Press Release from the Town of Chester • 10/13/2023 Chester is among the Connecticut municipalities to be recognized this year for achieving Sustainable CT certification. Sustainable CT is a statewide initiative that inspires and supports communities to become more...
By Alex Putterman, CT Insider, July 30, 2023 Over more than five decades in the Blue Hills neighborhood of Hartford, Victoria Fennell has watched the floods grow worse and worse.Year after year, water seeps into homes, residents incur thousands of dollars in property...
By Cara Buckley, The New York Times, July 12, 2023(Photo: John Underwood/Purdue University) Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it. In one green-gloved hand, a...
By Luther Turmelle, CT Insider, 7/7/23 (Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media) Connecticut residents have the fourth most expensive overall energy bills in the country, with total energy costs of $593 per month, according to a new study....
By Rebecca Hersher, CT Public Radio, June 1 2023 (photo courtesy of CT Mirror) The Atlantic hurricane season begins today. This year’s storms will arrive as millions of people are still recovering from years of back-to-back hurricane devastation, from Texas all...
By Emily DiSalvo, Greenwich Time, May 3 2023 (Photo credit: Emily DiSalvo/ Hearst Connecticut Media) HARTFORD — Every spring, as the snow melts in the north, the Connecticut River swells and spills onto the land around it. Connecticut residents are used to it. Many...
By John Moritz, CT Insider, May 3, 2023 (Photo credit: File photo / Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media) A bill that would empower Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to take a heavier hand in regulating climate-altering carbon emissions is in jeopardy this week...
By Jan Ellen Spiegel / CT Mirror May 1, 2023 (Photo credit: Hartford Courant) The not-quite-finished home on Rainbow Road, not far from Bradley Airport in Windsor, has the unmistakable scent of fresh paint. The trim four-bedroom sits in a row with three other...
By Lisa Prevost, April 26, 2023, New York Times (Photo credit: Allegra Anderson for The New York Times) By the time they decided they were ready to start a family a couple of years ago, Patrick and Sophie Sayre had become disillusioned with life in Los Angeles. So...
By Yahoo! Finance, April 25, 2023 As the cost of living continues to increase, maintaining retirement savings has become more challenging. According to a survey conducted by U.S. News, 41% of Americans who were saving for retirement had to temporarily stop...
By Tricia Ennis, February 19, 2023, CT Insider Ten years ago, Super Storm Sandy slammed into the East Coast, damaging homes, flooding neighborhoods, and knocking out critical infrastructure across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Ten-foot storm surges pushed...
In architecture, new materials rarely emerge. For centuries, wood, masonry, and concrete formed the basis for most structures on Earth. In the 1880s, adoption of the steel frame changed architecture forever. Steel allowed architects to design taller buildings with...
By CNBC, Feb 17, 2023 The network of transmission lines that carry electricity across the U.S. is old and not set up to meet the anticipated demand for clean energy sources like wind and solar. Currently, electricity generation results in 32% of carbon dioxide...
By Rich Scinto, Patch, Nov 28, 2022 Gov. Ned Lamont announced a new slew of relief measures for high electricity and home heating costs. CONNECTICUT — Gov. Ned Lamont announced a slew of measures aimed to provide Connecticut families with some relief from high...
By Chris Dehnel, Patch, Nov 18, 2022 Skyrocketing supply rates could translate into much higher electric bills in 2023 for Connecticut residents. (Chris Dehnel/Patch) CONNECTICUT — Electric rates for standard service could go up by more than $80 a month for power...
By Erica Moser, The Day, October 22, 2022 Vincent Ukleja orders heating oil for his Quaker Hill home when his tank is down to half full, and when he saw the price for a delivery Monday, he was shocked. With oil at $5.19 per gallon, he spent $601. “We’re on a fixed...
DANA BELTAJI, Associated Press Oct. 18, 2022 How much has the climate changed already? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin) Relentless drought in China, East Africa, the U.S. West and northern Mexico, devastating floods in Pakistan and Kentucky, scorching heat waves in...
By Len Beshtoff, NBC CT, September 23, 2022 It’s estimated our state produced more than 1000 GW (gigawatts) of solar energy, and 14 GW of wind power last year, according to a recent report by an organization called Climate Central. But is that a lot or a little?...
By Alexander Soule, Middletown Press, September 20, 2022 New headquarters of “luxury” vinyl tile supplier HMTX, one of the “greenest” buildings in Connecticut. August 20, 2022, Norwalk, Conn (Photo: H John Voorhees III/Hearst Connecticut Media)...
By Jan Ellen Spiegel, CT Mirror, Aug 12, 2022 As worldwide heat, drought and extreme storms this summer punctuate the reality of climate change, Connecticut continues to wrestle with its reality that it is falling behind on its goals to reduce the carbon emissions...
Adding insulation to an older home improves its energy conservation and provides greater comfort. By Anne Surchin, Southampton Press, July 13, 2022 While looking for a good definition of a deep energy retrofit (DER) I started to feel a little like Alice in Wonderland,...
By Matthew Brown And Amy Beth Hanson, AP, July 7, 2022 A house sits in Rock Creek after floodwaters washed away a road and a bridge in Red Lodge, Mont., on June 15, 2022. As cleanup from historic floods at Yellowstone National Park grinds on, climate experts and...
Yale School of Architecture grad students watch as a roof panel held by a crane is positioned at a Jim Vlock Building Project for Columbus House on Adeline Street in New Haven, Conn. on August 8, 2017.Photo: Arnold Gold/Hearst Connecticut Media By Duo...
By Freida Frisaro, AP News, June 1, 2022 National Park Service, via AP, File On this first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials are launching a new initiative to modernize building codes so that communities can be more resilient to hurricanes,...
