PRESS RELEASE: Urban Waters Initiative to Hold 2 More Fair Haven Events

New Haven, CT – Save the Sound’s Urban Waters Initiative (UWI) project will hold 2 more free events, Mic at the Mill on August 17, and a Recycled Art Workshop on August 22, as part of this year’s Fair Haven based community program.  On Saturday, August 17, Mic at the Mill will showcase the climate […]

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PRESS RELEASE: AUG 17, “Mic at the Mill” to Showcase Fair Haven Residents’ Climate Stories

New Haven, CT – On August 17, Mic at the Mill will showcase the climate stories of Fair Haven residents. The event, organized by Save the Sound’s Urban Waters Initiative (UWI), Project Drawdown, Women Without Borders, and Semilla Collective, is part of a summer-long series of community happenings in the New Haven neighborhood along the […]

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Fair Haven Community Events Activate UWI Haven and Exchange Park

Red clover, milkweed, and yarrow now grow at the corner of Haven and Exchange Street in Fair Haven. Once an underutilized, abandoned lot in the shadow of English Station, last year this space was transformed into the Mill River Trail Green Infrastructure Park and community rain garden as part of the Urban Waters Initiative project (UWI). […]

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Press Release: Save the Sound Launches Mill River Urban Waters Initiative: Community Outreach, Engagement, and Leadership Program

Fair Haven, CT – A new partnership between environmental and community groups has launched along the Mill River in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven. Save the Sound and nearly a dozen other partners, through the Urban Waters Initiative (UWI) administered by the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP), have initiated […]

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