There's an eco-friendly celebration going on in Montpelier and across central Vermont, a weeklong educational forum and festival to bring the sustainable living community together to envision, build and maintain a better future.

QuarryWorks opened an effervescent, colorful and downright hilarious production of "Kiss Me Kate," Cole Porter's musical take on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," Thursday at the Adamant Music School's Phillips Experimental Theater.

When China pollutes, the world sneezes. When a leading environmental activist from the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases ponders solutions, a roomful of green mediators take notes.

It's a predominately local music weekend around these parts, with the majority of artists playing in and around the capital city this weekend hailing from our neck of the woods.