Recent News. Happenings. Discoveries…Here are some of the items on my radar.
GOOD NEWS from NEW HAVEN:
The Green is on the mend. And thanks to a number of generous donations, the price tag for the City of New Haven is much lower than was expected. You can see photos of the air spading and composting here.
Rock to Rock met its $100, 000 fundraising goal (double the amount of last year’s)! The total raised was well over $90,000 on April 21, the morning of the ride. On May 2, event organizer Joel Tolman emailed this news: “This morning, IKEA New Haven chipped in with the amount we needed to reach our $100,000 goal.” Over 750 riders participated in the various rides (and had lots of fun). The money raised supports the efforts of 21 environmental groups. The money is still coming in. As of today, the total is $100,154!
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| Chris Randall captured two loraxes passing West Rock. |
Neighborhood Housing Service’s Home Improvement and Energy Conservation Lab was awarded Platinum LEED status. Read more about it and check out the before and after photos here. This is a big deal. The lab joins three other LEED Platinum buildings in New Haven – Kroon Hall (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies), Yale Sculpture Building and Gallery, and 360 State Street (a 500 unit apartment building).
Higher One celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Science Park.
MakeHaven, a gathering place and workshop for makers, creators, tinkerers and dreamers, has opened on 266 State Street. The May 16 workshop on “Light Your Bike” (with electroluminescent wire) is filled. But you can purchase a ticket ($60) for a second workshop, date TBA.
There’s a new source of news in town – The Daily Nutmeg, an online publication delivered free to subscribers via email.
United Community Nursery School is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Happy Birthday UCNS! Thanks for providing a great start to school (and life) for hundreds of New Haven kids over the past 5 decades.
GOOD EATS
Sustainable fish is often on the IKEA New Haven restaurant menu. The fish? Saithe from Norway. More about this in a future post.
The number of owner/members in the Elm City Market continues to grow. When the store opened its doors on November 2, membership was at 750. There were 1505 members when the store’s site was last updated.
SlowFood Shoreline made a well-attended (as in sold out) foraging expedition to Wolfe Park in Monroe on April 28. I was sorry I had to miss it.
CitySeed Farmers Markets at Wooster Square (Sat.) and Edgewood Park (Sun.) resume their summer schedules this week.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
TONIGHT, MAY 5th
11:34 pm ET
The perigee (closest to earth) full moon on May 5, 2012 will be as much as 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of 2012. Don’t miss this spectacular free event!
May 12th
9:00 am - noon
May 16th
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Marydale DeBor will speak on Plow to Plate
at Sitar Indian Restaurant
45 Grove Street, New Haven
ontheroadtogreenness NEWS:
I passed my Master Gardener written test and am now out and about doing my community service hours and fielding questions in the New Haven County Master Gardening office. Need some free advice? Call us at 203.407.3168.
I have added a new gadget to the blog – Google Translate. You can now read my blog in nearly every language, including Esperanto, instantly. Give it a try.
I survived a cyberattack from South Korea which resulted in an advertisement for Windows in my comments section on a number of posts. I think I caught them all, and since I will now be approving all comments before they are posted, it should never happen again.
My page views continue to rise. Thanks for all the tweets, +1s and forwards. Please “visit” again soon. Together we can make a difference.
Congrats on being an MG. And thanks for all the New Haven updates. Am as of now a subscriber to Daily Nutmeg. And will attempt to see the moon thru the clouds...
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