The City of Bridgeport and Bridgeport Regional Business Council today celebrate the release of BGreen 2020, a Sustainability Plan that outlines the policies and actions to be implemented in the next decade to improve the quality of life, social equity, and economic competitiveness of the city while reducing carbon emissions and increasing the community’s resilience to the effects of climate change and increasing energy costs.
The program management team, led by Regional Plan Association, convened the efforts of more than a hundred stakeholders in a Community Advisory Committee and working groups to develop strategies to address brownfields and land use, pedestrian and transit access, renewable energy production, and environmental protection while supporting the growth of green jobs in the region.
Students who serve themselves a horseradish-crusted wild salmon sandwich at lunch in a residential college dining hall on Friday may not realize just how “wild” the dish is. A single delivery of 30,000 pounds of sustainably fished salmon from an Alaskan fishery back in the fall has provided all the salmon served in dining halls since then.
Environmental coalition calls for full-time position
UConn is considering a full-time sustainability coordinator on campus after Eco-Coalition representatives came up with the idea, according to Lisa Troyer, President Michael Hogan’s chief of staff.
Why Bringing Employees on Board Helps Sustainability Projects Succeed
WASHINGTON, DC — Getting employees engaged and educated on sustainability practices and a company’s specific green goals can save millions by boosting efficiency and making those goals more likely to succeed.
The Three Keys to a Successful Sustainability Program | GreenBiz.com
As Time Magazine recently reported, organizations of all kinds have begun making a gradual and powerful move toward sustainability as they recognize increasing convergences between economic and environmental interests. One increasingly-popular accelerator used by high-profile companies like Walmart is to engage employees in helping to achieve sustainability goals.
GREENFIELD, MA, February 19, 2010 –The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is pleased to announce its Spring 2010 Sustainability Workshop Series scheduled to run in March, April, May and June. A new element to the workshops this year is NESEA’s affiliation with the Affordable Comfort, Inc. (ACI) Conference. The two full-day workshops scheduled on March 3 in Atlantic City, NJ, will be held the day before the ACI New Jersey Home Performance Conference.
PLAINVILLE — That cup of coffee that you had this morning might have been processed right here in town. Sun Coffee Roasters, located in a non-descript office building on Northwest Drive, has quietly operated here since April 2009, when Keith Leminos started the coffee company with a social consciousness.
NEW HAVEN — Environmental lawyer and Romanian native Christine Eppstein Tang has been tapped to lead the city’s new Office of Sustainability. She was selected from a pool of nearly 200 applicants. Eppstein Tang most recently worked for a law firm as a corporate sustainability consultant. Before that, she worked for the Environmental Council of the States, helping to coordinate policy between state and federal environmental agencies.
New Haven can’t afford to bury its cars. Additionally, much of downtown New Haven is built on land that has a boggy undertow, so there are also physical limitations to how low you can go when you need to store cars. If you can’t hide them, these thousands and thousands of cars spawn an undeniable architectural presence: parking garages.
NEW HAVEN, CT – The City of New Haven hired its first Director for the new Office of Sustainability. Christine Eppstein Tang will assume her position in the City on Tuesday, February 16th. As Director, Tang will be responsible for launching the new department’s efforts aimed at making New Haven a more sustainable City in the interest of benefiting the environment and reducing costs in a number of areas.
Economy & Livelihood. We are in a time of Transition. Saturday, Feb. 13, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Common Ground High School, 358 Springside Ave., New Haven. “The Economy is going down, how can we keep up?” “How can we build a resilient local economy to foster sustainable livelihood?”
Have you ever had that niggling feeling that something is wrong with the economy? Transition Greater New Haven certainly has, and they want to explore how we could do things in a more people and nature-friendly way. TGNH would like to support a process of creating a more sustainable, equitable and resilient economy in the Greater New Haven area.
Will Walmart, not Whole Foods, save the small farm and make America healthy?
The program, which Walmart calls Heritage Agriculture, will encourage farms within a day’s drive of one of its warehouses to grow crops that now take days to arrive in trucks from states like Florida and California. In many cases the crops once flourished in the places where Walmart is encouraging their revival, but vanished because of Big Agriculture competition.
The Yale Athletics Department launched Bulldog Sustainability on Jan. 15 to publicize its ongoing efforts to reduce energy, water and paper use at all athletics facilities and events, said Bryant Blount, the department’s development and outreach assistant. The department hopes to make the campaign a sustainable model for other programs nationwide, he added.
Connecticut College alum, restauranteur and leading proponent of the sustainable food movement David Barber, will kick off the ConnCollege National Teach-In on sustainability Wed. Feb. 10 with a lecture at 4:30 p.m. in the Ernst Common Room. The lecture will be followed at 6 p.m. with dinner for 15 with David Barber, in the Hood Dining Room. Students will be asked to provide a couple of lines about their involvement in and connection to sustainability.
Membership in Sustainea has exceeded 850 members globally in the areas of biofuels, wind energy, solar energy, transmission, cleantech, and geothermal.
In the time bank world, everyone’s hour of service is equal: Members can trade crochet lessons for roof repair or a ride to the airport for a massage. SHARE Haven turned one year old this month, and membership has risen to more than 100 people.
Chairman Dan Holmes, Ted Kreinik, and Kathleen Quinn are now the only people on the former Clean Energy Task Force, which recently became the Sustainable Energy Commission.
Tuesday afternoon, however, promised change. “After tonight there will be four,” First Selectman Pat Llodra said several hours before the Board of Selectmen would appoint another member. Six open positions would then drop to five remaining seats.
What was once a 2,000 square-foot lawn in the northeast corner of the Yale Divinity School is now a sustainable garden.
The 35 volunteers at the Yale Divinity School Farm are harvesting the lettuce from their first season of growing, said the farm’s founder, Andrew Barnett DIV ’12. The project is part of the Divinity School’s efforts to include the environment in the study of theology, Divinity School Dean Harold Attridge said.
According to Attridge, “Stewardship of the earth is a fundamental religious obligation.”
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