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2012-01-16T08:53:00.000-08:00

Don't read this unless your intention is to act on one or more of these. We don't need spectators, we need activists!

There comes a time when you've made your choice, you've made your decision... you don't have the patience to suffer fools lightly anymore, the time spent on trying to educate, debate, is simply wasted, pearls before swine.

You don't want to discuss the pros and cons, which is just another excuse for the pro-nuclear campers to perpetuate the agony, drag on their rhetoric to keep their plants running. You simply want to create strong coalitions, safety in numbers, blocks of power and influence which are going to tip the scales of what's left of our democratic process to force elected officials to put so much undo pressure on the mechanism of the nuclear power organized thug machinery to pack up, leave, stop spreading their radiation and waste and lies.

It becomes about strategy, logistic, it's like warfare... negotiations have broken down, there can't be compromise between an on or off decision, it's either one or the other, like you can't be a little pregnant!

In the New York area because so many in Manhattan control media, fashion, the arts, entertainment, they also have the final say on what goes in and around city limits, in its affluent suburbs, in its semi-secret institutions, in its schools and universities. Once they've made up their minds that they can no longer justify the kind of risk a nuclear power plant looms over them, the only viable solution is for all of them to band together in such a way, during an event, to demonstrate their displeasure at a company like Entergy for perpetuating a situation no longer acceptable to the elite majority ruling.

This is what is happening, now, as we speak, but it still needs the momentum of the grassroots to cement and yield all of its available force. Because of the crushing class structure distancing have and have nots, it's become increasingly difficult to approach and enlist support of populist movements to the final decisions made by the ruling autocracy of the New York social scene. To achieve this desired result it was necessary to pit everyone into situations where these differences wouldn't matter to the outcome.

In a sense that was the aim of Occupy Wall Street, if only symbolically, to break down barriers between student activists, homelessness, left leaning liberal elites, in an accusatory fashion pointing at the greed and abuses of mindless capitalist exploitators who never understood what the 7th generation means. Nuclear power is the quintessential example of the concentration of power into the hands of a few, made possible only by the corruption of union bosses.

So this is where we are on the banks of the Hudson... if everything hangs tight, without a restored water permit from the DEC, the NRC cannot legally award Entergy a renewed operating license for Indian Point, and so, reactor 2 will have to start decommissioning in 2013, and reactor 3 in 2015. Decommissioning will in fact start providing twice the number of unionized jobs than are currently employed by the plant, for at least the next ten years, as the reactors cool, and the waste needs to be safely stored, safe distance from any potential terrorist attempt at abusing the circumstances.

The Hudson Valley will breathe easier, and tourism will be restored to the Peekskill area, exploding opportunities for an economic boom, freeing the now isolated and terrified to speak out immigrant population which has used Peekskill as a cheap place to settle, a place made cheap by the existence of the perpetual risk of Indian Point.

We've all been much too complacent, allowing Entergy and the NRC to string us along for years, and years, and years, while we keep ducking bullets! Until Fukushima, the progressive community in Manhattan was not committing enough time and resources to getting the job done. Those in high positions of media influence in a City that never sleeps have started to put their foot down with elected representatives to yank the plug on that relic from the spooky 50s.

We should be going up and down Madison avenue kicking people up the ass until they finally come to realize they have to use the tools of their trade to remove this incessant threat to the greening of our lives. If we can transform something like the High Line into a phenomenal park, what's keeping New Yorkers from putting the kibosh on IP? Nothing really.

Nuclear accidents have spurred a massive global experiment in another round of survival of the fittest evolutionary spectacle. Humans can be resilient, but only certain metabolisms, born through years of selective breeding. So as a huge portion of our species will probably succumb to genome deterioration caused by ionizing radiation, a small segment of individuals, who have generated the necessary biomorphic forcefields to shield themselves from the toxicity, the same way certain genealogical lines are less susceptible to hereditary cancers, will learn to strive in this heightened energetic environment.

It's going to be just like the X-Men, giving a whole new meaning to the have and the have nots, and to class structures. Welcome to the world of Grant Morrisson.

When Indian Point saw its first reactor it was fueled by thorium, which was quickly replaced by enriched uranium because they couldn't generate enough power. The thorium gang today is trying to revive the idea that thorium fission could be a lot safer, and they are right, but that's like saying jumping off a third story window is safer than jumping off the roof.

In Japan they are flying kites during anti-nuclear demonstrations, I like that idea. Anti-nuclear activist from Ohio, Michael Leonardi, suggested a super-sized Blinky, the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons, be made into a Macy's day parade inflatable float. Who makes these things and who can afford to make us one?

Rolf Maurer wants insurance companies to cover homeowner's coverage in the event of a nuclear disaster, as a gesture of good faith that such plants are safe, as policies have an exemption clause for such events. That's a good idea. We need to draft a uniform document we could provide homeowners to send their insurance companies, also walk into real estate agencies and suggest realtors take an active role in this approach.

Eileen Mahood-Jose reminds us that on January 5, 1954, the Buchanan Village Board held a 10-minute public hearing on rezoning the area known as Indian Point, formerly a popular park with beaches, trails, swimming pools and two piers receiving thousands of people by boat out for a day of fun. The plan was passed without opposition. According to terms of the deal, Con Edison was to pay 70 percent of the Hendrick-Hudson school district’s taxes, install a village-wide sewer system, pave streets and provide mercury streetlights.

Cathy Iwane wants to get a group to dress in Hazmat suits carrying Geiger counters measuring the children.

"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" Ralph Nader. If you want to see great movies about "revolution" I recommend "Duck You Sucker" with James Coburn and Rod Steiger, also "Vera Cruz" with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. A revolution won't shut down Indian Point. Only the Super-Rich can. In Germany, the Super-Rich are anti-nuclear, and besides it's not a done deal yet. It's also because in Germany, the Green Party has a lot of power, because in Germany, green corporations were not kept out of the party, and it was able to gain serious political influence.

Start with David Rockefeller Jr. who wants Indian Point shut down but won't go against his father. David Rockefeller Sr. owns the Stone Barns agricultural center, a 100 acres organic farm 10 miles south of Indian Point. The same is true for many of the Hearst children, who belong to Riverkeeper. They all need to speak out in a single voice, which is what Robert Kennedy Jr. does for them.

