by | Apr 26, 2024 1:54 pm | Comments (0)
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Class of 2024 tree planted by John Martinez student council.
John Martinez School eighth grader Roselyn Sampedro’s dream to stay rooted to her middle school forever came to fruition Friday as she helped plant a crabapple tree — in honor of the Class of 2024, and to celebrate Arbor Day.
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by | Apr 25, 2024 4:19 pm | Comments (0)
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Rock to Rock is hosting its 16th annual Earth Day Ride, with the help of food trucks, live music, and community partners.
by | Apr 24, 2024 8:40 am | Comments (7)
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Trekking towards Morris Creek.
About 30 people took a walk through Morris Cove, from Lighthouse Point Park to East Shore Park and back again, to see for themselves the route the city has proposed for the Shoreline Greenway Trail — and to see what other routes, or detours off the main route, might be possible.
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by | Apr 19, 2024 10:10 am | Comments (2)
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Daniel Wood, Jeremy Tremblay, Stephany Miller, Paul Bloom, Aaron Goode, and Millie Grenough on Thursday.
City peace commissioners and a crew of freshmen from Albertus Magnus College ventured out to a green patch off of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard with rakes, gloves, bags, and high hopes for adding a little color and joy to the world.
by | Apr 11, 2024 9:33 am | Comments (30)
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Yet-to-be-deployed city-owned Chevy Bolts lined up at 200 Wintergreen.
A shortage of electric car chargers has left 27 city-owned Chevy Bolts sitting unused in a parking lot — revealing how the process of electrifying public vehicles is more complicated than just buying a fleet of cleaner-energy cars.
by | Apr 4, 2024 4:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Jessica Salerno's student artwork, entitled "Oil Drilling."
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A student-led tour of Common Ground exhibit.
In one half of the poster, a bright blue, clear sky shines down on wildflowers and healthy animals surrounded by lush trees and a flowing stream. In the other half, the stream and the field are filled with litter. The world has caught fire, emitting deathly pollutants
That was an art piece by fifteen-year-old Aaliyah Jones and seven of her peers displayed at Common Ground High School — all of whom sought to share both their optimism and their fears around a climate change-impacted future.
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by | Apr 2, 2024 8:45 am | Comments (0)
Susan Hoffman Fishman
The Earth Is Breaking Beautifully.
Susan Hoffman Fishman’s painting seems at first to be an abstract, full of brilliant colors and bold lines. Soon, though, one can see how it’s derived from natural forms — but at what scale? It could be a cross-section of a tree or a landscape viewed from space. It turns out that it’s more the latter.
“As a result of climate change, the extraction of minerals and the damming of the Jordan River, which once provided a source of new water to the Dead Sea, over 8,000 sinkholes have developed along its shores. Seen from above via satellites and drones, the sinkholes are brilliant cobalt blue, lime green, white, yellow ochre and rust red,” the artist writes. “The Earth is Breaking Beautifully emphasizes the contrast between the horrifying destruction around the Dead Sea and the beauty of that destruction.”
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by | Mar 26, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (2)
Bear Path Green Team at hearing.
Food scraps: should they be turned into methane or composted? What about the state of Hamden’s trees? And what was the town doing generally to create more green space and move toward reducing its carbon emissions?
These questions and more were addressed on Saturday at Hamden’s Sustainability Symposium, held at Memorial Town Hall and organized by Laurie Sweet, at-large representative on Hamden’s Legislative Council and chair of the Environment and Conservation Committee.
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by | Mar 25, 2024 3:30 pm | Comments (33)
A red oak...
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... and an evergreen partner planted side by side Monday morning.
Tree planters trudged through the mud at Kimberly Field to position a red oak in the ground — and pledged to plant 1,000 new trees in New Haven a year, one sapling at a time.
by | Mar 25, 2024 12:58 pm | Comments (6)
Heat pumps and induction stoves will be making their way into New Haven homes for free this year, thanks to a $1 million government-to-government grant.
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by | Mar 25, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (8)
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Student composters Akira Torres, Zuhal Jamal, and Juliette Bolanos...
...and their life-saving food scrap stats.
11 New Haven Academy (NHA) students have helped to divert 3,285 pounds of food scraps from landfills so far this school year.
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by | Mar 11, 2024 10:26 am | Comments (31)
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All charged up with nowhere to go: Yet-to-be-deployed city-owned Chevy Bolts lined up outside 200 Wintergreen Ave.
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Climateers Max Teirstein, Steve Winter.
New Haven is starting small before going big — literally — as the city amps up its energy to go electric by 2030.
by | Mar 4, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (24)
A preliminary map of New Haven's upcoming addition to the Shoreline Greenway — connected to the Farmington Canal to the west and Shoreline Greenway to the East.
