Category: General
Secretary of the State Denise Merrill Builds A Rain Garden
Yesterday, Save the Sound held an event with Secretary of the State Denise Merrill unveiling her new 201-square-foot bioswale/rain garden combination on the front lawn of her house in the West End of Hartford.
Rain Gardens: beautify your lawn and curb polluted runoff
There is one type of green infrastructure technique that stands out from the crowd as being aesthetically pleasing in addition to environmentally beneficial: rain gardens.
Guest Post: Green Infrastructure Across the Country- Kansas City, MO
Happy Green Infrastructure Week!
Save the Sound Celebrates 10 Years of Being Connecticut’s International Coastal Cleanup Coordinator
Next Saturday, September 15, Save the Sound will celebrate our 10th year as the Connecticut coordinator of the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. In its 27th year, International Coastal Cleanup brings volunteers together all around the world to clean up our coastlines. Last year alone, ICC brought together almost 600,000 volunteers who cleaned up 9,184,428 […]
Observation Friday: Hypoxia Threatens LIS This Summer
This week’s Observation Friday has Tom Andersen, author of This Fine Piece of Water, providing his thoughts on the severity of this year’s low-oxygen problem: Water quality in the western end of Long Island Sound this summer is not good – almost shockingly so considering the generally decent conditions of recent years. In roughly 18 […]
Light Up Facebook & Twitter: Tell Officials to Save Plum Island
Plum Island is an 843-acre island in New York waters, just 10 miles from the eastern Connecticut shoreline. It’s home to a federal research facility…and to Piping Plovers, Harbor Seals, Roseate Terns, and more. The federal government’s plan to auction the island puts this beautiful spot at risk of being turned into condos, and could […]