by Paul Bean
As Central Vermont recovers from its second July 10 flood in two years, a Creemee Cast on the Vermont Daily Chronicle YouTube and Facebook page next Tuesday will examine the possible role of geoengineering in changing climate.
On July 16, live from Bean Studios in Northfield, Creemee Cast will be featuring Our Geoengineering Age researcher Ian Baldwin, Environmental historian Rob Williams, and the editor/publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle, Guy Page.
The goal is to specifically address concerns about Geoengineering. Beginning at 2 PM, the podcast will break down Geoengineering: the causes, the whys and the why nots.
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Ian Baldwin, Publisher and lifelong sky observer
Best known as the co-founder of Vermont publishing company Chelsea Green, Ian Baldwin has been a lifelong observer of the skies who interest in geoengineering was piqued after seeing strange cloud formations and long-lasting ‘contrails’ in the Vermont skies.
A lifelong birdwatcher and sky observer, in 2005 Ian started to notice peculiar cloud formations and long-lasting ‘contrails’ in Vermont (where he’d been living since 1982). Lacking the requisite technical background, he kept his observations more or less to himself until 2014, when a friend introduced him to Marvin Herndon, an Earth scientist who was concerned about long-lasting contrails clogging San Diego’s formerly clear-blue skies. Herndon and Baldwin began a close collaboration via Skype, helping each other formulate ideas and write about a subject officially termed a ‘conspiracy theory’—variously subjected to disinformation, silence, or ridicule in scientific, political, environmental, and corporate media circles.
Since 2015 Ian and Marvin, joined by Mark Whiteside in 2016, have published 40 scientific articles and non-scientific essays about geoengineering and its radical consequences for human and environmental health and Earth’s climate system.
Ian was born in New York City and grew up in then-rural Mt. Kisco, NY. He graduated from Columbia University with a BA in English in 1962 after taking a year off to travel around the world. After a tour of duty in the National Guard’s basic training at Fort Dix, NJ, he worked for Holt, Rinehart & Winston as editor of biological sciences in its college division. He then worked as director of publications for the Institute for World Order (now the Institute for World Policy) where he set up an international publishing program for its pioneering multinational social science research program, the World Order Models Project.
While studying for an MA in psychology (awarded 1980) in Goddard College’s off-campus graduate program, completing a year’s internship at Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Ian worked as a grant writer for the Environmental Defense Fund. In 1982 he and his wife Margo left New York City for Vermont, where in 1984 they founded Chelsea Green Publishing Company, specializing in books about conservation and the environment, organic agriculture and gardening, alternative energy and shelter, and the politics of living sustainably.
Williams interest in Geoengineering began in 2016
A lifetime lover of the outdoors, Dr. Rob Williams earned his BA in environmental history from Princeton University (1985) and his MA (1995) and PhD (2000) in environmental history from the University of New Mexico. Along with Ian Baldwin, he is the co-founder of the print journal Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence and now Vermont Independent, an online decentralist news journal devoted to championing political resistance and greater resilience for our Green Mountain communities. Long a watcher of the skies, Williams first became aware of geoengineering after reading and editing Ian Baldwin’s initial essay on the subject in 2016, and beginning his own systematic observations of the sky, as well as investigations into the clandestine military history of geoengineering as part of his work in researching “Our Geoengineering Age.”
In addition to writing and editing hundreds of feature stories at Vermont Commons/Independent since 2005 and publishing wide variety of book chapters on new digital media and communications, Williams has published four books – Most Likely To Secede (Vermont Independence Press, 2012), Media Education For A Digital Generation (Routledge, 2016), The Post (Truth) World: Fighting Fake News With A 21st Century Propaganda Model For Our Digital Age (Vermont Independence Press, 2019), and Media Mojo: Comm-On Power Tools and Strategic Storytelling Strategies For Our Digital Age (Vermont Independence Press, 2020). He is currently researching a book about the history of yaks.
Perhaps you know nothing at all about geoengineering. Here is a good place to start: OGA FAQ’s.