A Win for Monsanto, a Loss for the World The Ag giant has shown uncanny resilience—which bodes poorly for the planet’s future. By Tom Laskawy The top execs at Monsanto Corp. must be running around HQ these days like director James Cameron post-Titanic, screaming “We’re king of the world!” It’s an understandable reaction. Between a
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Join Save the Sound, the Long Island Sound Study, and environmental grounds from around the Sound at Iona College on April 26 for the 2013 Long Island Sound Citizens Summit. This year’s topic, Super Storm Sandy and the “New Normal,” will focus on the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, and how it has left many
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CFPA Demonstration Garden Workshop Friday, April 19 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. CFPA Headquarters, Rockfall (Middlefield) All are invited to come learn about and consider joining a group of volunteers that will re-design, install, and manage an outdoor teaching environment at the CFPA headquarters. The focus will be low-maintenance, wildlife-oriented gardens that highlight the beauty of CT’s
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Mark Winne was the executive director of the Hartford Food System from 1979 to 2003. He currently consults and writes on food system issues in Santa Fe, N.M. The General Assembly is considering passage of “An Act Concerning the Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food.” This bill would not only make Connecticut the first state to
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Connecticut land conservationists were on Capitol Hill this week to promote the economic, social and natural impact of their work at the 2013 Land Trust Advocacy Day. For more on this story, visit: CT conservationists meet with Congress | HartfordBusiness.com.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy came to Sherwood Island State Park Monday to mark the kickoff of a centennial celebration of Connecticut’s State Parks. Surrounded by a host of local and state politicians and financial supporters from People’s United Bank, the governor shared a few memories of his own, when as a child he came with
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The Board of Selectmen (BOS) voted unanimously Monday night against adding Indian Fields Pond to town open space, stating that the limited potential public use was not enough to justify incurring the costs and liability of public ownership. For more on this story, visit: Selectmen Reject Indian Fields Pond for Open Space – Brookfield, CT
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A father tired of packing up his kids and bicycles to go mountain-biking says an old town-owned orchard should be made into a mountain bike course. Glen Prushinski made that suggestion last month to the town’s open space committee, which said the idea sounded good and is now exploring if it’s possible to do. For
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Dominion Energy will pay the government $3.4 million in fines and spend nearly $10 million on projects, the EPA and the US Justice Department said in a statement. Those projects are aimed at improving the environment and benefiting the public health in communities surrounding the Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Mass., and coal-fired power
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Climate change poses a threat to the entire planet, Israelis and Palestinians included. Awareness of that shared menace can increase support for peaceful coexistence, according to Tom Pyszczynski, professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. For more on this story, visit: Climate Change Awareness Promotes Peace : Discovery News.
Mary Anne Guitar, Redding Land Trust president, will be headed to Wesleyan University this Saturday to receive the Connecticut Land Conservation Council’s Excellence in Conservation Award. For more on this story, visit: Connecticut Land Conservation Council presents Mary Anne Guitar with award | The Redding PilotThe Redding Pilot.
The Graduate Student Assembly is considering offering students new transit options for the Westville, Edgewood and Dwight neighborhoods amidst concerns that Yale’s campus is inaccessible for some of its off-campus graduate students. The GSA created the Westville Ad Hoc Committee last October to assess the need for more transportation options and to examine which transit
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Though we should be combating climate change for environmental reasons, it will take a strong economic appeal to move forward. Carbon pricing is being used regionally and internationally and although it is not a cure-all for our economic woes, it offers both environmental stability and economic prosperity. For our environmental and economic health, Connecticut’s representatives
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An appeals court declined Wednesday to order the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to adopt rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions, saying the agency does not have a legal duty to protect the atmosphere for future generations. The Iowa Court of Appeals declined to extend Iowa’s public trust doctrine, which requires the state to protect lakes,
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There is often the supposition that job creation and environmental responsibility are mutually exclusive, but a growing effort in Connecticut may expose the problems with that prejudicial thought. The Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs is drawing together disparate groups who agree on two things: Connecticut needs more jobs and it needs to address climate
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THOMASTON — During a Board of Selectmen meeting on Tuesday, March 19, former selectman Maura Martin gave an update on the Thomaston Greenway progress. The Thomaston Greenway Committee has been meeting as part of the Council of Governments’ greater “green project,” the Naugatuck River Greenway. The plans for this Greenway will follow the Naugatuck River,
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A dispatch from CFE Renewable Energy Connecticut’s energy future is too important to make decisions hastily. Please join us in asking the state legislature to slow down and let the public process work rather than rushing major changes that could weaken our renewable energy standards. Connecticut’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) sets targets for how much of the state’s electricity must come
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Arthur Glowka, a longtime Stamford resident, avid fisherman and fierce advocate for Long Island Sound, died Monday at Stamford Hospital after a long illness. He was 82. For more on this story, visit: Longtime Long Island Sound advocate dies – StamfordAdvocate.