If someone like Faith Kates who is both president of the Next modeling agency and the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund came out against Indian Point, would join ABC Home, Donna Karan and Kenneth Cole, it would go a long way. Faith Kates hosts one of the most lavish celebrity laced fundraiser in the Hamptons every year for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. That's political influence! Imagine hundreds of anti-nuclear fashion models, that would attract the attention of the Boilermakers union.

Andrea Kalkstein Lieberman wants to create a traffic jam surrounding the plant simulating a failed evacuation plan... Andrea is right, discussing the evacuation plan is a non-starter, it doesn't lead anywhere except a cul de sac of frustration.

We are looking for positive action, which builds new coalitions, outside of the usual inner circle. We are looking for new allies in professional associations, who can apply extraordinary pressure on their representatives. Occupy the NRC? Sure, but that's another distraction requiring trips to DC. Occupy the plant itself? If you knew the geography, you would know how unlikely that is, other than on the river with a flotilla, was already done years ago, see picture on the Rock The Reactors website.

The entrance to Indian Point is located on a long narrow road, with a high fence and barbwire all around, only one sliding gate, no room to park or even stand around. There's been a few actions at the plant over the years, they generally don't garner much attention past a small mention in local newspapers. Indian Point hasn't been shut down by conventional actions. It needs the voice of large institutions, schools, hospitals, Masonic organizations, organic farming associations. Once these large groups, with political, social and economic clout, real influence on the community start to voice out their opinion, it offers leverage.

The company which owns IP, Entergy, has been doing this for years, to their own advantage, so I can't understand why anti-nuclear groups have not tried to do the same, in an organized, orchestrated fashion. And again to remind everyone, LEDs alone can and are replacing all the electricity IP produces. No need for hydro, or anything else. We are doing much more with a lot less. That's the beauty of increased energy efficiency. It makes old plants like Indian Point obsolete.

Organizing a traffic jam is a beautiful idea, problem is execution. Where are you going to find enough people to drive to Buchanan and stage something like this? You wouldn't need many cars, but what traffic would it actually block? There's hardly any traffic on that road in the first place, practically deserted... the only reason to drive on it is to go to and fro the plant. It's a good visual, but impractical, and also you simply get the town's people upset with something like this, I don't think it would achieve anything.

Rather, there are dozens of companies with factories, assembly facilities, etc... along the way, they live and work in the shadow of Indian Point every day. Has anyone asked the people who work there how they feel about working in such close proximity to the plant? That would make for a poignant documentary, if only to see people after people chasing cameras away... Next time Indian Point sets off the sirens for a test, simply organize it so the local anti-nuclear population acts as if it was an actual alert, get in their cars and flood the roads... simulate breaking down in the middle of Route 9, clog... We can also bring out the zombies, like a scene out of the Walking Dead.

October 1954: Consolidated Edison buys Indian Point Park and an adjacent tract, totaling 350 acres on the banks of the Hudson River at Indian Point, which is a popular park with beaches, trails, swimming pools and two piers. The plants are sited on the Hudson River, the Ramapo earthquake fault line, and 24 miles from the New York City line.

The pier where Clearwater actually docks its sloop is owned by Entergy, on Indian Point property, it's only a short distance from the plant. Now, isn't that ironic? In other words, ConEd bought 350 acres of prime riverfront park land with beaches, trails, swimming pools and two piers, and turned it into a war zone! Look at Peekskill today, a bombed out shell, half the buildings empty, store fronts boarded up, the city split in half between old timers hanging on, and barely legal immigrants who have settled there because it was the cheapest place around nobody else wanted.

As a community they are terrified to speak out against Indian Point because it could mean immigration coming down on them. Entergy foments this state of perpetual paranoia by funding the downtown free clinic. Certainly, sending a few Spanish and Portuguese speaking organizers into the community would go a long way in mobilizing the local population into building a sentiment of opposition against Indian Point, something which has never been done. Latin immigrants make up for half the residents of the community, and yet I have never seen a single Hispanic at any of the IP relicensing meetings.

We've been trying to get a top fashion magazine to shoot a spread on board the Clearwater with Indian Point in the background, but people just don't understand the importance of doing things like this and we've so far been unsuccessful. Why hasn't Elle or Vogue ever shot a fashion layout on board the Clearwater sloop, and why hasn't Clearwater ever really tried to make it happen? In New York fashion trumps politics. One picture of the Clearwater in front of Indian Point in a mainstream fashion magazine would do ten times more than a mention in Time or Newsweek. The anti-nuclear community is not using the opportunity Manhattan lends them!

Joost van Steenis writes: "The nuclear plant is like the heart of a human. Many veins connect the center with the rest of the body. When you stop the supplying of foodstuffs to the heart the heart will stop working. And what does a nuclear plant needs to continue working? All kinds of materials (including water) to keep the plant running. Food for the people who work there, materials to repair the plant, office articles to let the office run. The suppliers can be put under pressure. They come from outside. The stuff has to be transported to plant. There are also many organizations and private persons who own shares in the plant. They can be put under pressure. The plant is everywhere and where it is you can apply pressure. Be a little bit creative and maybe some suppliers will stop supplying because trade with the plant is only a fraction of their business and they do not want to be disturbed in their business. And maybe even other clients will withdraw their orders. And then I do not even talk about the people who work there and could work also elsewhere instead of helping to produce dangerous energy. Be creative and do not concentrate on the plant but on the supply lines of the plant through which the blood streams that keeps the plant alive. Pressure the suppliers."

‎On many occasions I have told folks at Entergy when they give away t-shirts promoting themselves as clean and green, it doesn't help their cause that their t-shirts are not printed on organic cotton. Anti-nuclear sentiment in Buchanan and Peekskill has been repressed. I've spoken to many people there who if they had a choice, would pick closing the plant, but are not comfortable voicing their opinion. The community needs organizers, and it doesn't have any. Nobody from Clearwater, IPSEC, Riverkeeper has actually gone inside the community to organize. Couple of years ago, we tried to get everyone behind opening a shut down IP office in Peekskill, where the rents are dirt cheap, but nobody wanted to make the effort.

Peekskill has a town square... This is the public gazebo located in the heart of downtown Peekskill. I would think this could be a perfect location for a Occupy Peekskill/Shut Down Indian Point rally. Just a few yards away, there is a toy store with a giant Lionel train set. Neil Young owns Lionel now. Neil has a melted down nuclear power plant in his son's train set! Doesn't take a marketing PR genius to understand the possibilities!!!

