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Sustainable Fairfield Blog
Waste Not: SFTF Offers Household Tips on Reducing Your Trash Stream, Building Your Recycling Stream
The last time you threw that banana peel or cereal box into your kitchen trash bin, did you maybe wonder exactly how much trash you and your household generate every year? Well, the Sustainable Fairfield Task Force (SFTF) has “the receipts” – and the numbers are...
Greening Our Town and Our Planet
Earth Day Celebration Features Family-Friendly Activities The Town of Fairfield’s annual Earth Day celebration is more than just one day! It kicks off with a community clean-up and free, informative workshops on composting and recycling on Friday, April 22. On...
Growing season is here- join a CSA!
Certified organic produce in the fields at Stoneledge Farm, Orange County, NYhttp://www.stoneledge.farm The lengthening spring days mark the start of the growing season here in the northeast- which is an exciting, hopeful time for local farms and the people who...
A More “Constructive” Approach for Re-Purposing Fairfield’s Glass Recyclables
There’s no question that, for environmentally minded households, being able to toss all kinds of recyclables into the same bin for pick-up –so called “single stream recycling”– has made recycling even easier. But the convenience has come with a catch — and Fairfield residents will now have an opportunity to help fix a problem.
No More Anxiety!
By Shawn O’Sullivan Connecticut is proving that you can get there from here… in an EV. On Oct. 27, Live Green dropped a new pin on CT’s EV Roadmap: the designation of Route 7 as an EV Corridor, with a celebration and ribbon cutting held at Fodor Farm in Norwalk. On...
Pedestrians Rule
According to CT's Department of Transportation, over the past five years Connecticut has averaged about 58 pedestrian fatalities annually. Thanks to An Act Concerning Pedestrian Safety, new state legislation that went into effect on October 1st, our state is...
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