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Connecticut Celebrates Clean Water Action's 50th Anniversary
On July 20th, members of the Clean Water Action community joined together to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary. This event, held virtually, had an array of guest speakers reflecting on Clean Water Action’s past victories, memories, and what is to come for the organization’s future. Joining us from Japan, Roger Smith, former Connecticut State Director, was one of the event’s most anticipated guests. Smith, who has been investigating tsunami recovery in the impacted town of Matsushima, Japan, discussed how his work at Clean Water Action led him to his current environmental work in
3 Things I Learned Just by Showing Up
On March 31st this year, Clean Water Action and the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy CT, an advocacy group that aims to protect our children from toxic chemicals, held a press event to voice concerns over the use of recycled tire rubber as a ground cover in playgrounds and urge passing of the bill to ban its use. I saw firsthand the world in which the Coalition works and learned a few things about the legislative process, the science, and the impact of simply showing up to relay my concern. Here are three things I realized:
Showing up is actually not that hard to do. Driving into the CT state