by | Jul 10, 2021 10:51 am | Comments (7)
The city’s Health Director has temporarily closed the beach at Lighthouse Point Park as the city investigates a potential storm-related sewage spill into the water.
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by | Jul 6, 2021 3:14 pm | Comments (7)
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David Burgess at work.
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David Burgess in the park Tuesday with citation from the Connecticut General Assembly.
David Burgess has worked five days a week since the days of the first George Bush Administration to clean debris out of New Haven’s waterways, sweep up trash in Edgewood Park, and plant shrubs around the city — and people noticed.
by | Jun 30, 2021 12:08 pm | Comments (7)
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Doreen Abubakar show LCI’s Evan Trachten her garden plan during Tuesday walk-through.
The next phase of the reinvention of a Newhallville crossroads came into view Tuesday during a tour of a vacant lot where Doreen Abubakar has seeded big plans.
by | Jun 30, 2021 10:02 am | Comments (3)
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Hamden movers and shakers hop on the electric-ride movement.
Kevin King pitches Mayor Curt Leng and Council’s Kathleen Schomaker on green transit during Tuesday journey
Twenty full-grown adults filed into an electric school bus without air conditioning on a 90 degree afternoon … with the hope that children will come on board in the future and help tackle the climate crisis.
by | Jun 28, 2021 4:52 pm | Comments (2)
Four libraries are doubling as cooling centers through Wednesday to offer respite from the current heat wave.
by | Jun 23, 2021 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
Carla Garzón, 19, pencils out her desk design.
Look out IKEA —these desks only take a minute to build and take apart.
And they’re compostable.
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by | Jun 23, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (26)
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Solar nexus: Workers install panels on Hotel Marcel roof. Below: the new landscape.
Green history is being made on Long Wharf.
by | Jun 22, 2021 9:40 am | Comments (1)
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The Huneebee Project — a regional beekeeping project maintains beehives in a community garden on Arthur Street in the Hill — was part of the experience tours connected to the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, which runs through June 27
For those who participated in the visit to the Huneebee Project Saturday and Sunday, it was a fascinating dive into bee biology, plant sex, and the big wonders that can come from small green spaces in a city.
by | Jun 21, 2021 8:46 am | Comments (1)
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Bobby Chambers collects plastics along the New Haven Harbor
”We’re trying to pick up the area and make it look nicer,” said Bobby Chambers, as he organized a clean-up Saturday on Long Wharf by New Haven Harbor .
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by | Jun 20, 2021 1:24 pm | Comments (4)
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Sondi Jackson, Marlene Graham at Elm City Freddy Fixer clean-up.
Some members of Saturday’s clean-up crew.
Without the usual fanfare of drums, drill teams, banners, and horses, a 30-strong Elm City Freddy Fixer contingent marched down Dixwell — armed with trash bags, shovels, and rakes to beautify the Avenue during a year in which the pandemic quashed the usual parade celebration.
“We can’t have a parade this year, but we can still have impact!” exclaimed one participant.
by | Jun 17, 2021 6:29 pm | Comments (9)
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Sign posted in Kensington Playground.
A state judge threw out half of a lawsuit about the future of Kensington Playground, after agreeing with the city that a Dwight resident and a neighborhood parks group do not have legal standing to sue the city for selling the public greenspace.
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by | Jun 15, 2021 1:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Community garden founder Addie Kimbrough.
Addie Kimbrough had a vision: A community garden in the vacant plot of land opposite her house where neighborhood kids and seniors could plant cabbage, collard greens, kale, and turnips.
With the help of volunteers, she made that vision sprout.
Continue reading ‘Carrots, Squash, Kale Move Into Vacant Lot’
by | Jun 14, 2021 8:56 am | Comments (0)
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My Everything Everything bagel with Greenwave kelp schmear.
Bagels, beer, and seaweed don’t sound like three things that commonly go hand in hand, but this past Friday night they melded together deliciously as part of Food of the Future with Greenwave and Olmo, a Food Experience presented by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
by | Jun 3, 2021 3:50 pm | Comments (14)
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Sign posted in Kensington Playground.
