Creating a sustainable, economic, social and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.

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On Day 1 in Burlington, considered by many the heart of green business, John Erickson, professor of ecological economics at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, clearly touched a nerve.

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From 1998 to 2001, funds from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) were used to allot grants to villagers for ecological forest management and to compensate them for the loss of the right to exploit the forest.

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