Pouder Design Group

04/06/2025

Excited to have this project we designed several years ago with StudioRAI Architects featured in Apple TV's show Your Friends and Neighbors as Nick Brandes' house

15/11/2024

01/10/2024

11/03/2024

Kent Land Trust is hiring a Kelly Alisha Tobin Intern to join our team!

To find out more about this opportunity visit:
https://bit.ly/KATIntern

Each summer, the Kent Land Trust offers a paid college internship honoring Kelly Alisha Tobin. This conservation-focused program fosters personal and professional growth through hands-on experiences not typically available in an academic setting. KLT has been fortunate to work with interns whose work has had a meaningful impact, both on their own growth and on KLT’s mission. We are proud to share that several KLT’s interns have gone on to further study and work in the conservation field.

Please share this post to get the word out.

Kent CT Chamber of Commerce Town of Kent,CT Connecticut Land Conservation Council

01/03/2024

Great opportunity with a cutting-edge conservation group making a real difference in New England!

Join our team! Are you:

🌳 Enthusiastic about environmental issues?
🌳 Great with communication and organizational skills?
🌳 Eager to contribute to meaningful conservation efforts in the face of the climate crisis?

If so, we want you! Apply today:https://hvatoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Conservation-Projects-Coordinator-Full-Time-v2.pdf

19/12/2021

in 1980, STORM KING MOUNTAIN WAS SAVED! Scenic Hudson was established to protect the mountain, and 41 years ago Con Edison signed a settlement resolving to abandon their planned hydroelectric plant at the site. The agreement marked the culmination of a successful 17-year Storm King Campaign, conserving the iconic northern gateway to the Hudson Highlands.
📷: View of Storm King Mountain from Breakneck Ridge / Photo by via Instagram

09/07/2021

Precisely setting 30 and 40 ton boulders with this team is just another day at the office.

07/06/2021

So, I was checking my voicemail this morning and there was one from a caller who said that she had her trees sprayed for caterpillars – trees occupied by three bird feeders - and now, she is upset that there are no birds at all for her to watch. She wonders if the spray could possibly have something to do with it. (Yes, spraying pesticides on your trees will have an effect on the songbirds.)

It is not uncommon for us to get inquiries such as these, and it is with great frustration and sadness that we often are faced with educating people after the damage has been done. So, please let me take a moment to reach out to our Facebook friends and family and be proactive about this topic.

All pesticides are designed to kill. Some are very targeted, such as B.T. (Bacillus thuringiensis) which primarily affects Lepidopterans (moths and butterflies), but most pesticides are broad and indiscriminate. When you make the choice to treat your house or landscape with rodenticides or grub treatment or mosquito foggers or any other pesticide treatment, you have an intent of ridding yourself of a specific creature that you find distasteful.

However, nothing in nature exists in a vacuum. Everything is connected. When you affect one population, it has a ripple effect across the populations that depend upon and coexist with it.

When you spray insecticide, for instance, it does not just kill the ‘bugs’ you don’t like, but kills all insects, including honeybees, butterflies, and ladybugs. Likewise, when you spray, the insects do not simply disappear off the face of the earth. Many live a short time before they perish. In this time, they may be consumed by natural predators, like songbirds, small mammals, and other insects.

Pesticides may have direct toxicity to these animals or may build up in their fat or blood and cause illness or death over time. Even so-called “green” chemicals are still intended to kill, and though they may be derived from natural sources or biodegrade quickly, they are still highly toxic to you and other organisms.

Friends, it is so very important in this day and age, with the steady decline of bird populations and the utter devastation of pollinator populations that we humans take a serious, proactive look at the choices we make and the practices we support – either directly or indirectly. It is vital that we do not go blindly into the world, but make ourselves informed and educated about products and practices and about science, industry, and nature.

Here at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, we very much want to help people become educated and able to make informed choices. We are here to answer your questions and point you in the direction of reliable and scientifically accurate information. But we also encourage you to think and question BEFORE you act. Your actions have consequences. Thanks for reading!
(Photo Credit http://www.yorku.ca/bstutch/research.htm)