by | Oct 12, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (0)
Leila Daw
Beech Leaf Disease (detail).
Leila Daw’s Beech Leaf Disease may be a work in progress, but in its assemblage it packs a powerful punch.
Continue reading ‘Institute Library Show Gets Into "Waste Management"’
by | Oct 11, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
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.
Continue reading ‘Visiting Puerto Rico After Hurricane Fiona: A Photo Essay’
by | Oct 10, 2022 8:43 am | Comments (5)
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.
by | Sep 28, 2022 1:44 pm | Comments (10)
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Climate activists outside City Hall in 2019.
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).
Continue reading ‘Ed Board Adopts "Climate Emergency" Resolution’
by | Sep 27, 2022 8:30 am | Comments (3)
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Mother Earth at Friday's climate march downtown.
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.
Continue reading ‘Climate Rally Frees Mother Earth From Fossil Fuels’
by | Sep 19, 2022 2:14 pm | Comments (10)
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Rendering of planned new drainage pipe (in blue).
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.
by | Sep 15, 2022 12:45 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Sep 12, 2022 4:24 pm | Comments (4)
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Great Horned Owl stars at Sunday's Migration Festival at Lighthouse Park.
Humans (above) ponder falcon (below).
by | Sep 12, 2022 1:51 pm | Comments (9)
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Peeling back the onion: A plan for a structural addition to this dome has sparked new questions about what's happening on a trash company's property.
Officials of the “Circle of Life” transfer station on Middletown Avenue showed neighbors plans for a new semi-circlular structure on their site — and heard back questions, claims and complaints about the broader conditions on their property.
by | Sep 9, 2022 11:14 am | Comments (1)
Michalsen.
Appreciation of nature. Acknowledgment of change. Grief at what’s being lost. But also, hope for the possibility of adaptation. These are the themes of a new set of climate concerts being organized by Dignity Music, a nonprofit helmed by musician and educator Ravenna Michalsen. The first one — slated for Saturday, Sept. 17 at Bethesda Lutheran Church — is intended to stir heart and mind together to action.
Continue reading ‘Climate Concert Series Knows Which Way The Wind Blows’
by | Sep 8, 2022 4:27 pm | Comments (7)
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Scott Papoosha, whom the town contracts to grind down Hamden's organic waste, with one of the site's massive wood chip piles.
Should Hamden quit requiring proof of residency for the right to drop junk at the town’s transfer station — and instead start charging all dumpers a fee?
Continue reading ‘Hamden Weighs Transfer Station Tipping Fees’
by | Sep 6, 2022 12:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Tuesday midday at Whitney and Trumbull.
(Updated) A driver was taken to the hospital Tuesday after driving through the heavy rainstorm — and then crashing into a house at Hobart Street and Whalley Avenue.
by | Sep 6, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (16)
CIRCA
Map of New Haven areas vulnerable to increased flooding.
Floods in City Point. Heat waves in tree-sparse, lot-heavy Newhallville. More storms that require evacuation. More periods of drought.
As climate change progresses, those conditions will become the new normal for New Haven, especially for the heat- and flood-vulnerable neighborhood of Fair Haven, reported officials tracking the trends.
An environmental transformation is already in motion. But, the officials said, the city can adapt its current infrastructure and prevent carbon emissions from making the problem worse.
Continue reading ‘Maps Show Climate Change's Neighborhood Impacts’
by | Sep 2, 2022 2:02 pm | Comments (28)
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Kai Addae (left) and Max Chaoulideer (right) at City Hall hearing.
The city’s planned overhaul of bike, pedestrian, and transit infrastructure is on a fast track to potential approval, as officials race to meet a mid-September deadline for a crucial grant.
by | Aug 27, 2022 8:58 pm | Comments (4)
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NHFD and DEEP crews attend to Saturday's fuel spill at Tweed.
Flights resumed at Tweed New Haven Saturday night after a daytime fuel spill closed the airport.
by | Aug 23, 2022 8:58 am | Comments (0)
Boys Scouts may be best known for their outdoor activities, but one of the greatest values they instill is citizenship.
by | Aug 10, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (7)
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Developers and officials break Beulah ground.