Northampton will soon be a hundred-mile hop, skip or jump away from Hammonasset State Park — once New Haven establishes itself as the link between the Farmington Canal Trail and Shoreline Greenway.
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by | Mar 1, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (4)
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Jonathón Savage.
Jonathón Savage, a Newhallville-raised urban gardener, has taken the helm of one of the city’s leading green organizations, Gather New Haven.
by | Feb 28, 2024 12:14 pm | Comments (2)
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CMT Chair Kim Harris: How does the neighborhood benefit?
How will local bids for geothermal and political power translate into a more empowered Newhallville community?
That question arose repeatedly at the latest gathering of the Newhallville Community Management Team.
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by | Feb 27, 2024 1:14 pm | Comments (21)
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Depictions of geothermal temperature control in both warm and cool months.
Yale is soon to test out a new way of heating and cooling campus buildings without burning fossil fuels: by drawing from the earth’s temperature 850 feet below “Science Hill.”
by | Feb 27, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (2)
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Goode leads group into woods.
Aaron Goode of the New Haven Bioregional Group smiled at the roughly 30 people assembled in the parking lot of New Haven Friends Meeting on Grand Avenue in Fair Haven Heights, ready to hike.
“Welcome to New Haven’s own Jurassic Park,” he said, explaining that the sign-in sheet people had signed also doubled as a “liability release” in case of dinosaur attack. He then corrected himself; if he were being more accurate, it would have to be called Upper Triassic Park, for the age of the rocks — and the fossils — that were found behind him in Quarry Park, a city park and site of a previous Bioregional hike last year.
by | Feb 22, 2024 12:56 pm | Comments (11)
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New Haven's electric garbage truck #2?
The fleet of trucks keeping New Haven clean could soon get a little bit cleaner itself, if a state grant supporting electric vehicles comes through.
by | Feb 13, 2024 4:12 pm | Comments (62)
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Tiny particles from Tweed planes like this one have raised concerns about Morris Cove air.
An air pollution researcher reported finding that unregulated “ultrafine” particles spike when Tweed airplanes take off and land — prompting neighbors to consider whether to adjust their daily routines to avoid air pollution, and the airport to double down on plans to expand their operations.
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by | Jan 31, 2024 2:53 pm | Comments (1)
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State Dept of Ed's Erik Clemons and Felicia Canty came to listen.
Dozens of Common Ground High School’s community members expressed support for the school’s state renewal while a handful said the renewal should be granted only if the school agrees to make administrative improvements.
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by | Jan 31, 2024 9:40 am | Comments (11)
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Davis and Burgess.
On Tuesday morning, Peter Davis, a volunteer river keeper with the city parks department, and fellow volunteer David Burgess were over the edge of the slope off Diamond Street in Beaver Hills, lugging a dilapidated couch out of the woods. Around them was a thin carpet of other discarded objects. Among the trash bags were a fan, a decaying rug, a mattress, a rusting wheelchair.
It was a lot of garbage. Davis and Burgess were taking it one piece at a time.
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by | Jan 29, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (42)
"Just look at this place": State Attorney General Tong, Mayor Elicker, State Sen. Looney, and DEEP Commissioner Dykes on Monday.
State officials stumbled across the littered grounds leading up to English Station to announce a lawsuit filed on the same grounds as other failed threats against United Illuminating — seeking to re-energize the company’s long-delayed remediation of the site.
by | Jan 29, 2024 10:03 am | Comments (9)
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Anthropology major Chris Kowalski (above) and Aaron Goode (below) de-vine by Beaver Brook.
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Clip high, clip low, create a window. Also don’t be a Tarzan and pull on those cut vines lest you disturb insect habitats or the birds high in the trees above.
Those were among the illuminating arboricultural tips offered for some serious de-vining of New Haven’s invasive-threatened native oaks, maples, sycamores, and hackberry trees growing on a beautiful but under-loved patch of city-owned forested greenspace.
by | Jan 26, 2024 11:30 am | Comments (17)
As close to actualization as they've gotten: A rough sketch of the future West River apartments.
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Marchand: Would love "another bite" at the environmental apple.
A long-delayed elderly housing development will now open its doors to families of all ages – if it ever does end up actually opening its doors.
by | Jan 19, 2024 8:43 am | Comments (5)
Hosts Adrian Leighton, Gary Dunning, Gerald Torres, and Marlyse Duguid (clockwise from upper left).
The city is seeking input on its vision for the next ten years, reimagines its parks system, and builds the possible effects of climate change into its efforts — all while acknowledging that we live on Native American land. Meanwhile, from another corner of environmental thinking, research, and practice, a set of ideas is emerging that, in time, could unify all of those strands into a single approach.
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‘Tribal Forest Talks Suggest
Ways To Adapt With Hope’