If you look carefully at the recent evolution of humanity, the population explosion, the growing gap between rich and poor, educated and illiterate, it's become insurmountable. The haves are huddling to save what they have and the have nots are repressed by non-lethal weapons in developed nations, and outright military oppression everywhere else.

Once upon a time you could walk off the street into a university library and teach yourself a few things... grow in stature and intellect... now you can't get past the front gate, and even if you could, only tuition paid students have access to the information since it's all gone Wi-Fi digital. The stacks are empty of printed journals.

Without the cultural input of self-thought inventors and thinkers, mankind will slowly degenerate into a mindless insect like society incapable of enlightenment. Cancer is just the result of our molecular and electromagnetic disintegration. Cancer is a disease of the emotions, caused by reversed polarizations of the cells. Radiation and other environmental exposures are just triggers, which is how the weak and sensitive are much more susceptible.

We're constantly downgrading our genome, which brings us to precarious territory. Nature is violent in the way it deals with ecological balance. The choice between empathy and ruthlessness depends on available resources. There's no solution other than order out of chaos, when in doubt just reshuffle the cards and start again, which is what nature on this planet has done over and over again over the millennia.

My concern is the creation of pockets of survival, where fauna is sufficiently plentiful to support communities, which is why the New York area is ideal, and why so much attention has been paid to redress the relationship between the city and its immediate suburban surroundings, nurturing access to fresh water. The only thing that keeps the tri-state region from being secure for immediate future generations, is the existence of old and dangerous nuclear power plants, which need to be shut down and decommissioned at our earliest convenience, otherwise all the green things we do won't amount to a hill of beans, our future no brighter than the people of Fukushima.

On the more practical side, that's why it's so important to bring organizations such as the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund into the fight against nuclear power. This can't be done without actively soliciting the participation of its members.

We have entered an era when the super wealthy want to protect themselves, and their immediate environment, which you see unfold in rich neighborhoods where eco-luxury has taken hold, with gourmet health food stores, hybrid cars, organic spas and farmers markets. This extends to a police force using the latest non-lethal weapon technology to control the rising tide of discontent coming from surrounding communities living in poverty.

The way to deal with this situation is to use drugs as a pretext to incarcerate as many high testosterone individuals as possible in defacto work camps, defusing the pool of potential leadership organizing the lower classes. This would have been a recipe for disaster a century ago, but today, with flat screen TV, and active denial microwave systems, it's a cinch to protect the status quo. Which means the only way to save the planet is to work through the system and become best bud with the military-industrial complex, in the hope they will allow us to build civilian UFOs, which is really just a metaphor for clean and limitless energy systems.

Stefanie Iris Weiss feels that if we follow the model of Gene Sharp's How to Start a Revolution, we will get somewhere. With SOPA and the NDAA and the new weapons that can be used against civilians, our only option is MILLIONS of us in the streets. So she still feels that OWS can shift the downward spiral. Our world does not have to be the world of 1984. She thinks it will seem dark over the coming months, but hope will return in the spring. They can't arrest/pepper spray/fire bomb an idea. It's out there, and it's not getting put back in the box.

I would like to believe OWS will have the effect aspired to, and it surely is a part of the change taking place. But again, this goes much deeper, and until the leadership, and there is a leadership, incorporates the discoveries of the conspiracy culture, to fine tune the message into a populist pill, it won't reach these millions we hope will rise in opposition to the global corporate state.

Take Fairfield County, Westchester, the Hamptons for example... these communities are made up of millions of individuals, families, who feed at the troff of internationalism, who give billions to charities, who live a green life style at the expense of dollar a day wages. They go to yoga to seek peace of mind. How do you connect all the dots so they start to genuinely empathize with the needs of the rest of their fellow men? It's been the question of the ages, except now you have 7 billion people on this planet, dwindling resources, no more fish in the sea, food prices doubling in a year, and a military-industrial complex holding on to the secret of unlimited clean energy as an ace in the hole for fear it would destabilize the world economy.

All this has to be assembled into a package that makes sense to the masses, and so the guy they're grooming to do that is Ron Paul evidently, because I don't see anyone else in sight. They're going to use him to cover the bases. The left is preoccupying itself with radical feminist issues, when it's the truck drivers, bikers and rockers we need to appeal to if we're really going to get this show on the road. The anger is there, it's just not directed at anything political, because the political institutions intentionally do not reflect the fashion of the culture.

It will change once candidates stop wearing red ties and blue polyester suits to conform to this red, white and blue ideal of what a political candidate needs to look like. We need guys like Nikki Sixx to run for office. That's how we shake things up! Tattoos are like war paint, they're not just ornamental, they reflect an inner state of mind that needs to rise to the surface.

With the National Defense Authorization Act in place, I don't know that we have another four years. As conspiracy culture rises to the surface, "The Truth Is Out There" rumble of urban legends that fuel our psyche. The same polarized debate of lesser of two evil has permeated the presidential election for decades. The liberal elite is subservient to the Skull & Bones graduates who meet at the Bohemian Grove every year, 2000 of them. They want a system in place that preserves their right to own a yacht and keeps the seas relatively clean.

The fly in the ointment here is that the seas are going fast, which is how we now have David Rockefeller Jr., David de Rothschild and other "cool rich kids" from the Federal dynasties trying to do two things, preserve their fortune while at the same time save the planet. The only logical outcome is some form of benevolent fascist ecological dictatorship, and Ron Paul strikes right at the heart of this social evolution. Ron Paul wants to do away with the Federal Bank Reserve, a direct assault at the wealth and power of these families. You groom someone like that long enough, so they appear to challenge the authority of the status quo, and then once in power, they are impotent to do anything other than go along with the Bilderberg plan, just like Carter, Clinton or Obama, lap dogs and front men to fait accompli.

Be clear that my priority in this mess is the survival of the planet. I support the superwealthy making it a priority, finding ways to curtail fossil fuel industrialism in favor of a new urbanism direction, as expressed by experiments like the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Call it billionaire survivalism. Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose. The problem is that there is another layer of power above this group, which prevents disclosure of more evolved energy technologies, preventing the application of necessary tools of restoration. It's not rich against poor, it's rich and poor against another level of suppression the masses are only becoming aware of, which for centuries they simply dismissed as religious. To quote Porno For Pyros, "we make great pets"! Reagan hit the nail on the head when he warned us that only an alien invasion would unite the people of Earth.

