The Yale School of Forestry is trying to get the land and the community talking once again. When asked what she values most about her 72-acre parcel of land in northern Connecticut, Daryl Basch gives a moment’s pause before answering. She appreciates the historical narrative of her land’s agricultural past, but she also appreciates how
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Within the thousands of miles of streams carved into Connecticut’s landscape lie a host of aquatic species – from fish to those undetectable by the naked eye. These bodies of water have provided us with means of transportation, livelihood and recreation for centuries. Our rivers make Connecticut unique and appealing. The Nature Conservancy’s Saugatuck River
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Shutting down the lobster season for a few months of the year would be the fairest way to reduce the lobster harvest in Long Island Sound by 10 percent, local lobstermen told state officials Thursday. “Either close it in June or close it in September and October, because that way it would affect everybody the
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Chase-Tallwood Science Math Technology Center, recognized for its state-of-the-art environmental design for schools, received Gold LEED Certification. Read more here: Gov. Malloy Attends Ceremony at Kingswood Oxford – Avon, CT Patch. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe
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The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s annual Green Buildings Open House (GBOH), the largest sustainable energy event in the Northeast, will take place Oct. 1. Rumsey Hall School in Washington Depot will host a stop on the tour, featuring the solar panel roof installation at the school’s Lufkin Rink between 9 and 11 a.m. Read more
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The Economic Analysis of a Program to Promote Clean Transportation Fuels in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Region released by the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, summarizes the results of an analysis of potential economic impacts of reducing carbon emissions from transportation fuels in the eleven state northeast and mid-Atlantic region. On a regional basis, the transportation sector accounts for about one-third of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Nearly 100 percent of the transportation fuel used in the region is imported from outside the eleven states. Click on this environmental headline to read more about this report and find out about an upcoming meeting in Hartford with the authors.

Editor’s Note: This piece is one in a series of replies to Frances Moore Lappé’s essay on the food movement today. In the forty years since the publication of Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet, a movement dedicated to the reform of the food system has taken root in America. Lappé’s groundbreaking book
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The 7th Annual Environmental Conference takes place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday Oct. 29, 2011 at the UConn School of Business in Hartford. The theme is “Reducing Toxins, Rebuilding Our Economy.”

Saturday, September 24 TRIP:  Fall Warbler Tour in Central Park, NYC 7:00 am-4:00 pm The perfect place for birders and photographers. Central Park is renowned for good views of good birds. Travel by van from Audubon Greenwich and spend the day in this birding hot spot.   The group will get lunch in the park
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Due to severe weather, the original planting date was cancelled and it is now taking place Saturday, Sept. 24. Friends of Edgewood Park of New Haven, Connecticut, a volunteer organization whose goals are to promote and organize activities in the park, support the park rangers’ work and raise awareness and funds for the park, is
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CitySeed and the Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation, Inc. present BOUNTIFUL A short play inspired by the stories of farmers and farm workers in New York’s Black Dirt Region Written and performed by Will MacAdams Featuring a vegetable hat by Gar Wang and a wheelbarrow mural by Gaby Ramirez At THE HILL — Connecticut mental
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This Saturday hundreds of citizens, educators, government officials, energy industry representatives, churches and farmers from around Connecticut will bike, walk and take the bus to the New Haven Green for “Moving Connecticut.” Click here to read more about this event.

The New Haven School District is collaborating with the New Haven Peace Commission and the New Haven Peace Council to celebrate International Day of Peace on Sept. 21, 2011. The art teachers have been working with students to create perhaps as many as 6,000 pinwheels with messages of peace written on them that will be
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September 16, 2011 – New Haven, CT – Three youth partnerships will host a community breakfast on Wednesday, September 21, from 8:30 to 12 noon, New Haven Job Corps, 455 Wintergreen Avenue, New Haven to focus energy and commitment on issues related to positive youth development and support services. The event will feature guest speakers,
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Biodiversity is of vital importance to us all. It is the basis for a wide range of ecosystem services on which we depend for food security, human health, clean air and water. Biodiversity contributes to local livelihoods and economic development and is essential in the fight against poverty. Yet despite its huge importance, the planet’s
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Baby boys and their balls, Pepsi grows a pair, Patagonia tells customers: buy less | OnEarth It’s a delicate subject: undescended testicles are now among the most common birth defects in the U.S. Chemicals in plastics and personal care products appear to be the culprit. Read more>> The soda and snack food giant is setting out
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has announced the release of $30 million in federal funding for the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield passenger rail corridor. In May 2011, the Federal Railroad Administration announced that Connecticut would receive $30 million of the $2 billion in federal funding that the state of Florida had declined.

Natural climate cycles seem to have a striking influence on war and peace around the equator.

Tropical countries face double the risk of armed conflict and civil war breaking out during warm, dry El Niño years than during the cooler La Niña phase of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), according to an analysis published in Nature.

Civil conflicts have been by far the most common form of organized political violence in recent decades.

1000 Friends of Connecticut, a non-profit organization that advocates statewide for Smart Growth, announced Nichole Strack, a recent Trinity College graduate and CTLCV employee, as its new Executive Director.

New greenhouse gas regulations for US power plants are unlikely to be proposed by the end of the month, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has admitted. The agency originally aimed at producing initial proposals by 30 September, but EPA administrator Lisa Jackson told news agency Reuters yesterday that the target will not
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