By James C. Malley, Board Chair, Connecticut Partnership for Sustainability Education The Environmental Sciences Magnet School at Mary Hooker in Hartford hosted a “Best Practices in Sustainability Education Workshop” on November 10, 2011 during National Sustainability Education week. Sponsored by the Connecticut Partnership for Sustainability Education, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and the [...]
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Environmental Sciences Magnet School at Mary Hooker Hosts Sustainability Education Workshop
November 22, 2011Helping Households Save Energy in Guilford, CT
October 12, 2011Greg Seaman, Secretary, Guilford Energy Task Force Guilford Energy Task Force applied for a grant from Community Catalyst Fund for $2500 to fund 30 low-income homeowners for home energy assessments. (The balance of the grant was for postage and supplies.) These HEAs were carried out by companies authorized by Northeast Utilities, which cost each homeowner [...]
Conservation Lands a Starring Role in Wethersfield, CT
October 11, 2011By Matthew Forrest, Esq., Wethersfield Green Summit Committee The Community Catalyst Fund provided the Wethersfield Green Summit Committee with a grant in the amount of $2,500.The grant provided us with the opportunity to create two videos for Wethersfield residents to view new conservation technologies. One video focused on insulation and weatherization technologies for the home. The [...]
Out with the OLD and in with the NEW: Single-Stream Recycling Begins in Farmington, CT
July 25, 2011By Liz Dolphin, Assistant Town Planner, Town of Farmington, CT Education is the first step in a successful recycling program, and thanks to a grant from Clean Air-Cool Planet’s Community Catalyst Fund, the Town of Farmington, CT is off to a great start as it enters the new era of single-stream recycling. The Community Catalyst [...]
A Community Harvest in Mansfield, CT
July 20, 2011By Dr. Beth T. Gankofskie, Food Service Director Mansfield Public Schools With support from the Community Catalyst Fund, Southeast Elementary School’s Garden Project started last summer (2010), has continued through to this spring (2011), and will continue through the summer. The garden is a raised bed measuring 20 feet by 24 feet with a surrounding [...]
Growing Environmental Literacy in Connecticut
June 3, 2011By Laurel Kohl, Energy Education Specialist, Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University Connecticut Outdoor and Environmental Educators (COEEA) received a $1200 grant from the Community Catalyst Fund in December 2010. That money has helped to present viewings of Mother Nature’s Child to more than 200 individuals to date, with 23 showings scheduled. [...]
Kent CT Takes the Pledge
May 6, 2011By Karren Garrity, Kent Energy and Environmental Task Force With support from the Community Catalyst Fund, the Kent Energy and Environmental Task Force launched the Kent Carbon Challenge in September 2010. This is a one year energy reduction challenge. We have had almost 200 people sign up! Of these 200, 82 have signed up for [...]
Retirement Communities Going Green
October 27, 2010Gray Is Green and the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut (AASCC) have partnered to help spread the concepts and practices of sustainable living to retirement communities and senior housing centers in Connecticut.
We’re talking to you. About money.
July 26, 2010By Bill Burtis Manager, Communications and Special Projects, Clean Air-Cool Planet It doesn’t often happen that when you offer people money, they don’t show up. But that’s exactly the position we at Clean Air-Cool Planet find ourselves in, and we’re not going to take it anymore. So, you are going to hear from us. If [...]
