by | Feb 9, 2023 2:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Mid-morning at the oasis: Dominique and Bamboo Thursday in Rainbow Park.
Dominique decided to turn right a block sooner than usual on her way home. She walked by a rainbow and entered a new world.
Continue reading ‘During Dwight Detour, Dominique Discovers Eden’
by | Feb 6, 2023 5:04 pm | Comments (13)
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Drew Ramsey and Javon Hailey clear Kimberly Park's invasive vines.
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Dayton Death Row.
Five towering trees were sentenced to death on a crowded west side street. Meanwhile, across town, stewards whacked at vines in a reclaimed park to enable other trees to survive and thrive.
Continue reading ‘Street Trees Condemned; Park Trees Preserved’
by | Feb 2, 2023 4:10 pm | Comments (1)
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Schandra Madha on the hot seat at Common Ground.
One of New Haven’s coolest places was also one of its hottest Thursday morning.
Continue reading ‘Word On Springside: Hot Pile, Cooler Planet’
by | Jan 23, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (12)
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In Hamden, tree branches turn into mulch with the help of a tub grinder. Could New Haven do the same?
Leaves and branches that fall from New Haven trees might someday be revived as municipally managed mulch and top soil, thanks to a Westville alder’s new legislative proposal.
by | Jan 16, 2023 10:37 am | Comments (2)
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Student council prez Julieta Diaz leads Martinez school meeting.
John S. Martinez School eighth grader Julieta Diaz and her fellow student council classmates had a decision to make: Should they donate the proceeds of a middle school recycling drive to a local homeless shelter, or should they throw their financial support to the city’s animal shelter instead?
by | Jan 12, 2023 12:42 pm | Comments (18)
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The view from the soon-to-be-replaced Mid Bridge.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn at Tuesday’s Zoom meeting.
A dance venue. A community garden. A set of lights for the skate park. A … West Rock-bound gondola?
Those were a few of the ideas that made it onto a community-built wish list for $800,000 worth of improvements for Edgewood Park, as put together by roughly 100 parkgoers.
by | Jan 6, 2023 11:09 am | Comments (3)
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Environmental advocate Marjorie Shansky: “I don’t know when the last time New Haven amended their inland wetland regulations was. I don’t even know if it complies with the law.”
Map shows delineation of wetlands from standard soil by Wilbur Cross track, which has been approved for conversion into synthetic turf.
Inland wetlands advocates are urging city decision-makers to beef up their environmental education, training and expertise in order to help protect New Haven’s endangered ecosystems.
Continue reading ‘Enviros Chart Path To Wetlands Protections’
by | Dec 23, 2022 8:57 am | Comments (12)
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The following op-ed was written by Patricia Wallace, who is a resident of the Dwight neighborhood and President of the Friends of Kensington Playground. The organization has an ongoing lawsuit against the city over the sale of a Dwight public greenspace to an affordable housing developer.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Build Affordable Housing Without Bulldozing Playground’
by | Dec 22, 2022 1:48 pm | Comments (4)
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Mayor Elicker and emergency director Rick Fontana Thursday: "These are dangerous conditions."
Watch out for dangerously cold temperatures, heavy rains, fast winds, and high tides this weekend.
And whatever you do, don’t drive through flooded streets.
Continue reading ‘City Preps For Freezing Temps, Flooded Streets’
by | Dec 21, 2022 6:27 pm | Comments (9)
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Wilbur Cross's athletic complex: Ready for plastic repairs.
Synthetic turf prevailed over goose poop-laden grass — as high school athletes won not a football or soccer game but a civic debate against environmental advocates concerning the harms and benefits of replacing Wilbur Cross’s chronically muddy sports area with a field of plastic fibers.
Continue reading ‘Turf Tops Grass After Field Repair Debate’
by | Dec 20, 2022 11:46 am | Comments (14)
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Founding Director Dings: "Addressing climate change is a moral imperative and an economic opportunity.”
A town-gown group is planning to launch a climate-focused tech start-up center in early 2023 in downtown New Haven.
by | Dec 20, 2022 9:31 am | Comments (1)
An urban farming and ecology-centered local charter school has grown its outdoor classrooms on the far west side of town thanks to a team of environmental educators funded by a two-year, $100,000 federal grant.
by | Dec 13, 2022 4:30 pm | Comments (11)
Plan for the new Dixwell Plaza.