If you don't pull out the root of the dandelion, it grows right back. This is the generation which finally comes out and addresses the root of the problem, it's very close to the end of the road here for this species on this planet unless it wakes up. All the cards are on the table, all the conspiracies coming to light. It's all about perceptions, and not taking these communities in consideration, which are vast and influence the direction of the situation, is a grave mistake in my opinion.

That's how you get blindsided by shifts in popular opinion. Concerns about Ron Paul are overshadowed by what he brings to the picture. The secret societies and the decisions they make guide countries and governments... everything happening now was predicted and managed by policy set in place years ago. The point I am trying to make here, is that it is spinning out of control, that nobody, no institution, no cabal a la Eyes Wide Shut can guess what happens next. All they can do is as they always do, organize the opposition.

Whatever happens that will be a game changer, has to come out of left field and take everyone by surprise because they weren't paying attention. The situation is very much like IBM passing up the Apple because it didn't see the Internet coming! Don't make that mistake, don't take my word for it, widen your political science field of vision... you can't fit everything nice into a box, and hope all the pieces are going to fit together, they're not. At least not on this plane of existence.

Imagine you've been playing two dimensional chess, and suddenly the board has become three dimensional, that's what is happening to politics, or rather to human dynamics, right now. At no time in history have the secrets of the universe been at everyone's reach, the amount of knowledge in those who seek has been boosted exponentially. We know the truth, we know how the truth works, we have the science.

The trick is how do we trickle it down in such a way that is humane, just, and doesn't sweep away most living things, something which is already happening. You can't stop what you can't see, so if you don't understand the DNA rooted in what was already expressed in what gave birth to the Nazi Party in Germany, and its remnants in today's intelligence community, you're not giving people a chance. The blinders are already off, we simply need to open our eyes and let the light in. We're not alone.

We're stuck in a two party system, and the perceived polarity is getting even worse. People are fed up, and the Feds are quickly becoming the boogeymen, which they are, ever since they took power in 1913, and probably did away with Kennedy because he threatened to create a new currency. We have to look behind the curtain, and drag out whoever is pulling the strings, unveil the puppet masters, otherwise we will forever remain stuck on the merry go round!

We had to create hundreds of independent environmental organizations just to undo and fight the harm caused by EPA policies funded by the Federal government protecting the right of big business to pollute everything. The EPA was a sham from the start. Nixon was forced to create it after 30 million people walked in the streets on Earth Day 1970. A paper tiger. Did you ever set foot in the EPA building in the 80s or even the 90s? An empty shell, a joke, a facade... corridors after corridors of offices that looked as if nothing was going on there... a chill went down my spine when I realized the whole thing was just a sham. And then we learned the building itself was suffering from the worse possible case of sick building syndrome... The EPA isn't going to save the planet. Sorry.

We desperately need a parliamentary system in this country, so third parties like the Green Party, or at least a new version of the Green Party which isn't anti-green business, to have a voice in a Congress that's made up of more than just Republican and Democrat lackeys to the Federal dynasties. As in Chinese medicine, make the pain worse to isolate its source! You might not agree, but I would love nothing better than a Ron Paul/Obama showdown, if that's our only option at this junction. It would make things a heck of a lot more interesting.

I don't think we've evolved beyond the need for iconic figures, our entire culture is based on the cult of personality. I just want to see people step up to the plate who deserve the adoration of the public for more than just having hissy fits on reality television.

Indian Point, as well as the entire anti-nuclear movement, still needs to discover its new generation of stars. It's a faceless, windowless movement right now, led by old timers who have never given up, who keep hoping for fresh new faces to take up the mantle. Leaders who can bring everyone back together thinking, acting and speaking in a singular voice of opposition against the relicensing of a plant that like an old dog, has had its day.

Here at Rock The Reactors, we're still waiting, selling organic t-shirts with Gaia standing in front of Indian Point on them, and always open to suggestions.

Why does the New York Post hate LEDs?

2011-12-17T09:39:00.001-08:00

Over and over again, almost every other day, some NYPost writer pens an editorial about the incandescent bulb ban, lambasting fluorescents, and never mentioning a single thing about LEDs! Now why is that?

Well the answer is simple really. The NYPost, Murdoch & Bloomberg, are in bed with the utilities, with ConEd and with Entergy! They know that LEDs have the potential to make the Indian Point nuclear power plant an obsolete pile of junk destined to be thrown on the heap of history!

Bloomberg got a chill down his spine a few years ago when his staff made him realize that his promotion of LED lights for bridges and tunnels, for the Christmas tree in Rockefeller plaza, for the ball that comes down on Times Square every New Year's Eve, in fact spelled the death throes of old and dirty power plants. That suddenly, new lighting technology, allowed us to do a lot more with a lot less.

That's what you call a disruptive technology, a technology that ultimately displaces workers, makes their jobs no longer required, puts them in the unemployment line. So Bloomberg cooled down the rhetoric, now there's little mention of LEDs when the ball comes down at midnight, or the tree gets lit. These events are no longer used to promote energy efficiency, because God forbid we don't want the public to become too energy efficient, or we'd have to shut down Indian Point, as an unnecessary terrorist risk!

So the NYPost lies about there being no other alternative to incandescent except fluorescent. The NYPost doesn't tell you that LEDs pay for themselves in less than a year from the electrical savings on your utility bill. The NYPost doesn't tell you how beautiful LED light is, and that China is in the process of lighting the entire planet with LEDs, and that America, once again, has missed the boat because of the greed of a few dying oil, coal and nuke tyrants who are finishing their miserable lives in Greenwich, Westchester and Hampton mansions!

Few years ago, the NYPost thought it could buy into the green consumer movement, so it agreed to become the official sponsor of the GoGreen Expo, printing a beautiful 12 pages program insert, with Tommy Lee on the cover pumping his new show on the Planet Green channel. Entergy saw this as an opportunity to park a dozen pedicabs outside the Hilton Hotel wrapped in advertising promoting Indian Point as clean and green and the solution to global warming.

I yelled at the drivers so loud, they said they didn't have a choice or they'd lose their jobs. They didn't come back the next day, told their bosses they didn't want to be subject to that kind of verbal abuse again! Sometimes it pays to be adamant about what you believe.

The NYPost, which is the paper of record of New York City, should know better. It's there to tell us good juicy gossip tidbits, to tell us what CondeNasty was kept out of a fashion show, what celebrity gave to what charity, who got murdered in the most atrocious ways! It's not there to perpetuate the myth that Indian Point doesn't put us at risk each and every single day! The NYPost needs to break its sick editorial relationship with Entergy, and realize New Yorkers don't buy into the lies any more, and they want their NYPost to stand up for what's right!

