Environmental Headlines spends a lot of time culling environmental news, but we also spend a lot of time culling environmental events on our calendar. Some pay to be on the calendar because they know it’s one of the most visited pages on the website. Each year we also post thousands of links to thousands of
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Connecticut Audubon Society has named conservationist and author Tom Andersen as its director of communications and community outreach. Andersen is the author of This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound, published by Yale University Press. Andersen spent 10 years at Westchester Land Trust as director of communications and special projects and as acting executive director. Connecticut Audubon operates five centers — Pomfret, Glastonbury, Milford, Fairfield and Birdcraft Museum — and owns 19 sanctuaries covering 2,600 acres.

Movie & Potluck Saturday, December 17   Directed by Marshall Curry Co-directed by Sam Cullman In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front– a group the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.” IF A TREE FALLS: A
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First-term state Rep. Philip Miller, D-Essex, a vocal but unsuccessful opponent of the controversial “Haddam land swap” bill approved this year by the General Assembly, was named vice-chairman of the legislative environment committee Wednesday.

The town council has unanimously approved entering into a 15-year contract with the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority. For more on this story, visit: Glastonbury: Town renews contract with CRRA – Courant.com. SIMSBURY — The Simsbury Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Dec. 12 to approve a new five-year contract with the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority. For
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If you are a beginning birder, you can join a group that includes an experienced birdwatcher. If your home is within the boundaries of a Count Circle, then you can stay home and report the birds that visit your feeder once you have arranged to do so with the Count Compiler! Naturally, fun.

The same answers arose Wednesday to some of the same questions that have been asked for the past four decades on how Norwich can revitalize downtown and reverse decades of decline. But Norwich has the tools and the assets to do it, Steven G. Cecil, principal of the planning consulting firm The Cecil Group of
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NRG Energy, owner of the Montville Station power plant, is pushing ahead with its 4-year-old proposal to partly convert the plant from natural gas and oil to boilers powered by bio-mass fuel, the Hartford Courant reports. Click on this Environmental Headline for more on this story.

… Just because Washington has no plan, money, or muscle to upgrade transportation doesn’t mean that everyone else is paralyzed. Coach USA, the U.S. subsidiary of a British transportation company, is sending out new long-distance bus routes like kudzu. So are many other lines. Intercity fares of $25 have become standard, and not just on
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NEW HAVEN — The city this week finished rolling out an ambitious recycling initiative that aims to get residents to recycle more than they throw away. The old, 96-gallon, blue bins are now used for recyclables instead of trash, and residents have received smaller, brown bins for trash. The new system with bigger bins for
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Members of the Samburu people in Kenya have been abused, beaten and raped by police after the land they lived on for two decades was sold to The Nature Conservancy and the African Wildlife Foundation, a rights group and community leader have alleged.

WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — This year, residents of Midland, Texas sued Dow Chemical for dangerous levels of hexavalent chromium in their drinking water. Chromium-6 is a cancer-causing chemical made infamous by Julia Roberts’ film, “Erin Brockovich.” There are currently no drinking water standards for chromium-6, and the chemical industry is delaying a new U.S. Environmental
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Catch up on what happened at the climate talked in Durban, South Africa, by following this link to the Guardian’s complete coverage. 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

Recipients included the Salem Land Trust, which was recognized for its purchase of about 20 acres of open space and watershed land on Big Brook, at the headwaters of the Eightmile River; and Eddie Oquendo, whose company, American Green Boy, in East Lyme, recycles used home cooking oil. For information on the GreenCircle program, visit:
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The program provides grants between $10,000 and $50,000 for municipalities interested in pursuing equitable transit-oriented development. The grants can be used for planning and public outreach in southwestern Connecticut (Fairfield and New Haven Counties), northern New Jersey (the NJTPA region), Long Island, Westchester County, and New York City. For more on this story, visit: Reminder:
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Stephen E. Scace, a former leader at Millstone Power Station, is returning here from the Kewaunee reactor in Carlton, Wis., to replace A.J. “Skip” Jordan as Millstone site vice president. Jordan, Millstone’s site vice president, likewise will replace Scace at the Wisconsin plant, which is up for sale. The changes are effective Jan. 1. For
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The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded more than $8 million to hydroelectric power plant projects in Connecticut, Oregon, Utah, and Vermont under the Rural Energy for America Program, including $275,000 to Putnam Greenpower’s project in Connecticut.

Connecticut’s two largest electric utilities have filed plans with state utility regulators for a program in which homes or businesses that use solar power or fuel cells would be eligible for quarterly energy credit payments. The New Haven Register reports. Click on the Environmental Headline for more of this story.

Canada has been condemned at home and abroad as “irresponsible” and “reckless” for pulling out of the Kyoto climate treaty, just a day after committing to a future legally binding deal at a major UN climate summit. “I regret Canada’s withdrawal and am surprised over its timing,” said the UN climate chief Christiana Figueres. “Canada
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The town has the opportunity to switch from its current municipal watse contractor, the well-known Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, and jump to a new option with a rival. The town council is slated to discuss the matter on Tuesday night, when it also has the option to grant a bid waiver for the administration to
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