Kathryn Blume

About Kathryn Blume

Kathryn Blume is a great original - the funniest, grittiest climate activist we’ve got, a living argument for art and humor and sexy straightforwardness in the fight to save the planet.” - Bill McKibben Kathryn Blume is a saucy champion of climate communications. A gifted and inspiring public speaker, she\'s published a collection of essays and speeches called \"Dancing to the Beat of the Great Green Heart,\" and contributed to the books \"Beautiful Trouble,\"\"MoveOn.org\'s 50 Ways To Love Your Country,\"\"Code Pink\'s Stop the Next War Now,\"\"Outcry - American Voices of Conscience Post 9/11,\" and \"365 Ways to Change the World.\" She has had essays and articles published in the Burlington Free Press, Seven Days, Yes Magazine, and numerous blogs and websites and serves as a commentator on Vermont Public Radio. Kathryn co-founded the nationally-recognized community climate and sustainability game Vermontivate, the Lysistrata Project - the first worldwide theatrical event for peace, and founded Earth on the Air, a nationally-syndicated, award-winning environmental and social justice radio program. She co-founded New Paradigms Personal Coaching Services, and has worked for organizations such as the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and Forest Watch. Kathryn has served on the boards of 350Vermont (Board Chair 20••••16), The Willowell Foundation, Lewis Creek Association, Vermont Alliance of Conservation Voters, and Transition Town Charlotte. She received her BA from Yale with a self-designed degree in environmental studies and theater and has taught yoga, stress-reduction, public speaking, positive-visioning, and Green Up Your Life workshops in venues across the country. BIG GOAL To help ignite the global revolution in consciousness necessary for humanity to repair and restore the planet, and create a just and healthy environment for all its inhabitants. Specialties: Speaker, writer, political organizer, teacher. Also, I can start a fire with one match.

Experience

1. Managing Director

   Hyperbaric Vermont

   Aug 2022 — Present · South Burlington, VT, US

   Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the medical use of oxygen at higher than atmospheric pressure. A powerful anti-inflammatory, it promotes tissue healing, normalizes immune function and is a potent antimicrobial. It stimulates the growth of new tissue, stem cells, nerves and blood vessels. HBOT offers hope to people with many conditions for which standard medical treatment has little to offer. HBOT is a safe and effective treatment used for Lyme, Crohn’s and celiac disease, arthritis, stroke, dementia, Alzheimer’s, radiation damage, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, diabetic ulcers and non-healing wounds, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis and other neural and inflammatory conditions as well as long-haul COVID symptoms.

Education

• Vermont State University

  Master of Science - MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling

• Yale University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Dramaturgy

  1986 — 1990