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Parks Head Honored

by Staff | Dec 5, 2013 1:07 pm | Comments (8)

Christy Hass is an “outstanding urban forestry professional.”

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Bioswale Ahead!

by Gilad Edelman | Nov 26, 2013 11:28 am | Comments (2)

If you take a stroll through East Rock next year and stop to admire some curbside tree plantings, you may be looking at more than mere flora.You may be looking at infrastructure.

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“Healthy City” Pitch Launched

by Cora Lewis | Nov 14, 2013 1:32 pm | Comments (1)

A new coalition determined to tackle climate change gathered in a Crown Street art gallery—not to hide out, but to reach out.

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Fear Climate Change—Or Embrace Its Beauty

by Diana Li | Nov 12, 2013 12:02 pm | Comments (1)

One set of pictures depicts the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: a completely ruined tennis court, a street ravaged by construction, and the exposed foundation of a house after the storm took its toll. Beside it, a floor-to-ceiling painting offers a different take on storms: beautiful landscapes and clouds and intricate patterns.

These works are in a new exhibit, Futurespace, at Artspace.

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Pond Lily Prepared For Next Superstorm

by Allan Appel | Nov 7, 2013 4:55 pm | Comments (2)

A relentless six-foot slurry wall of mud and water pouring into Westville village?

It’s possible, even probable, if the Pond Lilly Dam breaches in the next super storm.

Local officials now have $661,500 to spend to make sure that post-Sandy environmental prophesy doesn’t come true for the 1790-era dam at Pond Lily Avenue near the New Haven-Woodbridge border.

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It Is Easy Being Green, After All

by Melissa Bailey | Oct 31, 2013 3:15 pm | Comments (5)

Standing before the backdrop of a fuel-cell-powered downtown tower, mayoral candidate Toni Harp vowed to continue the city’s emerging green transportation agenda—and vowed to make Long Wharf the next frontier.

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Days Of Caring Make A Mark

by Staff | Oct 24, 2013 11:14 am

Cara Rosner sent in the following write-up about the United Way’s Days of Caring volunteer drive.

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A Greenhouse Rises In Newhallville

by Thomas MacMillan | Oct 16, 2013 3:40 pm | Comments (5)

For veteran gardeners like Alonzo Bryan, a new neighborhood greenhouse means not just carrots and collards growing through the winter. It means a growing sense of community.

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Common Ground Broken

by Kendra Baker | Oct 15, 2013 5:23 pm | Comments (3)

Common Ground High School took a $10 million step forward Tuesday—while vowing to maintain its sense of family.

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120 Bags Of Garbage Is Just The Beginning

by Staff | Sep 26, 2013 9:42 am | Comments (4)

Friends of Edgewood Park’s Jon Miller sent in the following write-up about a clean-up in Edgewood Park:

In small amounts litter is a nuisance, but when it accumulates into the kind of massive eyesore that recently developed in Edgewood Park, it becomes a serious threat. The mounds of garbage along Chapel Street had become a blight that was turning people away from the park. And fewer people means more problems, which means still fewer people—a vicious cycle.

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