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Sustainable, affordable housing envisioned for 340 Dixwell.
Faith leaders, politicians, and investors shoveled a pile of ceremonial dirt, breaking ground on a soon-to-rise apartment complex that will be sustainable not only for the earth, but for low-income families.
by | Aug 9, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (3)
Kristen Schick, coastal cleanup intern for environmental nonprofit Save the Sound, collecting trash during Sunday morning's cleanup at Criscuolo Park.
Hub cap. Fish skull. Brand new bucket hat. Bike chain. An entire picnic setup. And so, so many metal bottle caps.
These were among the items included in 200 pounds of trash collected by volunteers at Criscuolo Park on Sunday morning.
Continue reading ‘Peace Waged, Park Butts & Hub Caps Cleared On Interfaith Day of Service’
by | Aug 8, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (5)
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Greenspace outside Mitchell Library.
Kimberly Wipfler Photos
URI Intern Justine Phillips-Gallucci at the tour's new Valley Street stop.
Dozens of New Haveners peeled off of yellow school buses and down a pathway toward the Botanical Garden of Healing, nestled in the shadow of West Rock on Valley Street. They were grandmothers, grad students, kindergarteners, actual gardeners, high school friend groups, and everyone in between, who braved the thick August heat for a tour of New Haven’s ever-growing roster of community greenspace sites, including this new one on Valley.
Continue reading ‘Bus Tour Highlights Community Greenspaces Citywide’
by | Aug 5, 2022 3:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Capital quest: Running Brook Farms founder Scott Papoosha shows off the transfer station's sweet peat vs. black gold (above), confronts pile of tub-ground wood (below).
As old logs and leaves sizzled in the 90-degree heat at the peak of Hamden’s transfer station, a fiery red milling machine moved between piles of debris, shooting sharp chips of wood high into the sky while churning the organic waste into something of value — the beginnings of top-quality compost Hamdenites refer to as “black gold.”
It took some legislative churn this week to make sure Hamden can pay the bill to produce that black gold, part of a fiscal-clean-up lawmaking grind aimed at stopping the town from bleeding red.
by | Aug 1, 2022 2:45 pm | Comments (10)
Olivia Gross Photo
Tom Lehtonen, Honda Smith, and Frank Cochran cut ribbon on new West River pedestrian bridge.
Anna Baker accompanied her grandmother Nan Bartow to walk for the first time across a new West River pedestrian bridge.
by | Jul 29, 2022 5:53 pm | Comments (8)
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Lizzette Flores and Liz Johnston, in paradise.
Homeowners trying to turn their expanses of traditional turf grass into gardens for vegetables or flowers might take some cues from Elizabeth (Liz) Johnston and Lizzette Flores of Perkins Street: Their small yard is full of flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees and vines, and is described by some friends as “Paradise.”
Continue reading ‘Liz & Lizzette Plant Perkins St. Paradise’
by | Jul 29, 2022 11:09 am | Comments (1)
Chapel Haven accessible hiking group summits Lake Wintergreen park's western ridge.
Almost 30 members of the Chapel Haven Schleifer Center hit the trails this week through accessible hikes for people with disabilities, enjoying the views and proving that hiking is for all.
by | Jul 29, 2022 9:29 am | Comments (7)
Entrance to the Eugene Fargeorge Preserve.
Courtesy Caroline Fargeorge
The late Eugene Fargeorge, at home.
Relatives and friends of Eugene B. Fargeorge are gathering to commemorate what would have been his 100th birthday Saturday, and one of their activities will be a clean-up of the Quinnipiac Meadows/Eugene B. Fargeorge Preserve, which was established by the New Haven Land Trust in 1987 and named in his honor.
Continue reading ‘100 Years Later, Eugene Fargeorge's Fair Haven Survives, & Thrives’
by | Jul 28, 2022 9:35 am | Comments (10)
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Attorney Stuart Margolis, right: We'll help planet, not kill grass.
As the planet baked and record temperatures were recorded nationwide, Hamden zoners delayed an apartment complex owner from installing solar panels — due to concerns about … shrubbery.