Instead of kicking energy efficient lighting down the road, claiming losing our right to buy incandescent bulbs, which are destroying the air we breathe with excessive consumption of oil, coal and nuclear fuel... It should be writing about the National Defense Authorization Act and how that is REALLY going to affect our freedoms.

The National Guards should be retrofitting neighborhoods and bases with LEDs, not train with Homeland Security to indefinitely incarcerate US citizens in concentration camps without a trial for advocating energy independence! Whose side are you on NYPost?

New York, don't let Murdoch and Bloomberg dictate your energy future, don't let them take away the love and joy of reading all the fun stuff on Page Six. Don't let them kill your guilty pleasure. Fight to bring the NYPost back from the brink, yank it from the evil clutches of the shadow world.

Dr. Grymm's Steampunk Bizarre

2011-10-25T06:11:00.000-07:00

On Friday October 21st 2011, Dr. Grymm hosted a magnificent masquerade ball at the Mark Twain House in Hartford. Guests were treated to Praying Mantis porter, a wonderfully smooth local ale, and Onyx moonshine, part vodka, part prohibition drag racing fuel! Tim & Mike Marchand of Ajar Communications screened their film Steam Driven, a charming love story. The Steampunk Bizarre art exhibition remains open until January 15th 2012. Don't miss it!
Click HERE for more pictures...

The Sad Tale of the Lost Frisbees

2011-10-25T05:41:00.000-07:00

Three years ago, when we organized the first Green Market Exposition at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport we decided to make the frisbee a symbol of the event, because it represented the spirit of innovation for the city. We received a donation from Sikorksy to purchase 200 blank Wham-O frisbees that local artists could paint, to put on exhibit and sell at auction to raise money. We gave one to 35 artists who signed a pledge to return them with art work. Three years later, only these 5 have come back. We are holding on to the remaining frisbees for when a more organized effort can be initiated.

- Joy Rose -

- Red -

- Frank Fieri -

- Steve Richardson -

- Susan Fazekas -

Let Them Eat Cake

2011-10-04T19:41:00.000-07:00

Right wing Wall street bankers mocking and laughing at Occupy Wall St. protestors while drinking champagne from the safety of their perched balconies.

Good Morning Campus!

2011-09-26T04:01:00.000-07:00

Alright, it's been an eternity since I posted anything here, it's not like there's so much traffic anyone's been missing it. But I just wanted to send whoever actually logs on once in awhile a head's up about a few important things.

First of all, don't miss the day of anti-nuclear rallies scheduled for October 1st all over the country, a project spearheaded by Priscilla Star, a friend of Helen Caldicott. Helen will attend the New York City gathering from Noon to 3:30pm at Pier 95 in Manhattan. You can get all the detailed information by Googling the Coalition Against Nukes or log on to Rock The Reactors, our sister website.

The other upcoming event is the Riverkeeper EcoSalon fundraiser dedicated to Indian Point on October 13. Riverkeeper is the organization with the lawyers making sure the NY Department of Environmental Conservation sticks to its guns. Indian Point lost its water permit because of the 2.4 billion gallons of super heated water poured back into the Hudson river every day. We have a ton of giant bass who love the high temperatures, at the expense of every other native species.

Without a water permit, the NRC cannot award Entergy its renewed license to keep operating Indian Point for another 20 to 40 years. That's a good thing! That means the plant will start decommissioning reactor 2 in 2013, and reactor 3 in 2015. We've ducked so many bullets, we wish it could be sooner. There's still a good chance we can close Indian Point now if enough influential people come together.

Many more events, gatherings, legal actions, are being organized. A new group has formed in the Hudson Valley called Stony Point 55. In Manhattan, Shut Down Indian Point Now. It's a time of reorganizing the grassroots. In Norwalk, join us every Saturday from 8pm to 10pm at the Aquarium Steampunk Reading Room for Norwalk Green Drinks. Thousands of books chronicling the evolution of the environmental movement are there to inspire future actions.

LED Retrofit at the Aquarium

2010-11-03T10:31:00.000-07:00

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Raymond Caddy of Brighten Your Home came by The Aquarium to disconnect the ballast and rewire the fluorescent fixture to accomodate the new UL certified T-8 replacement LED tubes supplied by Robert Van Winkle Jr.

The goal is to show the retrofit installation to many prospective buyers, including other tenants of our landlord's properties.

Feel free to drop in The (other) Aquarium on 10 Knight Street in Norwalk, CT to check out just how amazing the quality of the light coming from these LEDs is, and learn how you too can start saving up to 60% off your office, business or factory space utility bills while enjoying a quality of light and life far superior to the numbing flicker of old fluorescent tubes.

The Aquarium is (usually) open to the public from 1 to 3 in the afternoon, or by appointment. It's located next door to Galaxy Cookies, facing Fat Cat Pie off Wall St. in Norwalk, CT

Green Energy and Building Expo at the Mohegan Sun, on again tomorrow!!!

2010-02-19T20:43:00.000-08:00

Bradford Rand of Go Green Expo greets guests of his friend Green Energy & Building Expo, Green Marine Productions Peter Romano at the Mohegan Sun, Friday, February 19, 2010 to a lobby full of electric vehicles, including a silver Tesla Roadster.

The lovely ladies of A Lot To Say apparel, busy at work developing their new website, a long way from their home base in Danville, California.

Sierra Club has the right idea, but they need to update their poster with a LED!

Like the new array of Sylvania LED models on display at the Munro Conservation Group table.

Bradford Rand and the charming Mercury Solar booth babe, actress Samantha Ashley, who promised to attend a future Westchester Greendrinks, where she lives.

Another cute photo of Brad and the reason why everyone was spending so much time at the Mercury Solar booth... I kicked myself on the way home for not asking Samantha to pose with the Tesla Roadster in the lobby. It must have been all the extra oxygen and charged ion particles the Mohegan Sun pumps into its air filtration system to keep the gamblers alert, and in the zone, droning to the sweet electronic tone of slot machines...

With a name like Celtic Energy, these two should dress up in medieval garb and attend Renaissance fairs, spread the green news to new shores...

There's still time for you to attend the Green Energy & Building Expo, which is open Saturday, February 20th till 4 pm. It's worth the drive from Fairfield County. Don't forget to say hello to Daphne Dixon of all the CT Gold Coast Green Drinks at her Conscious Decisions booth next to the Smart car.

