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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.
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In keeping with our Green Infrastructure Week, we are excited to be having an event today with Secretary of the State Denise Merrill to unveil her brand new 201-square-foot bioswale/rain garden on the front lawn of her house in the West End of Hartford. We are thrilled that there is an elected official doing her […]
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!
CT not the only place in region worrying about sea level rise
A year ago, Connecticut’s coastline was ravaged by Tropical Storm Irene. Houses were destroyed, habitats were damaged, and we are still rebuilding from that storm today. Connecticut isn’t the only place in the region that felt the effects of Irene. New York City, with its 520-mile long coastline, braced itself for the storm by evacuating […]
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 […]