The four owners of The Riverhouse are trying to revive the planned land swap with the state for the property that wraps around the facility. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

The recent nationwide local foods movement has finally hit campus. From Earth Day to May Day, the recently formed WesFRESH student group has created a schedule of events to focus the community around food politics and raise awareness regarding the origins of the food offered on campus. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post
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Just in time for the start of growing season, farmers and consumers on the hunt for fresh, local fruits, vegetables, eggs and other farm products have found each other on a new online match-making service. The Shared Harvest Connecticut website, launched in March, is a fast-growing virtual farmers market that is helping to build a
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The Connecticut DEP has a place on their website where anyone can add their 2010 Earth Day events. Visit the link below. Earth Day Event Submittal Form. For the Connecticut DEP’s comprehensive list of Earth Day events, visit this link here. Tell them you read about it in CT Environmental Headlines. Blog this! Bookmark on
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The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Environmental Conservation Police have arrested a 49-year-old Windsor man on charges that he used chemicals to kill wildlife. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

  WASHINGTON (NNS) — The Navy celebrated Earth Day April 22 by showcasing a flight test of the “Green Hornet,” an F/A-18 Super Hornet multirole fighter jet powered by a biofuel blend. The test, conducted at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., drew hundreds of onlookers, including Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who has
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After years of waiting, Metro students moved into their own home, equipped with dizzying wall decor and some of the most cutting-edge technology in the school district. via $43M Metro Business Academy Opens Doors | New Haven Independent. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit
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EnerNOC, Inc., a provider of clean and intelligent energy management applications and services, announced that Cabot Creamery Cooperative was honored with a 2009 Energy Project Award by the Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with
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The bands at Saturday’s Earth Day Celebration at the Ansonia Nature Center were able to rock out thanks to solar power from a van from Solar Jam Productions. Now that’s keeping it green! Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about
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Connecticut College students took to the rooftops to demonstrate their passion for the environment this Earth Week. Members of the College’s Renewable Energy Club (REC), a student group dedicated to encouraging energy conservation, organized the “Rooftop Rally for Renewable Energy,” a benefit concert to raise money to install solar panels for New London’s Water Street
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The film “Fresh” presented by the American Farmland Trust and Edible Hudson Valley was recently hosted by the Filmworks Forum at the Moviehouse in Millerton, N.Y. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this
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Pat Sesto, the town’s director of environmental affairs and event co-chair, said from an environmental perspective, it’s important to properly dispose of unwanted medications. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

President Barack Obama vowed to make legislation on climate change one of his top goals. Now, with a compromise bill in danger of falling apart, business leaders and environmentalists are pressing him to deliver. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet
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NEW ORLEANS — Coast Guard officials said Monday afternoon that the oil spill near Louisiana was now covering more than 1,800 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico, and they have been unable to engage a mechanism that could shut off the well thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious
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New Haven, Conn. — The physiology of microbes living underground could determine the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from soils on a warmer Earth, according to a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. Researchers at UC Irvine, Colorado State University and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies have found that as
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell, U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd and other members of Congress from Connecticut and Massachusetts joined state and regional transportation leaders and Amtrak officials to outline a sweeping, shared vision for high-speed rail in the Northeast for U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who was visiting the state for a first-hand progress
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HARTFORD – The Connecticut River Valley could be among the first regions in the country to implement high-speed commuter rail. “This corridor has its act to together,” said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Raymond LaHood. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet
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The osprey population in New England continues to flourish. For example, 10 years ago a single osprey pair nested along the waters of Long Island Sound in a certain southern New England town. Five years ago, five or six nests existed in the town of Norwalk, Conn. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post
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NEW ORLEANS — Oil leaking from a sunken drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico oozed slowly toward the coast Monday, endangering hundreds of miles of marshes, barrier islands and white sand beaches in four states from Louisiana to Florida. There is an oil slick 60 miles in circumference and 30 miles off shore. via
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States with the lowest levels of biking and walking have higher traffic fatalities and chronic disease A report released in January by the Alliance for Biking & Walking shows that lack of investment in biking and walking could be contributing to higher traffic fatalities and chronic disease rates in the U.S. Bicycling and Walking in
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