Dr. Grymm's Steampunk Bizarre

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!

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The Sad Tale of the Lost Frisbees

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

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!

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

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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!!!

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

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."