GreenCircle Awards Presented on Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Avon
Carrie Firestone organized the first Farmington Valley Environmental Festival which was held on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at Thompson Brook School in Avon.
Mary-beth Hart helped establish a recycling program at Roaring Brook School (RBS) in Avon. Mary-beth also serves on the "Green Team" with the mission of finding other ways to "Green Up" the school.

Branford
Lauren Brown is responsible for the construction of the Pond Lily Fishway to restore anadromous fish passage to upstream spawning areas in the West River watershed; and made improvements to public access and educational opportunities at the Long Wharf Preserve adjacent to New Haven Harbor.

Bristol
ESPN, Inc., has converted all of their styrofoam food packaging and cups to compostable options - the ecotainer (made with PLA) and others (manufactured from bagasse) and they are now composting 100% of their food waste generated in the cafeteria and on their campus.

Brookfield
Efficient Lighting and Maintenance, Inc. (ELM) provides energy-saving products and technologies to Connecticut's businesses by retrofitting existing lighting.

Cheshire
Atlantic Inertial Sytems (AIS), Inc., sponsored a Household Hazardous Waste/Universal Waste Collection Earth Day Event.

Chester
Chrisholm Marina has signed on to the Small Business Energy Advantage Program, which has saved them up to 17% on their electric bills.

Danbury
Branson Ultrasonics, Corp., implemented a summertime air conditioning on/off temperature management plan for twenty-one office and manufacturing operations locations within the facility.

Cartus has over 1600 employees commuting to the office daily and realized the need to chamption a carpooling/ride sharing program. Over the last three years Cartus has become a huge proponent of NU-RIDES. There are currently over 400 NU-RIDE members at the Danbury site with over 200 utilizing this program.

The Candlewood Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited undertook a major restoration project of Deep Brook, a distressed Class 1 trout stream in Newtown.

Christopher William Fedge is a boy scout with Troop 52 in Danbury, CT and has completed his Eagle Project. For his project, he worked on a hiking trail located at Tarrywile Park in Danbury, CT. Over 3 days he, with a group of scouts from his troup, removed 1.5 tons of heavy debris, including a car, a pickup truck, washing machines, dryers and a stove which were deposited beside the trail near and at the top of the mountain near the airport beacon.
Spirol International Corporation's Environmental Management System was certified to ISO 14001. The most significant successes of Spirol's Environmental Management System were a 22.67% decrease in Waste Oil disposal resulting from 100% recycling of metal cutting lubricants. In addition, Spirol reduced electricity consumption by 7.78% with the installation of a High Efficient Lighting System equipped with motion detectors in office areas.

Durham
ECO and Boy Scout Troop 27 successfully set up a bottle recycling program at the Durham Fair in September of 2006. They successfully removed around 20,000 beverage containers from the waste stream.

East Windsor
Next Level Recycling (NLR) successfully implemented a recycling program at Fairfield University for their students to recycle batteries and small electronics at 3 locations on their campus.

Enfield
Senior Aerospace Sterling Machine, Co. recently completed their final stage for the 14001 program. The company reduced their chemical inventory and replace any hazardous chemicals with safer and non-toxic materials. The company implemented a mandatory recycling program with amazing results including e-waste.

Farmington
The J.F. Fredericks Tool Co., achieving ISO 14001 certification, the company demonstrates its continued commitment to quality, service and to our environment. This certification supplements their previously awarded ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100:2004 Quality Systems.

Madison
The Madison Land Conservation Trust, have added 16.6 acres to their Ironwoods Preserve which now contains a total of 102 acres. A trail complex has been developed, blazed and maintained in this preserve.

Middletown
Stericycle continues to reduce the amount of mercury going into the Biomedical Waste Stream. This has been accomplished through their Amalgam Mail Back program.

Milford
Schick Manufacturing, Inc. has modified a major manufacturing process to eliminate the use of a solvent containing material. The former process used in excess of 4,000 gallons of solvent per year. In addition, the required roof-top incinerator (thermal after-burner) used as control equipment to treat this material will no longer be necessary. This incinerator used over 8,000,000 cubic of natural gas per year.

New Milford
The Rotary Club of New Milford held its first annual Community Paper Shredding Day. The event provided consumers and businesses the opportunity to spring clean their home and office where they can have their confidential documents shredded by a mobile paper shredding truck.

Last summer the Eliot Pratt Education Center organized and implemented a major restoration project addressing both instream and riparian environmental issues.

Newtown
Charter Communications implemented a videotape recycling program during April 07 to coincide with Earth Day. They collected 7000 tapes, or 2 tons of material which will be recycled. The campaign will be conducted yearly.

Old Saybrook
Saybrook Point Inn & Spa was awarded an Energy Star by E.P.A. on June 14, 2007, for superior energy performance. Saybrook Point Inn & Spa has partnered with Connecticut Audobon Society to place bird sanctuaries on their property.

Salem
Salem Land Trust (SLT) has purchased and will maintain 101 acres of critical unspoiled woodland in Salem, CT. The Litsky parcel, now known as The Darling Road Preserve, provides an essential land bridge for wildlife at the heart of an 8,000-acre forest.

