Tag: Connecticut
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Mysterious anteater birth is ripe for an anteater-themed soap opera
Armani has some explaining to do. But she is, of course, an anteater, and they're notoriously tight-lipped.
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Rooftop Garden Feeds Cafe Customers Below
A cafe in Fairfield, Connecticut is growing produce on its roof. A permaculture expert makes some recommendations on how to do even more.
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What Were They Thinking? USGBC in Connecticut Gives Award to Nestle Waters' Headquarters
The bottled water company responsible for profound and pointless waste of water and fossil fuels is praised for low flush toilets and white roofs.
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Connecticut Fears Monsanto - Bill to Label GM Ingredients Dead Due to Lawsuit Worries
"The labeling provision was eliminated from the bill due to fears that it opened the state up to a lawsuit. The attorneys for the leadership & Governor's office felt the Constitutional rights of Monsanto gave them the power to successfully sue the state."
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Make a Date with Mom at Connecticut's Saybrook Point Inn & Spa
As mom and I swam in the saline pool, enjoyed a meal of local, sweet scallops, and blissed out with deep tissue massages, the inn's sustainable touches made everything taste and feel a little more like home.
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Connecticut Takes First Step Toward GMO Labeling Law
Connecticut legislative committee backs a labeling requirement for genetically modified foods.
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Adivasi Body: Delicious on Skin, Nose and Globe
The bath and body goodies hail from my hometown in Connecticut, handmade in small batches making it a pretty local treat for anyone in the NYC metro-area.
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DNA Trail Maps Cougar's Dead-End Journey Across South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Connecticut
DNA testing of cougar crap left along a 1,055-mile trail has established that a young male Puma walked all the way from South Dakota to New England in search of a mate. The poor cat's
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Mountain Lion Walked 1,800 Miles Before Being Hit by Car
Last month, a mountain lion was struck and killed by a car in Connecticut -- and new details have emerged suggesting the animal had an incredible, record-breaking journey before it met that sad end. Following the accident,
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East Coast Cap-and-Trade Program Created Jobs, Saved Energy For Connecticut
One to keep in you pocket whenever you're faced with someone trying to tell you than putting a price on carbon and promoting energy efficiency will hurt more than they help: Huffington Post reports on the benefits of the Regional Greenhouse Gas
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Jared Duval on Open Source Democracy (Podcast)
Can government be like a smartphone? An open platform, waiting for citizens to plug in their "apps" to its operating system? The rise of the millennial generation, along with the spread of the open source software movement, has opened up a whole new
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Teenager on a Mission to Save Endangered Parrots
While some teenagers spend their time mulling over which sports team to root for or pop-star to obsess over, others are up to more important things -- like working to save endangered species. Sure, it's a long way from the
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Colorful Lobster Trio a "1 in 900 Quintillion" Sight
Images courtesy of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk That's '9' followed by 20 zeroes The probability of a lobster being born with a blue shell is about 1 in a million. For a calico or pumpkin-orange colored lobster, the odds are in the excess of 1 in 30
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UConn Tests Demonstrate Great Potential of Hemp Biodiesel
Some regular TreeHugger readers (and commenters, you know who you are...) are no doubt exclaiming that they being saying the same thing for years, that hemp makes great biofuel--if only the Feds would get out of the way. Well, researchers
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Connecticut Could Be First State to Roll Back Its Renewable Energy Standard
A quick one to keep an eye on and get your best booing voice reader for: New York Times is highlighting a bill passing through Connecticut's legislature that would slash in half the state's current renewable energy goal of
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Yale Reduced Emissions 7% While Growing by 5.5% Since 2005
They've done more than just change out a few lightbulbs to meet this goal, and in fact this is only the beginning. Their ultimate goal is to reduce Yale University's greenhouse gas emissions to 43% below 2005 levels by the year 2020. Sure, you say, but
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New Haven, Connecticut to Get Waste Oil Biodiesel Plant
One way to get around many of the problems attributed to biofuel production (land use changes, effect on food prices, etc) is by using waste vegetable oil to produce biodiesel. Now it looks like New Haven, Connecticut will be
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Six US Baby Bottle Manfacturers Walk Away From Bisphenol-A (Polycarbonate) Designs
The major brands, Avent, Disney First Years, Gerber, Dr. Brown, Playtex and Evenflow have all have agreed to stop selling baby bottles manufactured from the monomer Bisphenol-A (BPA). This
