Plowing Ahead: Farmland Preservation in 2010 & Beyond, Saturday, March 27, 2010, at Kroon Hall, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven. Farmers, conservationists, town officials, anti-hunger advocates, locavores, chefs, and all supporters of farmland preservation in Connecticut, join the Working Lands Alliance for its tenth anniversary to examine the past decade of
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Monday – April 05, 2010, 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Location: TBA 3rd Annual Global Environmental Sustainability Symposium: A Green Economy for a Sustainable Future The transition to a greener economy by redefining the American economy from one of development towards one of sustainable developement. For more information, including schedule and registration (required only for
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SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. – BMW Forschung und Technik (Research and Technology) today displayed a new hybrid electric vehicle that uses a UTC Power fuel cell system. The vehicle was unveiled at the 25th anniversary BMW ZT celebration in Munich, Germany. UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp., has been working with BMW since 1999 to develop
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One option said to be available to engineers at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant for dealing with the tritium contamination is to extract the hundreds of thousands of gallons of tritium-contaminated groundwater at the site, filter out the organic matter, and then flush the tritium-tainted water back into the Connecticut River. Just the mention of
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The tanning Bill (Bill 263) had a hearing on March 1st,  but today when the committee took up the Bills to vote on – the Tanning Bill never even made it onto the Public Health Committee Agenda for a committee vote.  The Bill had asked for warnings to be posted on tanning salons about the
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EAST HADDAM – The prospect of a cell tower being placed near a park or nature preserve often leads to a predictable coalition of opponents made up of residents, local officials and environmental groups. via Small Group In East Haddam Fighting Proposed Cell Towers – Courant.com. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend
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Kleen Energy Systems LLC. has obtained permits to finish building the gas-fired power plant in Middletown where a fatal accident interrupted work in February. via Permits issued to finish building Middletown power plant – Connecticut Post. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with
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It’s hard to understand liberals’ fascination with “green jobs,” however they define them. In January, President Obama announced $2.3 billion in “stimulus” tax credits to create 17,000 green jobs (solar, wind, etc.) That’s $135,294 each for jobs that pay an average of $45,000 a year in industries that mostly wouldn’t exist without billions in annual
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KENT — The town has a new facility for residents to deposit their recyclables but the percentage of recycling has not increased much in the months since the Transfer Station opened. via Kent concerned about low rate of recycling | The Republican-American. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on
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WEST HARTFORD – The 63-foot poster, mostly a sea of 5,000 blue squares, stretches wall-to-wall in the Sedgwick Middle School cafeteria. Each individually cut and glued square equals several hundred human deaths. And in case a kid wants to ignore the squares while snacking on lunch, the poster further spells out the gravity in big,
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The wood ducks’ call echoes reproachfully as they fly off. Soon the spring green of the flood plain trees, arrowroot, wild rice and poison ivy will soften the brutal reality of our “wasteful, synthetic, toxic materialism.” Jim Woodworth, stewardship chairman of the Great Meadows Conservation Trust, lives in Wethersfield. via Fighting The Endless Tide Of
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The Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority CRRA is offering bulk paper shredding and paper recycling at its ten electronics collection events scheduled for this spring. The CRRA also is offering document destruction services at its seven residential electronics collections scheduled for this fall. via CRRA Including Document Destruction at its Spring collections program – Recycling Today
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Preston – Voters approved a resolution Tuesday to appropriate $259,685 to pay for the cleanup of the oil spill at Preston Veterans Memorial School last November. via Preston voters agree to pay for oil spill cleanup at school | The Day. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin
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The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced that the prohibition on the taking of alewives and blueback herring from most inland and marine waters of the State of Connecticut has been extended for another year. This action was initially taken in April of 2002, and then extended each successive year. The current action by
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FuelCell Energy a Danbury, Connecticut-based manufacturer of high efficiency ultra-clean power plants using renewable fuels, announced the passage of a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) by the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, requiring 4 percent clean energy generation by 2015 and 10 percent by 2022. via FuelCell Energy Announces Passage of Renewable Portfolio Standard
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More than 200 farmers, conservationists, anti-hunger advocates, students, locavores, and others interested in farmland preservation from across Connecticut will gather for a conference hosted by the Working Lands Alliance (WLA) coalition to consider ways to improve farmland access, grow community farms and link farmland protection with economic development, smart growth and public health goals. The
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PLAINVILLE — In 1946, two railroad lines served Plainville. The Highland ran east and west from Hartford to Waterbury, while the Canal Line ran north and south from New Haven to Northampton, Mass. They met at a crossroads called The Diamond, near the passenger and freight stations. via Plainville’s tale of two railroads – The
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GRANBY — The Granby Board of Selectmen has forwarded a recommendation to the Board of Finance to purchase the development rights for the Bushy Hill Orchard. The town is working with the state Department of Agriculture’s Farmland Preservation Program to purchase the development rights for the property and prevent the land from being used for
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Parking lots for commuter and resident students will be changed next year if a plan proposed by the Parking Advisory Committee passes. The plan would designate parking lots currently reserved for on-campus students – those that are more central to campus – for commuters while making current commuter lots – those located more on the
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Is the tautog fishery crashing? Absolutely. There are commercial blackfish pots in Long island Sound most, if not all, unregulated or tagged. We don’t even know how many there are, and the powers to be don’t seem to care. via Without regulation, blackfish will vanish – Norwich Bulletin. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this
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