Shelton
Oil Purification Systems, Inc., (OPS), is the developer of the OPS-1, a patented on-board oil refining system that continuously removes the solid and liquid contaminants from engine oil, allowing the engine to run with clean oil 100% of the time.

Simsbury
Jill Paterson produced, filmed, edited, narrated, and starred in four (4) TV shows, called the Green Bean Magazine, that were aired on the public access TV station in Simsbury. These shows provided useful educational information on how to conserve energy, to prevent air pollution, to reduce your carbon footprint, to reduce groundwater and soil pollution, to recycle and compost.

Stratford
EMSAR operated an employee EWASTE (electronics waste) collection site. Cell phones were segregated and sent to RECellular in Michigan where they refurbish, reuse, and responsibly recycle discarded cell phones.

Torrington
Fifteen (15) EMSAR Torrington employees, friends, and family volunteered to pick up trash from the Stillwater Pond boat launch area on August 11, 2007. This was a cooperative venture between EMSAR and the maintenance department of Burr Pond State Park.

O & G Industries, Inc. In coordination with the Friends of Lover's Leap State Park Chairperson, Jeanne Garvey, and O&G Industries, Inc., supplied approximately 1,400 tons of base stone and 100 tons of asphalt for use in the construction of the 40-car parking facility and driveway. The company's donation was instrumental in improving access to the park's many unique features including Falls Bridge, an iron bridge built in 1895, which has been part of the National Register of Historic places since 1976.

Watertown
Philson, Inc., in 2007, sold their 1995 gas powered truck and signed a rental agreement with Ryder for a new 2007 ultra low sulfur diesel fuel truck. This truck has a rating of 10-14 mpg, while the old truck was rated at 5-7 mpg. The new truck meets the 2007 vehicle emissions standards challenge requiring the reduction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons by 50% and particulate matter by 90%. Philson Incorporated conducted a 6th Annual Steelebrook River Clean-up on Saturday, April 21, 2007.

Westport
Alicia Mozian of Westport Conservation Department is an avid volunteer. Her efforts include identifying pollution sources, areas of runoff, monitoring water quality by sampling, securing grants for non-profit monitoring groups such as Earthplace (Harbor Watch/River Watch) and acquiring more open space. The efforts that Alicia has devoted to water quality monitoring allows the pinpointing of pollution sources that may be remediated improving water quality and allowing shellfishing areas to remain open and utilized by both the community recreational shellfishers and the commercial shellfishermen.

West Simsbury
Flamig Farm is owned and operated by Nevin and Julie Christensen in West Simsbury, Connecticut. The Christensens have turned their 45-acre farm into an outdoor classroom for students and individuals interested in the environment and the protection of natural resources. They annually donate $1 from every yard of mulch sold during the month of April to the Simsbury Land Trust. Julie Christensen runs a Summer Farm Adventure Camp and offers School Farm Tours throughout the school year in an effort to expose children to the diverse natural environment that exists on Flamig Farm and to educate children and their parents in ways to live more harmoniously with the environment.

Wethersfield
Aegis, Inc., built an addition which enable them to do the following : reused ~ 65% lumber and doors and windows; installed low E high efficiency windows and doors, installed energy star rated appliances and purchased 100 percent of electricity from renewable resources.

GreenCircle Awards Presented on Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Avon
Carrie Firestone organized the first Farmington Valley Environmental Festival which was held on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at Thompson Brook School in Avon.
Mary-beth Hart helped establish a recycling program at Roaring Brook School (RBS) in Avon. Mary-beth also serves on the "Green Team" with the mission of finding other ways to "Green Up" the school.

Branford
Lauren Brown is responsible for the construction of the Pond Lily Fishway to restore anadromous fish passage to upstream spawning areas in the West River watershed; and made improvements to public access and educational opportunities at the Long Wharf Preserve adjacent to New Haven Harbor.

Bristol
ESPN, Inc., has converted all of their styrofoam food packaging and cups to compostable options - the ecotainer (made with PLA) and others (manufactured from bagasse) and they are now composting 100% of their food waste generated in the cafeteria and on their campus.

Brookfield
Efficient Lighting and Maintenance, Inc. (ELM) provides energy-saving products and technologies to Connecticut's businesses by retrofitting existing lighting.

Cheshire
Atlantic Inertial Sytems (AIS), Inc., sponsored a Household Hazardous Waste/Universal Waste Collection Earth Day Event.

Chester
Chrisholm Marina has signed on to the Small Business Energy Advantage Program, which has saved them up to 17% on their electric bills.

Danbury
Branson Ultrasonics, Corp., implemented a summertime air conditioning on/off temperature management plan for twenty-one office and manufacturing operations locations within the facility.

Cartus has over 1600 employees commuting to the office daily and realized the need to chamption a carpooling/ride sharing program. Over the last three years Cartus has become a huge proponent of NU-RIDES. There are currently over 400 NU-RIDE members at the Danbury site with over 200 utilizing this program.

The Candlewood Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited undertook a major restoration project of Deep Brook, a distressed Class 1 trout stream in Newtown.