Go visit this great show!

Bridgeport Design Group Green Downtown Plans

2010-02-13T07:08:00.000-08:00

A few days after a small group of green builders and architects sat down to discuss the regional future of LEED at the opening reception of a Sacred Heart University's Gallery of Comtemporary Art exhibit on local green building projects, the mayor of Bridgeport Bill Finch unveiled his team of urban planning students from Germany who have been quietly re-inventing downtown as a green redevelopment showcase. The gathering took place at the Bridgeport Public Library.

The team is being led by Nils Wiesenmüller
of the Bridgeport Design Group.
From Connecticut Post:
"Nils Wiesenmuller, principal and co-founder at the Bridgeport Design Group, spearheaded a “Renew Bridgeport” workshop that brought 21 students from the ClimateDesign program at Technische Universtat Munich (TUM) in Germany to Bridgeport to design concepts for five pieces of land along the Pequonnock River in Bridgeport. The idea of the workshop was to find ideas to help revitalize Bridgeport and make it a landmark city for sustainable, green, climate-friendly design."

Recycled Frisbee Art Auction For Bridgeport

2009-12-28T03:50:00.000-08:00

There is nothing simpler or more attractive than a Frisbee in flight. It's pure beauty in motion, it captivates the imagination. This is how the workers at the Frisbie Pie company must have felt when they were messing around with the pie tins, flinging them so they would rest on a cushion of air and fly a great distance, thousands landing at the bottom of the river we are told. So it's no surprize a company making things out of a new material called plastic thought to improve on the design and come up with one of the most popular and resilient toy in the world, now a serious sport.

When we were organizing the first Green Market Exposition at the Barnum Museum, we were looking for something to represent the City of Bridgeport, its spirit of innovation, its long association to the local avionics and aeronautics community, and so we decided to make the Frisbee the symbol of our event. I knew Wham-O sold a recycled plastic version so I envisioned artists painting the top of Frisbees, putting them on display at the Expo and at auction to raise some money for green projects.

I contacted the Wham-O recycled Frisbee licensed manufacturer Discovering The World, who agreed on a good price, then we started looking for a sponsor. We were not able to raise the funds in time for the 2009 GME, but at the expo, one of our guest speaker was Robert Araujo from Sikorsky, who liked the idea, and helped us get it through committee. A few days ago two large boxes were delivered on my doorstep, containing 200 Reflyer 100 Mold Frisbees, 60% post-consumer recycled polyethylene, ready to be painted.

Artists can stop at some of these participating galleries and green businesses to pick up their blank Frisbee: City Lights Gallery, Day One Skateshop, Center For Green Building, and the Green Living Center at the Saugatuck train station in Westport. You will be asked to sign a short release form agreeing to return the Frisbee with art work painted on it in due time for the auction at the Green Market Exposition starting October 8th 2010 at the Barnum Museum.

(There will be a pre-showing at City Lights Gallery on Earth Day April 22nd.)

You can also download this Word File form and mail it in. We will send you a Frisbee in return mail. But if you pick them up in person at the above locations, you will receive a free sample bottle of Citra Solv, a safe, bio-degradable solvent with a multitude of art uses. Citra Solv is based in Danbury.

For paint to properly stick on polyethylene, you must use enamel paint, or first prime the surface of the Frisbee with a clear coat and use acrylic paint. I know it's not the greenest thing around, but we will start working with Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety to identify the most environmentally friendly acrylic paints and methods out there.

If you want to read more about the history of the Frisbee, you can find an entire chapter in Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City by Eric D. Lehman.

Greening Bridgeport... One Street At A Time!

2009-12-03T04:48:00.001-08:00

The other day I had the wonderful opportunity to witness Bridgeport Mayor's Conservation Corps in action. It's almost the end of the season, so the group was much smaller than usual, but I got a chance to experience change in motion.

In the photo above you can see left to right: Damtia Agee, Jahaida Diaz, Marquese Griffin, Patrick Peluso Jr., Richard R. Hines, Trysh Brown, Tori Brown.

Since July, almost everyday of the week, Lisa Bretton Miro, Park City's conservation coordinator (below), has been training and putting dozens of dedicated young men and women on the streets of Bridgeport to canvas neighborhoods, educate residents about a myriad of recycling, tree planting and energy saving measures for their homes or business, including a rain barrel program to reduce storm water pollution.

On the table you can see a few copies of E The Environmental magazine and a small selection of light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) which I brought with me for the occasion to show and tell.

Before heading out into the streets to canvas, each volunteers meet in a prep room at City Hall where they map out their route.

A small bus takes them to destination where they spend the afternoon knocking on doors, talking to homeowners, asking them to fill out a fun, but detailed questionaire about their willingness to participate in future activities to green and beautify their neighborhood.

Keep up the good work guys, what you're doing is amazing. (Love the Betty Boop bag! Yeah Eco-Betty!)

Green Market Exposition at the Barnum Museum

2009-10-21T15:20:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all involved for a wonderful, productive event! Thanks to Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch for launching a full day packed with dozens of great speakers and hundreds of attendees. Stay tuned for many follow-ups to all the meetings and networking that took place today...

To see pictures of the event, click on through to the Rock The Reactors website and visit Green Market Exposition. We are already preparing for next year...

Bridgeport Industrial - Future Green World!

2009-07-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

Save The Date Aug 5th

2009-07-16T07:36:00.000-07:00

Norwalk Greendrinks has moved to Fat Cat Pie and will resume on August 5th. To be included on the mailing list, contact Daphne Dixon at www.greenmarketexposition.org

To read more about the move, go to the CTSOS list.