Over $4 million is coming to the city to help builders clean separate polluted properties in order to construct new homes and other public buildings.
Continue reading ‘Millions Flow To City For Building-Site Clean-Ups’
by | Dec 12, 2022 12:54 pm | Comments (24)
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Executive parking space: Steve Winter on day one with his work wheels.
New Haven’s new climate czar woke up at 4 a.m. Monday thinking about the planet — then pedaled two wheels through icy slush to help his city save it and create jobs in the process.
by | Dec 12, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (3)
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Climate movement chalk art outside City Hall.
Climate change, human rights, holiday treats, and sidewalk art intersected outside City Hall as environmental activists sought to heat up the public conversation around a warming planet and what to do about it.
Continue reading ‘"Chalk 'N Choc" Brings Climate Talk To City Hall’
by | Dec 9, 2022 6:42 pm | Comments (23)
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Now ex-alder, future city climate director Steve Winter.
Steve Winter is stepping down as Prospect Hill/Newhallville/Dixwell alder — and stepping up into the role of City Hall’s first-ever executive director of climate and sustainability.
Continue reading ‘Steve Winter Resigns As Alder, Tapped As City Climate Director’
by | Dec 6, 2022 3:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Brent Peterkin.
Two years after stepping into the role of executive director at Gather New Haven, Brent Peterkin has resigned — leaving the organization to continue his work of diversifying and growing local environmental engagement and preservation.
by | Nov 18, 2022 12:40 pm | Comments (3)
(Opinion) It looks likely that CT Transit will extend free bus service for another six months. It looks like a new luxury hotel will generate all its own energy, from the sun.
How long will all that last?
by | Nov 15, 2022 8:59 am | Comments (6)
Trekking with the New Haven Bioregional Group through Edgewood Park.
Sunday marked the first cold morning of the year, with rain, and at the Edgewood Farmer’s Market, people hurried from stall to stall. But another group of people gathered at the gazebo and soon headed farther into the park, unharried by the weather. The occasion was a walk of the New Haven Bioregional Group, into a part of the city where trees and moving water had something to do with preparing the Elm City, and the region, for the future.
Continue reading ‘Park Volunteers Manage The Bends In The River’
by | Nov 7, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (21)
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Wanda Perez: Buses are a lifeline to doctors, food pantries, family.
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Fares, be gone!
As she juggles the cost of everything from utilities to laundry, the past seven months of fare-free buses have given Wanda Perez one less expense to worry about.
“That helps me go to my doctors’ appointments, to see my loved ones,” Perez told a room full of bus riders, transit advocates, and alders — as they collectively pushed for making the state’s temporary bus fare holiday permanent.
by | Nov 4, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (2)
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Last glimpse of an autumn wonder.
You stumped me, you sly and courageous one.
by | Nov 1, 2022 2:10 pm | Comments (5)
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Riley and Luz Martinez at Saturday's "Climathon."
Luz Martinez is looking forward to biking more and driving less in her new home neighborhood of Fair Haven — even as her eyes are now open to the area’s vulnerability to flooding.
Those were just one Fair Havener’s takeaways from a half-day-long, climate change-focused workshop held at John S. Martinez School.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven "Climathon" Shines A Light On Flooding Risks’
by | Oct 28, 2022 3:17 pm | Comments (9)
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Before he moves on from his city job next week, Martin Torresquintero is hustling to finish one last bridge to connect New Haveners to an overlooked nature wonderland.
by | Oct 27, 2022 1:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Rendering of expanded Tweed airport.
Tweed airport won permission to build 203 new “temporary” parking spaces in anticipation of heightened holiday travel demand at the current New Haven terminal — and in advance of the planned construction of a new larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
by | Oct 18, 2022 5:20 pm | Comments (32)
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Tweed Director Scanlon: "A week away from submitting a draft."
Tweed’s airport authority is roughly a week away from submitting to the federal government a draft environmental assessment report — bringing the Morris Cove airport that much closer to realizing its plan to extend the runway and build a new, larger terminal on the East Haven side of the property.
Continue reading ‘Tweed Environmental Assessment Almost Done’