitter Account, December 15]: There is one way to get to the bottom of the mayor s apparently false account of the actions he claims to have taken when he learned of the chief s online activities. If he took the chief s gun and badge, there would be documentation at the police department regarding the disposition of those sensitive items. In fact, there should be a record of the mayor turning them in within a day or so of him taking them from the chief. Such records would give great weight to the mayor s version of events. A lack of such records well, just sayin .

Vermont Architects Address the Climate Crisis Through the Built Environment

Net-zero house by Rolf Kielman Last month, I had a heat pump installed in our Burlington home. The centrally ducted system helps address the climate crisis by replacing some natural-gas-fueled heat during the shoulder seasons with heat generated by electricity. Burlington s electricity comes from all-renewable sources the wood-chip-fired McNeil Generating Station, hydro and wind rather than fossil fuels. So the Burlington Electric Department, which also serves as the city s energy-efficiency utility, is incentivizing such carbon-reducing measures with rebates. Of our total bill, $6,900, BED rebated $4,500. That made me feel good, of course. But, considering that the built environment accounts for 39 percent of the world s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, it s a drop in the bucket. A more comprehensive approach to reducing buildings fossil fuel use and carbon emissions is urge

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