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.
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Guest Post: Green Infrastructure Across the Country- Kansas City, MO
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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 […]
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 […]
Save the Sound Sailing Journey Part 4
Today’s post wraps up our six-day sailing adventure around Long Island Sound. Our own Curt Johnson shares with us the highlights from the trip’s final leg from Oyster Bay to Port Jefferson before sailing back home to Branford. After paddling in from our anchorage right off the town of Oyster Bay last night, Mark and […]