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Sustainability + The Smithsonian Institution
I’m excited to announce that my work “Crimes Against Nature 4 Money” made from locally discarded plastics and plywood saved from the landfill and beaches has been chosen for the upcoming exhibition “Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined” at the Kay Daugherty Gallery within Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in Association with Smithsonian Institution. Exhibition Dates:• February 9, 2024…
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A Sound Education through Environmental Art during the Bridgeport Art Trail
We were thrilled to host hundreds of visitors during the 2023 edition of AmFab Open Studios as part of the Bridgeport Art Trail. A weekend full of great conversations about protecting Long Island Sound which typically begins with questions about my work made from reclaimed ocean plastics and plastics toys that I rescue from becoming part…
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Save the Sound Beach Clean Up
When Sound On Sound “knocked us out of the park” last week due to privatizing a good chunk of the beach and selling the parking spaces all the way to the jetty for our long-planned Save the Sound clean-up at Seaside Park, we moved it to October 8th. When we found out there was another…
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March to End Fossil Fuels New York
Over 75,000 citizens concerned about the environment attended the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 17th. We were proud to participate in the largest climate mobilization since the start of the pandemic and to meet like-minded others from Beyond Plastics and The Climate Reality Project before, during and after — two of the growing number…
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Governor Signs New Bill Banning Horseshoe Crab Harvesting in Connecticut
Governor Ned Lamont held a bill signing ceremony at Short Beach in Stratford on Wednesday, August 9th, for legislation implementing a ban on horseshoe crab harvesting from Connecticut waters (Public Act 23-6). We were thrilled to be on the scene for this momentous event giving horseshoe crabs a fighting chance to come back from what…
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Social (Media) Justice for Horseshoe Crabs at Seaside Park
We were happy to see the Connecticut Post sponsored ad featuring our horseshoe crab story over the holiday weekend.
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CT DEEP horseshoe crab protections
Thanks again to Brian Lockhart of the Connecticut Post for this great followup to the May 24th article about horseshoe crab protection along the Connecticut shoreline. It seems that the City of Bridgeport was not aware of the laws that protect Connecticut shoreline wildlife. “More specifically, according to Connecticut’s regulations, using motorized equipment to groom…
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CT Post Takes Note of Horseshoe Crabs
Thank you to Brian Lockhart of the Connecticut Post and fellow environmentalist Madeline Dennis, who alerted him to my photos and social media stories about the horseshoe crabs being crushed by a tractor pulling a beach rake at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut beginning on May 19th. Thanks also to Bill Lucey for this acknowledgement:…
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Project Limulus Official!
Thanks to Jo-Marie Kasinak, Director of Project Limulus at Sacred Heart University for providing me with the training and tools to tag and track horseshoe crabs at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. We met with her team of students at Stratford Point today where the horseshoe crabs were plentiful. I got started soon after at…
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Happy Biodiversity Day!
The good news about this morning was finding a live tagged horseshoe crab at Seaside Park and returning him to safe waters, then reporting the tag via fws.gov/crabtag — thanks to Karl for spotting him in the distance! Sometimes the tags have a patina on them, but are usually easily scraped clean with a fingernail…