Today, RecycleBank, one of the leading recycling rewards program in the country, announced that it will partner with the city of Hartford and provide its program to several local neighborhoods. This is a great eco-strategy.  One, it makes it easy for consumers to keep it simple by using a single waste stream and two; it [...]

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Northeast Utilities’ Environmental Community Grant Program which funds small scale local community and grassroots environmental projects every six months, is now accepting applications for Fall 2008 proposals which are due October 15.  Grants between $250 and $1,000 are awarded in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.  Applications are reviewed by a team of NU employees. Eligible projects protect [...]

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Next week, Connecticut and nine other eastern seaboard states will begin the first mandatory carbon-emissions trading program in the United States.  Under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the states and investors will hedge their bets that the country’s first mandatory program limiting carbon-dioxide emissions will create a market or value for a ton of [...]

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The Saybrook Point Inn has continued in its green ways and has installed and turned on a solar panel array. Saybrook Point Inn was the first Connecticut hotel to receive the “Clean Marina Award” and has since won it three more times. The facility has also won Circle Awards from the state Department of Environmental [...]

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