A Viable Alternative to Conventional Lawn? Cornell May Have Found One.
Cornell Botanic Gardens is testing sustainable options for replacing your backyard grass. The bonus: They don’t need to be cut more than twice a year. Click HERE to read more.
Earth Day Expo
Join GCA and many other community organizations to celebrate Earth Day, raise awareness of climate change and provide the community with the ideas and tools it needs to live more sustainably. We hope you'll drop by our table to say hello!
GCA February 2023 Newsletter
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Documentary Film on Impacts of Climate Change Along Connecticut's Coast
Connecticut’s coastline along Long Island Sound is the frontline to some of the state’s most severe impacts of climate change. In this documentary film, the viewer will learn about Long Island Sound’s historical and ecological importance, what changes coastal communities face, and what needs to be done to protect them. Click on the image below to watch the movie.
CT League of Conservation Voters Environmental Summit 2023
Several members of GCA’s board and steering committee attended the CT LCV summit on Tuesday, January 24th. The LCV is a “non-partisan, statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to giving our environment a voice at the Capitol.” Twenty-one briefing papers were the topics of panel discussions ranging from the 30 x 30 goal (30% of CT’s forest and farm acreage protected by 2030), environmental justice, decarbonization, offshore wind, polystyrene and composting, to black bears, rodenticides and neonicotinoids. We urge you to read as many of the excellent and informative papers as you can.
Pollinators and Invasive Plants
Artificial Turf Fields May Carry Risk of Head Injuries
September 24, 2022 The Boston Globe published an article about the risks of artificial turf playing fields. GCA has expressed concerns (player safety and health, environmental impacts) about this problem for years, ever since Groton’s Athletic Fields Task Force first revealed their plans to build more artificial turf fields in various locations in Groton. Click HERE to read the Boston Globe article; click HERE for GCA’s 2021 presentation on artificial turf. Cover page illustrated below.
The Future of Water: A Call to Action to Avert a Global Climate Crisis
On Wednesday, October 19, 2022, from 6-7 pm, Columbia Climate School invites you to join an important discussion about the future of water, how to protect this precious resource, ensure access to clean drinking water, and how to avert catastrophic flooding and seawater inundation.
Click HERE to register and learn more.
How heat affects health: An overlooked outcome of climate change by Jan Ellen Spiegel
September 25, 2022 CT Mirror article. …Curiously, health tends to get second-class consideration among the many ways climate change affects our lives — after the storms, floods, drought and other more instantly catastrophic and obvious events. But climate change-induced health impacts are gaining traction as a primary concern — heat chief among them…. Click HERE to read the full article.
How heat affects health: An overlooked outcome of climate change
September 25, 2022 CT Mirror article. …Curiously, health tends to get second-class consideration among the many ways climate change affects our lives — after the storms, floods, drought and other more instantly catastrophic and obvious events. But climate change-induced health impacts are gaining traction as a primary concern — heat chief among them….
Click HERE to read the full article written by Jan Ellen Spiegel