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Nora Grace-Flood |
Dec 21, 2022 6:27 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Dec 9, 2022 6:42 pm
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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.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Dec 6, 2022 3:24 pm
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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.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 15, 2022 8:59 am
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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.
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.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Nov 1, 2022 2:10 pm
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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.
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.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 27, 2022 1:50 pm
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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.
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.
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Oct 11, 2022 1:00 pm
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The following photographs were taken by WNHH and La Voz radio show host Jose Candelario during a recent visit to Puerto Rico to see friends and family in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
All of the photos were taken on Sept. 28 and Sept. 29, less than two weeks after the storm first hit the island, and offer one view of life on the ground in Patillas, San Lorenzo, and Guavate as residents rebuilt and persevered after yet another devastating storm.
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Julia, a family friend of Candelario's, holding a loaf of pan de agua brought by Canderlario and his father outside of her home in the Marín Bajo neighborhood of Patillas. Two weeks after Hurricane Fiona hit, Julia's home was still without power and water. With a smile, she said she could live without water, but not without electricity and WiFi -- without which life is too boring.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 10, 2022 8:43 am
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Ginny Monk and John Moritz on the job at Saturday's cleanup.
An under-appreciated Fair Haven riverine jewel is looking shinier than ever thanks to an invigorated “friends” group and an increasingly effective partnership with the city and Yale University’s Urban Resource Initiative.
The Board of Education has accepted climate activists’ challenge to reduce the public schools system’s carbon footprint — by unanimously approving a new “climate emergency” resolution put forward by the New Haven Climate Movement (NHCM).
Climate activists broke the chains tying Mother Nature to a model power plant — as part of a youth-led protest designed to galvanize individuals, private organizations, and city government to take action now to save the planet from the ravages of climate change.
City Engineer Zinn: This will help mitigate harms of the "absolutely existential crisis" of climate change.
Expect less flooding on the often-flooded Union Avenue in the years ahead, thanks to a $25 million federal grant that will help the city construct a roughly 3,000-foot drainage pipe and tunnel from West Water Street to the Harbor.
Denise Murillo: "Passionate" about getting tenants sun power.
Solar panels galore planned for Mix Avenue.
Hamden zoners took a second look at allowing new solar panels on an apartment complex’s parking area — after balking over concerns that the green power would get in the way of green grass.
