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READER SUBMITTED: Common Grounds Rotary Garden Of Enfield
EnfieldCommon Grounds Rotary Garden of Enfield has officially begun its eighth year. The season kicked off on Earth Day weekend with an open event to get the garden ready for growing. A big thank you is extended to all the volunteers who came out to help on...Tags: Human Interest
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READER SUBMITTED: Earth Day Campaign Generates $1,100 For Connecticut Forest And Park Association
StatewideThere was a lot to celebrate on Earth Day at Best Cleaners this year as the environmentally-friendly drycleaning business rang up donations for the Connecticut Forest and Park Association (CFPA), the first non-profit conservation organization in the... -
READER SUBMITTED: East Catholic High School Students Win Local ACS Illustrated Poem Contest
ManchesterEast Catholic High School in Manchester, is pleased to announce that Junior Melissa DeBella and Sophomore Alex Wing placed first and second place respectively in the Connecticut Valley section of the ACS (America Chemistry Society) Illustrated Poem...Tags: Science and Technology
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LETTER: Why Landscape Butchery Along Highways?
For months now, I have watched the edges of roads and highways become more and more depleted of the beautiful trees that line them. While I understand that, in some cases, branches hanging too low over roads or select old trees perhaps leaning too...Tags: John James Audubon, Middletown
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Whitehall Township preserves history with Prydun Farm
I would like to thank the Whitehall Township mayor and commissioners for having vision to procure the Prydun Farm and to keep it for perpetuity as an undeveloped green space. Preliminary research has astonishingly revealed a historic past that touches...Tags: Allentown, Coplay, Human Interest, Liberty Bell, Whitehall
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Tamarac student bags winning design
What does South Florida nature look like? For 12-year-old Jordan Hessler, it's a canvas of clouds, the sun, palm trees and a bobbing boat. His vision is emblazoned on tote bags now for sale at Whole Foods Market in Coral Springs. The boy won a contest...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Tamarac, Coral Springs
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Climate change causes prostitution? Rep. Barbara Lee explains
Climate change is causing glaciers to melt, heat waves to become more intense, species to become extinct and low-lying island nations like Tuvalu to disappear altogether. To this list of calamities, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee has added another: Climate...
Tags: Weather, Environmental Issues, Raul Grijalva, Malaria, Global Change
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Oak Park composting program goes village-wide
One Oak Park resident reported not knowing how much food the family threw away until joining the village's pilot food-waste and soiled-paper collection that started last April. One woman said her family now throws out only one bag of garbage each month....Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Oak Park, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics
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Voice of the People, May. 01
Fresh water threat The Tribune's prominent April 22 editorial urging the Illinois Legislature to hurry up and allow fracking could not have been more heavily spun nor more badly timed ("Put Illinois to work; The stall on fracking is a job-killer")....Tags: Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, Water, Halliburton Company, Respiratory Disease
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Signs of grown-ups in charge
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision. Barack Obama used a recess...
Tags: Richard Cordray, Air Transportation Industry, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Solyndra LLC, Local Government
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Green Wheels: Start Your (Electric) Motors
If electric cars are to succeed, they need to be more visible. Only approximately 50,000 were sold nationwide last year, and that means that, everywhere but California, they're still pretty much under the radar. I've long believed that car buyers are...
Tags: BMW, Prius, New Canaan, Ford, New York City
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