Friday, April 28, 2017
12 - 1 PM EST
Learn about transit oriented development (TOD) and its potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Connecticut. TOD is a type of community development that can include a mixture of housing, office, retail and/or other amenities integrated into a walkable and sustainable neighborhood, typically located within a half-mile of quality public transportation. A combination of land use and transportation planning, this approach makes transportation more accessible to all, leading to reduced individual car travel and traffic congestion, both of which contribute to local air quality issues and greenhouse gas emissions. Guest speakers will provide participants an overview of TOD strategies, impacts, and opportunities for Connecticut municipalities to access TOD grant funding.
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CLEAR Webinar: Climate Adaptation Legal Questions and Answers
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
2:00 - 3:00 PM EST
This free webinar will provide answers to a number of the questions raised at Legal Issues in the Age of Climate Adaptation, a conference held by UConn CLEAR and and Connecticut Sea Grant's Climate Adaptation Academy in late 2015. The questions, which came from the audience members during the course of a panel discussion with prominent land use attorneys, were reviewed by the Marine Affairs Institute & RI Sea Grant Legal Program at Roger Williams University School of Law. The Legal Program then developed four fact sheets covering the following topics: Property and Permitting Boundaries at the Shoreline, Governmental Tort Liability for Disclosure of Flood Hazard Information, Takings and Coastal Management, and Flood and Erosion Control Structures. The CLEAR/Connecticut Sea Grant climate team will be joined by two attorneys to go over the answers and discuss the issues raised in these fact sheets, including a review of recent court decisions impacting these topics.
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12:30-2:30 pm
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Rome Commons Ballroom
You are invited to this free event that will bring together municipal and state agency staff, UConn faculty, and CIRCA's
Advisory Committee. Posters will highlight the important research, products, and partnerships currently addressing resilience of vulnerable communities along Connecticut's coast and inland waterways to the growing impacts of climate change. Rob Klee, Commissioner of CT DEEP and Jeff Seemann, UConn's Vice President for Research, will also be attending.
This is the new date for the meeting that was postponed, due to snow, on March 10.
Please RSVP by May 1 to
lauren.yaworsky@uconn.edu
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The Connecticut Association of Flood Managers (CAFM),
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - Fairfield: Fairfield Museum and History Center, 370 Beach Road, Fairfield, CT 06824
Thursday, May 4, 2017 - Old Lyme: CT DEEP Marine Headquarters, 333 Ferry Road, Old Lyme, CT 06371
Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region I Boston office will be hosting two floodplain management training sessions for local officials. For more information and details about the workshop, please see the attached flyer.
The same workshop will be repeated on two consecutive days.
Please email RSVP by May 1st to Diane Ifkovic
with your name, title, date of workshop and session(s) you will attend.
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CIRCA & NOAA present Green Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience Training
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Check-in at 8:30 AM
Program runs 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA)
University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus
Marine Science Building
Groton, Connecticut
Join a free training on Introducing Green Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience hosted by CIRCA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management.
Training staff from NOAA and CIRCA will introduce participants to fundamental green infrastructure concepts and practices that can play a critical role in making coastal communities more resilient to natural hazards. The agenda will also feature green infrastructure projects from CIRCA grantees in Stratford and MetroCOG as well as presentations from New Haven, Eastern CT Conservation District, and the University of Connecticut Center for Land Use Education and Research. Through group discussions and activities, participants will learn what they can do to support green infrastructure implementation in their coastal communities.
More info.