Housatonic Community College Environmental Fair

2009-04-28T14:48:00.000-07:00

Earth Day Calendar

2009-04-22T16:01:00.000-07:00

April 22 was Earth Day, but the observances continue:

Thurs Apr 23, 9:30-11:30 AM: Public forum, "Bridgeport’s Environment: What is being done, what you can do" with Atty General Richard Blumenthal, Mayor Bill Finch, and others. Housatonic Community College Event Center at Beacon Hall (2nd floor), 900 Lafayette Blvd, Bridgeport. Contact Dave Koch, dkoch@hcc.commnet.edu - http://www.hcc.commnet.edu/events/earthWeeks

Thurs April 23, 6-8pm: "Speaking of Green": Green Heat talk by John Ruhnke, president of JR's Comfortable Heat. He will discuss radiant floor heating and solar and geothermal heating. The Center for Green Building, 3380 Fairfield Ave, Bridgeport, 382-0774 - http://www.centerforgreenbuilding.com

Sat Apr 25, 12:30-5:30 PM: Earth Day Symposium: "Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream." By donation, Unitarian Universalist Society, 20 Forest St, Stamford. Contact Laura, 840-1979 - http://awakeningthedreamer.org -
http://www.uusis.org

Sat Apr 25, 11-4: Green Earth Fair at Earthplace, 10 Woodside Ln, Westport, $5. 227-7253, greenearthfair@gmail.com - http://www.earthplace.org/calendar

Thurs Apr 30, 10-2: Green Fair: An Earth Day Celebration. Housatonic Community College, 900 Lafayette Blvd, Bridgeport. Contact LBayusik@hcc.commnet.edu, 332-5058 - http://www.hcc.commnet.edu/events/earthWeeks

Thurs Apr 30, 12-1:30 PM: "Green Building & Land Use Regs: What You Need to Know." Soundwaters talk by Gregory S. Sampson, attorney specializing in land-use and environmental law. Robinson & Cole, 1055 Washington Blvd., Stamford. RSVP soundbusiness@soundwaters.org, 406-3335 - http://www.soundwaters.org/busenv

Sat May 2, 12-4 PM: EcoChic Wedding & Home Show. Hotel Chesterfield, 1404 Shippan Ave, Stamford. $20 tickets. Contact: info@ctgreenscene.com,
470-8020 - http://www.greenweddingscene.com

Mon May 4, 5:30-7:30 PM: Union of Concerned Scientists president Kevin Knobloch talks about bringing current science to bear on shaping U.S. climate policies. Doubletree Hotel, 789 Connecticut Ave, Norwalk. RSVP at
http://www.ucsusa.org/forms/ucs-norwalk-ct-member-event.html

Tues May 5, 6-8 PM: Town of Fairfield GreenDrinks at Beach Cafe, 1270 Post Rd, Fairfield. 536-4695 - http://www.fairfieldgreenteam.org

Wed May 6, 6-8 PM: Norwalk GreenDrinks at Pirate Restaurant, 7 Wall St, Norwalk. 227-2065

Sat May 9, 9:30-3: Fairfield’s Earth Day Celebration at Fairfield Warde High School. Contact: ffldearthday@aol.com -
http://fairfieldearthday.wordpress.com

Sat May 16, 11-3: Norwalk-Wilton Tree Festival, Cranbury Park, Norwalk. 854-3200, info@ NorwalkTreeAlliance.org - http://www.norwalktreealliance.org

Thurs May 28, 2-9 PM: Sustainable Gardening Expo. Stamford Govt Center, 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford. A project of Sustainable Stamford, in cooperation with Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens, Mill River Collaborative, and Stamford Museum Nature & Center. Contact Erin McKenna, City of Stamford Land Use Bureau, 977-4715, emckenna@ci.stamford.ct.us -
http://sustainablegardeningexpo.eventbrite.com

UFO Lands In Bridgeport

2009-03-26T09:18:00.000-07:00

Austin W. Mather Theatre - Bridgeport, CT (Photo: Jon Nowinski)

The other day while sitting in the Aquarium, someone walked in looking for a friend. He worked on rigging the solar stage at the Gathering of the Vibes. He had a strange story to tell. It seems one year he had been invited to a mysterious sonic and robotic event inside a UFO-shaped building not far from Seaside Park, where the Vibes are held.

I know the University of Bridgeport campus well, having been there many times, to the WPKN radio station or the library. I remembered seeing an odd shaped building, always wondered what it was, never paid much attention, so this got me curious. I asked Jon Nowinski of SRGA to join me on a field trip to investigate.

This UFO-shaped protusion is annex to the Arnold Bernhard Center at 84 Iranistan Avenue, over looking Long Island Sound. It's part of the UB School of Arts and Sciences building. The art gallery inside is currently featuring a very interesting avant-garde international graphic design exhibition.

I inquired and discovered the Austin W. Mather theatre was built back in 1980... but "beleive it or not!" closed shortly after in 1981 when the City of Bridgeport passed an ordinance mandating all public buildings required two fire emergency exits. Yes, my friends... this amazing looking tourist roadside attraction, has been boarded up for 28 years!!! Isn't that nuts? They never built a second exit, they just left it the way it was, locked the doors and threw away the key.

Would seem to be a no brainer. Anyone who has ever seen a plane release its passengers from the rear, or your average b-sci-fi UFO flick, knows exactly where the ramp needs to go, right where I'm pointing in the above photo!

I started speculating wildly as to what may have caused this to happen. Back in the 70's Bridgeport was a Sikorsky company town! Their engineers would use the Bridgeport Public Library Science & Technology room where hundreds of industry trade journals and thousands of technical books made it one of the best engineering reference library in the North East.

The Connecticut Inventors Club met there once a month. I was a member. I attended often. The Science & Technology room was also home of the largest selection of UFO-related titles I'd ever laid my eyes on... rows and rows of UFO books, filled with photographs, much I had never seen before or seen since.

It made sense, Sikorsky didn't want to leave any rocks unturned. Old man Sikorsky wanted to build the best possible vertical take-off aircraft possible. So he had his people study everything, no matter how far fetched, for ideas and inspiration, from the flight of insects, to UFO flying pattern reports.

Sikorsky had originally been invited to set up shop in Connecticut by Howard Hughes himself, who brought him over from France, and became his first customer. Then the old visionary died, and United Technologies bought Sikorsky. I suppose in their grand wisdom, decided much of the material and topics on display at the "public" library may have been a little too sensitive for national security. So they took all their stuff back, closed down the room, in essence ripping the heart out of the community.

I suspect the Austin W. Mather Theatre may have fallen victim to the pull out by Sikorsky from its interaction with the City. This UFO-shaped building may have been built as a testament to avionics and aeronautics, a piercing arrow into a bold new future of flying ships. So what happened?

(Design: Mariko Mori/Photo: Geekologie)

Dirty F***** Hippies!

2009-03-23T05:21:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Dandelion Salad

Center for Green Building Speaking of Green Series

2009-03-12T10:24:00.000-07:00

Center for Green Building Presents:

Speaking of Green

The Center for Green Building is proud to present our Spring 2009 Speaking of Green Series that will cover the many faces of the evolving environmental movement. Every Thursday evening, from 6pm-8pm, we will be hosting a free workshop, seminar, discussion or movie screening that will be accompanied by an industry professional guest speaker.

