Thirty-five acres of Long Beach West, a barrier beach on the Connecticut shoreline in Stratford, will undergo restoration thanks to funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – in other words stimulus funds.
Since reading about local bats dying off from white nose syndrome we've kept a close eye out for evening bat flights. Earlier this year, we saw none circling above and around our house, but recently we've seen quite a few, as have our neighbors. Can't definitively say the local numbers are smaller than last year, but we definitely don't have more bats flitting around. Considering the dire reports of white nose syndrome killing off the vast majority of CT bats, we're happy to see any.
An article in the New York Times offers some interesting food for thought – reflections on 40 years of Earth Days and the current thoughts from Stewart Brand. Those as old and older than I might remember that name as the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog way back in 1968. Today some versions of the Whole Earth Catalog are available online, right next to Brand's more recent works. I'll date myself by revealing I had a copy of the Spring 1969 issue and the Last Whole Earth Catalog from June 1971. Now, with four decades of environmental thinking under his belt, Brand has changed his positions from previous stances – might make for lively dinner table conversation.
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