To be honest, the 18-acre sliver of rolling hills overlooking the Thames River does not exactly resemble the Hanging Gardens of Babylon … From my admittedly selfish perspective as a non-resident who doesn’t have to pay New London’s high property taxes, I’d like to see Riverside Park remain undeveloped, warts and all. People don’t seem
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East Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp. announced the opening of United Technologies Research Centre Ireland, a research and development hub that extends the global reach of its Connecticut corporate research center, to help accelerate technologies addressing renewable energy, energy efficiency, and integrated building systems. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook
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The Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation presented its annual Connecticut Preservation Awards on Wednesday, April 7, recognizing outstanding preservation projects and people who have made significant contributions to the preservation of Connecticut’s historic buildings and places. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with
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This month, the Willimantic Waste Paper Co. marks a year of using the Bollegraaf single-stream recycling system. The system, made in the Netherlands, can sort recyclables faster that previously possible, processing more than 25 tons of material an hour. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via
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New Hartford plans on celebrating this 40th anniversary of Earth Day by cleaning up parks and playscapes, performing trail maintenance on an open space preserve and eliminating invasive plants along the Farmington River and at other sites. Interested volunteers can go to the trust’s Web site, www.newhartfordlandtrust.org, to find out the new date for the
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TORRINGTON — It doesn’t look like much: A bunch of scrubby trees, swamps and a poorly maintained road that cuts between city-owned protected land and property owned by the estate of the late Joseph Leoni, a city businessman. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit
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Richard Hawley Jr. is among the ranks of the state’s little-known forestry industry, a sector that has come into the spotlight with a state decision to more than quadruple the forested state land that is off-limits to commercial logging. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via
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Oyster harvesting is a year-round operation, one that has faced a number of obstacles in New Haven over the last two centuries and has become a difficult industry to stay in. And the job recently got harder: The torrential rains in March, which led President Barack Obama to declare Friday that Connecticut is in a
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Sir Peter Crane may have spent only eight months as dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies so far, but four faculty members and seven students interviewed said he is leading the school in the right direction — by collaborating with faculty to make difficult financial decisions and by restructuring the master’s degree
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Becker + Becker has been negotiating with national supermarkets to move into 360 State’s ground floor since mid-September, but the developer is now leaning away from housing a large scale grocery chain in favor of a community-owned co-op. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit
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“Public officials need to think more about sex” — no, SECS: stable, enforced, clear and sufficient policies, said Daniel Gross, a partner from the private equity firm Hudson Clean Energy Partners, at a conference this weekend at Kroon Hall and Yale Law School. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share
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Bottled water — is it making a commodity out of a valuable public resource and harming human health and the environment, or is it a healthy alternative to sugary soft drinks, manufactured by a local company conscious of its carbon footprint? Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin
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Dear All: The legislative session ends on May 5. All session, we have seen a concerted effort, led primarily by the CT Business and Industry Association (CBIA), to reduce, roll back, and block environmental protections. There was even a bill (now defunct) to eliminate the DEP. The idea is that if we could just get
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From Matt Ranelli, a lawyer with Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Hartford: The legislative session ends in two weeks on May 5, 2010. The activity at the General Assembly has already sped up. The House and Senate are meeting regularly and committees are busy meeting on referred bills. Ranelli provides a legislative update on about a
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Last summer, home gardeners and farmers alike in southwestern Connecticut were beset with tomatoes that seemed to wilt on the vine. The plants were suffering from a fungus-like disease called late blight, the same pathogen that caused Ireland’s Great Potato Famine of 1845-52, according to the researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Blog this!
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For Milan Bull, senior director of science and conservation for the Connecticut Audubon Society, that people so close to a red shouldered hawk but not seeing it is a shame. “Sometimes we all forget to look up but when we do there’s a lot we’re not seeing,” he said. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg
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With all of the hoopla surrounding the 40th anniversary of Earth Day over now, and all of the passe platitudes about the progress we’ve made making our environment cleaner, greener, it’s time to put our thinking caps on and consider some simple ways of getting the tiniest, crappiest things that pile up in our trash:
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If Congress and the president fail to tackle global warming, can courts step in? Can federal judges allow people struggling with the losses of global warming to sue polluters directly? 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
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Approximately $12 billion in short and long-term “have-to-do” highway, bridge and public transit projects in Connecticut will not go forward because they lack funding, at least in the foreseeable future, state officials said. 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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BEACON FALLS — Volunteers pulled about 20 shopping carts from the Naugatuck River during a cleanup Saturday to prepare for the Naugatuck River Race. 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