All are welcome!

March 12, 6-8pm
3380 Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06605
(203) 382-0774

Our next Speaking of Green topic will be:

Solar Energy:
Presented by Carolyn Humphreys

Carolyn is a Photovoltaic System Designer at Sunlight Solar. She will be speaking about solar possibilities and the new leasing program. Carolyn has been speaking across the state to get the message about solar energy out to consumers as well as educate the general public about this wonderful opportunity for clean and green energy.

Some future issues that will be focused on are:

Wind Power, Public Transportation, Environmental Stewardship, Nutrition and much more. We look forward to seeing you at the Center for Green Building!

Please call our showroom or check our events page on our website for updates. Feel free to forward this to your friends.

www.centerforgreenbuilding.com

Norwalk's Thinking Green Fri Feb 27 NCC

2009-02-16T08:49:00.000-08:00

Think Green is coming to Norwalk, thanks to a program of the Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber's Leadership Institute held its graduation breakfast on Wednesday morning at the Dolce Norwalk Center, and it was announced that the 17 participants have put together Think Green, an event that will feature several exhibitors that will highlight conservation and environmental measures.

Think Green will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. on Friday Feb. 27 at Norwalk Community College.

The Leadership Institute, which began in 1981, is a Chamber program designed for Norwalk's new and up-and-coming business and community leaders. The nine-week program focuses on a variety of topics -- such as local government, economic development, media and education -- to help prepare the individuals for leaderships roles. Local prominent business people lead the weekly sessions.

The cornerstone of the institute is a project that the participants work on together. Historically, the end results of the projects have been reports given during the graduation event. Last year the Chamber changed the criteria of the projects to have tangible results at the end of the program.

This year all 17 participants worked on a single project, Think Green.

"We wanted them to focus on an activity that would be beneficial to businesses and the people of the city. We wanted an all-encompassing project," said Tony Izzo, site director at Northrop Grumman Norden Systems and chairman of the Leadership Institute. "All of the members played an active role and they did an outstanding job. It's a good project that will help everybody out. We gave them very little direction at the beginning."

Think Green will be free of charge and open to the public. The exhibitors, most of whom are already lined up, will be charged a small fee, which will be donated to a local school. The list of exhibitors include South Norwalk Electric and Water Co., Green Demolitions, Aitoro, iPark, and General Electric.

Brian Griffin, vice president of the Greater Norwalk Chamber of Commerce, was impressed with this year's Leadership Institute participants.

"We gave them a vague description of what we wanted and they took it upon themselves to develop it and put it together," he said. "Even though they've graduated, they'll stay in touch and keep working on it until the expo. This (Think Green) is something we hope to continue doing every year or every other year."

This story is from The Hour, a Norwalk, CT, newspaper... Click
http://www.thehour.com/story/461248 to read the complete article on their website.

Nuke Sub Crash Raises Concerns

2009-02-16T08:14:00.000-08:00

A recent collision between two nuclear submarines in the Atlantic Ocean has raised concerns among anti-nuclear organizations.

In the incident that took place earlier this month involved British and French submarines that were undergoing exercises. Neither sub suffered any heavy damage, and there was no loss in containment of the nuclear material on board.

The HMS Vanguard (see photo) is one of Britain's four nuclear powered subs. She was launched in 1994 and holds 16 nuclear-armed Trident missiles. The French's Le Triomphant was launched in 1997 and also carries 16 nuclear missiles.

This is not the first accident to involve nuclear submarines, and that safety record is a major concern for anti-nuclear activists. When the safety issues from the nuclear submarine service are coupled with those involving nuclear reactors, the negatives seem to outweigh the positives. A disaster involving one of the land-based nuclear plants, or a sub-based platform, would be disastrous.

To date there are six nuclear submarines that have sunk in incidents. Two were American and four were Russian. There have been 14 incidents involving radiation issues from on board nuclear reactors. And, of course, that does not account for the instances that were not leaked or released to the public.

This is an issue of major concern here in Connecticut. First, we are home to General Electric, suppliers of nearly all nuclear weapons and power plants to the U.S. Navy. We also have the Electric Boat Company, which builds the latest nuclear subs for the Navy based in Groton, CT. And last, but not least, our nuclear safety concerns involve both the Indian Point and Millstone plants. A breakdown in any one of these would be catastrophic for those living nearby, and we are very much in Ground Zero.

Add your comments to the discussion at Another Oops -- British, French nuclear subs collide in Atlantic

The Aquarium Starting to Take Shape

2009-01-17T08:10:00.000-08:00

The Aquarium space for the Environmental Library Fund collection is starting to take shape. Each day more books are being moved from storage and put on the shelves. We're trying to keep regular business hours from noon to five, or by appointment. 10 Knight Street, Norwalk. Just call: 203-227-2065.

Going Green in New Canaan

2009-01-09T09:56:00.000-08:00

Some of you may know Etta Kantor, who has been driving a waste-vegetable-oil (WVO) car for several years and giving demonstrations at schools. Now she is building a green home in New Canaan and aiming for a LEED Platinum rating. It uses solar panels and a wood-pellet stove, recycled building materials as well as Forest Stewardship Council certified lumber, and the grounds will be irrigated with captured rainwater and fertilized from composting toilets. She will plant fruit and nut trees, and she hopes to donate the surplus harvest to food banks.

Read more about the Kantors' home in the New Canaan News story "The Greenest House in Town."

In fact, this issue of the New Canaan News is dedicated to green initiatives. You can read about another local home where "Family Installs Geothermal Heat," a general survey about how "Some residents are embracing green homes," and the weekly editorial, "Going Green in New Canaan." There's also an announcement (not online) about Deirdre Imus, who will give a public talk on greening our schools at Greens Farms Academy in Westport on Wednesday, January 14, at 7 PM.

The ELF library will soon be open...

2008-12-25T08:19:00.000-08:00

There's a soft launch January 7th. All are welcome. But delays, not the least of which is me in bed stuck with the flu for a week, has put everything off schedule... But hang in there, we're almost there. Merry Christmas.

Blog, Baby, Blog!

2008-12-19T16:44:00.001-08:00

It was time to start a Greenburbs blog... seems someone already has www.greenburbs.blogspot.com so I picked www.fairfieldcountygreenburbs.blogspot.com

We're looking for writers...