The first court hearing in a months-long dispute over the future of Kensington Playground raised a broader question: Can the city be accused of “taking” land that it already owns?
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by | Jun 2, 2021 4:29 pm | Comments (3)
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Pandemic brings out more walkers, cyclists to the Hamden stretch of the trail
If Congress is handing out earmarks — what about earmarking some to support the 80-mile stretch of land known as the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail?
Continue reading ‘Seeking Improvements, Canal Trail Boosters Are All Ear(mark)s’
by | Jun 2, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (1)
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Kiana Flores, 17: It would be ridiculous if no federal aid went to climate relief.
New Haven Board of Education members have a chance of getting an A, but they will have to work for it.
They face tough grading from students involved in the New Haven Climate Movement. The students promise to dole out As only if the board spends $6.6 million in federal aid on climate education and upgrades.
Continue reading ‘Youth Climate Activists Grade Ed Board On Pandemic Aid Spending’
by | Jun 2, 2021 8:28 am | Comments (1)
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The Westville Community Nursery School, located on Tour Avenue
As the children of Westville Community Nursery School nap to the sounds of a piano and play outside, those in charge of the school are working to improve the school with a new solar roof.
by | Jun 1, 2021 8:56 am | Comments (3)
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Senior Camp Wender weeds while junior Ahniya Holder waters.
Senior Johanyx Rodriguez: This color is making me happy.
High School in the Community (HSC) seniors returned to their school building after a year of remote school determined to leave a legacy.
For Camp Wender, that meant revitalizing an old school garden. For Johanyx Rodriguez, it meant creating a coral-colored senior lounge.
by | May 28, 2021 3:08 pm | Comments (5)
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Joanne Sciulli and Candace Jones Wright.
Joanne Sciulli, who has run New Haven’s Solar Youth program since founding it 22 years ago, is stepping aside to make way for new leaderhsip.
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by | May 21, 2021 11:03 am | Comments (8)
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Multiplying parakeet nests, visible from half a block away.
Neighbor Jason Bartlett: It’s a miracle on Sea Street.
City Point’s busiest crew of home renovators have won admiration of some neighbors, while alienating others worried about the safety of new aerial stick-built multifamily condos.
by | May 19, 2021 1:43 pm | Comments (9)
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NHCM organizer Kiana Flores (center).
The following letter was written by Co-Op High School senior Kiana Flores in collaboration with other New Haven Climate Movement organizers to Mayor Justin Elicker in advance of Thursday night’s public hearing on how to spend the city’s American Rescue Act federal aid.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Spend Federal Covid $ On Climate Projects’
by | May 10, 2021 9:05 am | Comments (12)
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Main power plant building still standing at former English Station.
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EAC Chair Laura Cahn (right): Cleanup needs to move faster.
English Station’s cleanup has stalled for over a year as the new owner refuses to sign off on a remediation plan — and as United Illuminating investigates just how contaminated its former power plant site still is.
by | May 7, 2021 11:11 am | Comments (10)
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Back in the earth instead of the trash: Anthony Perry shovels compost for use in Dixwell community garden.
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Alder Winter: Save money, planet.
Is it time for a third trash toter?That idea — for having the city give residents composting bins for organic trash like vegetable scraps to put out for their weekly curbside pick-ups, in addition to blue general-trash toters and blue recycling bins — was among ideas floated at a hearing on how to make the city cleaner and greener.
by | May 5, 2021 4:10 pm | Comments (8)
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Bottle deposit room at Beverage Boss.
Bottle deposit machines on every corner. Breezes free of incinerated trash particles. No litter in sight.
Climate activist Louis Rosado Burch painted this idyllic picture to Dwight neighbors as the outcome if the Connecticut General Assembly passes a new version of the bottle bill.
by | May 3, 2021 9:24 pm | Comments (16)
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Protesters round corner Monday from Kensington Playground.
A city-commissioned report concluded that converting Kensington Playground into affordable apartments will not harm the environment. A group of neighbors strongly disagreed and took to the streets Monday to say so.