Photo: Jan Ellen Spiegel AP News, April 29, 2022 Connecticut lawmakers voted Thursday to officially set a target of 2040 for having a carbon-free electricity supply, despite skepticism about whether the state can meet that goal and whether ratepayers can afford the...
(Photo: AP Photo / Felipe Dana) By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN, AP News, April 4, 2022 Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists...
By Rand Richard, Connecticut Magazine, March 30, 2022. Photo by Ned Gerard. Star developer Bruce Becker is known for his eco-friendly projects across the Northeast. The architect’s transformation of New Haven’s iconic Pirelli building into the country’s first...
By Nate Berg, Fast Company, March 9, 2022 Some buildings have withstood the test of time. After centuries or even millennia, they’ve remained structurally sound, revered as inhabitable spaces of human history and innovation. Some are still even in use today, many...
By Kelly Walowski, GB&D Magazine, February 25, 2022 The Indoor Air Hygiene Institute estimates that poor indoor air quality costs the US economy $10 billion annually. Whether it is through missed days at work, lower productivity rates, or any number of the many...
By Aya Batrawy, AP News, February 23, 2022 Dubai has unveiled an architecturally stunning new museum that envisions what the world could look like 50 years from today. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) Dubai will open the doors Friday to an architecturally stunning building...
By Aliya Uteuova, The Gaurdian, February 24, 2022 (Resident manager Rich Morris opens a window in the laundry room at the Harry T Nance Apartments. The windows meet the passive house standards. Photo: Danielle Amy) The first night Stephanie Silva spent at her new...
The Old Holloway Passivhaus home in Herefordshire, England. Photograph: Juraj Mikurcik By Donna Ferguson, The Gaurdian, February 21, 2022 Soaring gas prices have been making headlines but for some households heating bills are nowhere near reaching record highs. These...
By CT Mirror Contributor, The CT Mirror, October 25, 2021 Damage from Storm Irene in East Haven. Jan Ellen Spiegel / CTMirror.org It was 10 years ago, but when Lori Mathieu thinks about extreme weather events, she remembers Hurricane Irene.“Which was a hurricane that...
By Seth Borenstein, AP News, February 15, 2022 (As high tide laps against the sea wall tourist walk down the Battery in Charleston, S.C. Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. According to a U.S. federal report released on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, seas lapping against America’s...
By Seth Borenstein, AP News, February 15, 2022 (AP Photo/Josh Edelson, File) The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds....
By John Gendall, November 18, 2021, Architectural Digest Buildings account for 35% of greenhouse gasses globally, so architects must turn to electrification as an alternative to gas-powered architecture Photo: Getty Images As Hurricane Ida slowly went back out to sea...
By Amy McDermott, PNAS, February 15, 2022 Trends in some regions are clear, but insect biology, climate quirks, and public health preparedness will determine whether outbreaks occur. (Field crews at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station track the diversity...
By Dawn Hammon, Inhabitat, 1/19/22 (Images via Mighty Buildings) Industries around the world are constantly innovating, however, the construction industry has been slow to adopt new technologies. Mighty Buildings is changing all that with the development of a...
By Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, July 6, 2021 Governor Ned Lamont signs a new climate law that will increase the ability of Connecticut’s communities to transition from planning climate change adaption projects to implementing them. Sen. Christine...
By Elaina Hancock, UCONN Today, February 8, 2022 A new report lays out the science projecting Connecticut’s hotter, more uncertain future as the climate changes. A look into the near-future for Connecticut reveals a state where heat waves are more common,...
By Jennifer Riggins, December 29, 2021, The New Stack The next year, 2022, will be a turning point for the Earth. Either we proactively, dramatically cut our carbon emissions or extreme world events as a result of global heating will continue to cause devastation. The...
By Eliza Fawcett and Alex PuttermanHartford Courant |Nov 04, 2021 Photograph by Mark Mirko | mmirko@courant.com (Mark Mirko/The Hartford Courant) GROTON — Along the banks of the Mystic River in Groton, Zell Steever points to landmarks he doesn’t expect to survive...
By Lloyd Alter, Published November 2, 2021, Tree Hugger For years on Treehugger, we have written in praise of the dumb box, calling for simplicity of form and for logical, straightforward, efficient building plans. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s longtime...
By Rachel Theisman, December 13, 2021, NPR Dozens of tornadoes — including one massive storm that tore through more than 200 miles — struck Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi on Friday and Saturday, killing at least 14 people in...
More developers are bringing contemporary, sustainable design to the Hudson Valley and rural Connecticut. By Jane Margolies, New York Times, August 11, 2020 Rendering of a sample home for the upcoming Vita Foras development in Greene County, N.Y.Credit… Recent...
By Roberta Boscolo, Oct 12 2021, ILLUMINEM On the 24th of September 2021, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, convened the High-Level Dialogue on Energy (HLDE) to accelerate progress towards achieving access to clean and affordable energy for all (SDG7) and...
By Kate Abnett and Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, Nov 14, 2021 GLASGOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Its ambition was clear: the U.N. climate summit was meant to secure a deal to give the world a chance to avert the worst impacts of climate change by capping global warming...
The US, Australia, Japan, and even Saudi Arabia are aiming for net-zero. Does it mean anything? By Umair Irfan, Oct 29, 2021, VOX Corporations and countries around the world are promising to eliminate their contributions to climate change. But many of their targets...
Photo: Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant By Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, July 27, 2021 For officials in the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, meteorologists and physicians, the severity of the smoke traveling over Connecticut from Western...
By David Adam, September 21, 2021, Nature The 1980s were a puzzling time for would-be parents in Singapore. The government initially told them to “Stop-at-Two” and backed up the policy with a series of measures to deter couples from having three or more children. It...
