Who is saving the environment in Greenwich? The Green Team

While many residents are involved in conservation and environmental issues, The Greenwich Citizen asked Denise Savageau, director of the Town's Conservation Commission, to identify some of the `movers and shakers' active in addressing these challenges -- what Greenwich Citizen is dubbing "The Green Team."

Savageau's list includes Cheryl Dunson, president of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut and a founding board member of the Greenwich Tree Conservancy (GTC).

Click here for the full article by Anne Semmes.

A founding board member of the Greenwich Tree Conservancy, Cheryl Dunson, is focused on programs "relating to preserving and enhancing the tree and forest resources of Greenwich." Dunson also is president of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut. 
Photo: Anne W. Semmes / CT 

In December, the New Haven Register introduced the  “Citizens Agenda,” a voter-focused election project.

The Register, along with its sister papers the Middletown Press, Register Citizen in Torrington and Litchfield County Times, has been polling readers about the issues that matter most to them, to ensure that candidates in Senate and congressional races address them during the 2012 election cycle. 

The League of Women Voters of Connecticut sent a representative, Jean Rabinow, to the Register's first public forum at the New Haven Free Public Library, held Jan. 25.

Poll respondents have identified the economy as the most important issue to date, followed by the unemployment rate, taxation, national debt, health care and financial industry/banking reform. 

Click here to read the full New Haven Register article by Angela Carter . 

Southern Fairfield County chapters of the League of Women Voters and tree-focused groups will sponsor an educational forum “Power Struggle: Balancing the Needs of People, Power and Trees” on Tuesday, February 28 from 7:00-9:00 PM at the Darien Town Hall (snow date March 7).  The forum will consist of  talks by five stakeholders:

• Joe McGee - Chair, Governor's Two Storm Panel 
  
• Representative TBD- CL&P
  
• Jonathan Schrag, Deputy Commissioner for Energy of the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; 
  
• Eric Hammerling, Executive Director of the CT Forest and Park Association
  
• Chris Roy, Engineering & Operations Manager of Concord Light Plant,from the Concord, Mass. Municipal Light Plant,  a municipality that has buried their power wires underground.
  

Kay Maxwell, former president of the League of Women Voters of the United States, will moderate.

All speakers will address from their perspectives this all- important issue of powers outages, past and future, and what can be done to reduce their frequency and duration. Audience Q&A will follow their presentations. The goal of this timely forum is to inform Connecticut residents on all aspects of this continuing problem that so profoundly affects us. The Connecticut General Assembly legislative session opens today and will be taking up legislation designed to address the reliability of our power supply. Residents will gain information and insight so that they can form educated opinions on the proposed solutions. 
 
Handouts will be available at the forum including contact information of state officials so the attendees, armed with accurate information, can voice their opinions and suggestions based on what they learned at the forum.
 
This forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, and Stamford, and Greenwich Tree Conservancy, Fairfield Forestry Committee, Stamford Tree Foundation and the Tree Conservancy of Darien. 
 
We encourage all to attend so they can learn and influence the proposed solutions to these power outages. 

Lisa Bogan of the Connecticut League of Women Voters, recognized as an expert on school start times  and a former vice-chairperson of the Wilton (CT) Board of Education, addressed a Barrington, RI audience on Jan. 26.

Read the full Barrington Patch article here.