Our next film in the Elements Environmental Film series airs
tonight!
Comfort Zone explores what climate change means in our region, following three ordinary Americans as they grapple with the changes we face.
The film will screen at Middlesex Community College tonight, (Monday April 2nd) at 7:00 PM in Chapman Hall.
Learn more here.
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April 7th: Learn About Birds of Prey at Brainerd Library
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Next Meet Your Greens: April 19th
Our guest this month will be Kealoha Freidenburg of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Professor Freidenburg, an expert on amphibians, will share her expertise on amphibians in suburban environments and wetlands more broadly. It promises to be a hopping good time.
We'll be meeting at Mattabesset Canoe Club, on the Connecticut River, starting at 5.30pm on April19th.
More details on our website.
Also, save the date for upcoming Meet Your Greens: 5/17 and 6/14:
On May 17th,
Juliana Barrett of the Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) will be our guest. (Location TBD)
And on June 14th, we'll board the RiverQuest for our annual Connecticut River cruise Happy Hour.
For those of you not familiar with
Meet Your Greens: Middletown Green Drinks, this monthly event provides networking opportunities for anyone who is interested in making connections and exchanging news about emerging environmental issues to help keep Lower Connecticut River Valley communities green and growing. An official location of Green Drinks International, this informal monthly gathering of people drawn from the community, nonprofit groups and the business world offers time to brainstorm ideas and plant seeds for collaboration. All are welcome and there is no admission fee, unless otherwise noted. For more information, please visit our website.
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Report from our 2018 Symposium
We were all worried that the changing weather patterns were going to derail our symposium on changing weather patterns, but in the end the snow storm was minor and more than 40 people joined us to discuss low-impact development (LID).
Speakers discussed what we can learn from successful projects including the Jordan Cove subdivision, LID projects at UConn, and stormwater management strategies in New Haven. David Sousa of CDM Smith also reinforced the important point that the best way to minimize impact is through design. A walkable, mixed-use building is going to reduce the need for paved areas, which is far easier than adding pervious pavement and bioswales after the fact.
For those who would like to download the Presentations, they are available on our website here.
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Meet Our Grantees: Brainerd Library
With the Connecticut River running just outside the property, Brainerd Library has prioritized educating patrons about the history and importance of the river. Through a series of lectures and workshops at the library, supported in part by a grant from the Rockfall Foundation, Brainerd will highlight the variety and diversity of wildlife, ecology, and plant life in the Connecticut River watershed and help inspire individuals to advocate for the care of this important region.
The workshops include presentations on the history, ecology, and geology of the river, edible plants, nature writing, and coming up next, a discussion of birds of prey of the Connecticut River region.
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Tweet, Tweet
If you're not yet following The Rockfall Foundation on Facebook (
@rockfallfoundation) and Twitter (
@RockfallCT), please do. Here we'll share relevant events--ours and other great events in Connecticut--plus a mix of local, regional, and global environmental news. We even "live-tweeted" the symposium.
Please follow along. And remember, with Facebook's recent changes, click on the arrow under following and click "see first" in your news feed so that our updates aren't lost.
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