Christopher William Fedge is a boy scout with Troop 52 in Danbury, CT and has completed his Eagle Project. For his project, he worked on a hiking trail located at Tarrywile Park in Danbury, CT. Over 3 days he, with a group of scouts from his troup, removed 1.5 tons of heavy debris, including a car, a pickup truck, washing machines, dryers and a stove which were deposited beside the trail near and at the top of the mountain near the airport beacon.
Spirol International Corporation's Environmental Management System was certified to ISO 14001. The most significant successes of Spirol's Environmental Management System were a 22.67% decrease in Waste Oil disposal resulting from 100% recycling of metal cutting lubricants. In addition, Spirol reduced electricity consumption by 7.78% with the installation of a High Efficient Lighting System equipped with motion detectors in office areas.

Durham
ECO and Boy Scout Troop 27 successfully set up a bottle recycling program at the Durham Fair in September of 2006. They successfully removed around 20,000 beverage containers from the waste stream.

East Windsor
Next Level Recycling (NLR) successfully implemented a recycling program at Fairfield University for their students to recycle batteries and small electronics at 3 locations on their campus.

Enfield
Senior Aerospace Sterling Machine, Co. recently completed their final stage for the 14001 program. The company reduced their chemical inventory and replace any hazardous chemicals with safer and non-toxic materials. The company implemented a mandatory recycling program with amazing results including e-waste.

Farmington
The J.F. Fredericks Tool Co., achieving ISO 14001 certification, the company demonstrates its continued commitment to quality, service and to our environment. This certification supplements their previously awarded ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100:2004 Quality Systems.

Madison
The Madison Land Conservation Trust, have added 16.6 acres to their Ironwoods Preserve which now contains a total of 102 acres. A trail complex has been developed, blazed and maintained in this preserve.

Middletown
Stericycle continues to reduce the amount of mercury going into the Biomedical Waste Stream. This has been accomplished through their Amalgam Mail Back program.

Milford
Schick Manufacturing, Inc. has modified a major manufacturing process to eliminate the use of a solvent containing material. The former process used in excess of 4,000 gallons of solvent per year. In addition, the required roof-top incinerator (thermal after-burner) used as control equipment to treat this material will no longer be necessary. This incinerator used over 8,000,000 cubic of natural gas per year.

New Milford
The Rotary Club of New Milford held its first annual Community Paper Shredding Day. The event provided consumers and businesses the opportunity to spring clean their home and office where they can have their confidential documents shredded by a mobile paper shredding truck.

Last summer the Eliot Pratt Education Center organized and implemented a major restoration project addressing both instream and riparian environmental issues.

Newtown
Charter Communications implemented a videotape recycling program during April 07 to coincide with Earth Day. They collected 7000 tapes, or 2 tons of material which will be recycled. The campaign will be conducted yearly.

Old Saybrook
Saybrook Point Inn & Spa was awarded an Energy Star by E.P.A. on June 14, 2007, for superior energy performance. Saybrook Point Inn & Spa has partnered with Connecticut Audobon Society to place bird sanctuaries on their property.

Salem
Salem Land Trust (SLT) has purchased and will maintain 101 acres of critical unspoiled woodland in Salem, CT. The Litsky parcel, now known as The Darling Road Preserve, provides an essential land bridge for wildlife at the heart of an 8,000-acre forest.

Shelton
Oil Purification Systems, Inc., (OPS), is the developer of the OPS-1, a patented on-board oil refining system that continuously removes the solid and liquid contaminants from engine oil, allowing the engine to run with clean oil 100% of the time.

Simsbury
Jill Paterson produced, filmed, edited, narrated, and starred in four (4) TV shows, called the Green Bean Magazine, that were aired on the public access TV station in Simsbury. These shows provided useful educational information on how to conserve energy, to prevent air pollution, to reduce your carbon footprint, to reduce groundwater and soil pollution, to recycle and compost.

Stratford
EMSAR operated an employee EWASTE (electronics waste) collection site. Cell phones were segregated and sent to RECellular in Michigan where they refurbish, reuse, and responsibly recycle discarded cell phones.

Torrington
Fifteen (15) EMSAR Torrington employees, friends, and family volunteered to pick up trash from the Stillwater Pond boat launch area on August 11, 2007. This was a cooperative venture between EMSAR and the maintenance department of Burr Pond State Park.

O & G Industries, Inc. In coordination with the Friends of Lover's Leap State Park Chairperson, Jeanne Garvey, and O&G Industries, Inc., supplied approximately 1,400 tons of base stone and 100 tons of asphalt for use in the construction of the 40-car parking facility and driveway. The company's donation was instrumental in improving access to the park's many unique features including Falls Bridge, an iron bridge built in 1895, which has been part of the National Register of Historic places since 1976.

Watertown
Philson, Inc., in 2007, sold their 1995 gas powered truck and signed a rental agreement with Ryder for a new 2007 ultra low sulfur diesel fuel truck. This truck has a rating of 10-14 mpg, while the old truck was rated at 5-7 mpg. The new truck meets the 2007 vehicle emissions standards challenge requiring the reduction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons by 50% and particulate matter by 90%. Philson Incorporated conducted a 6th Annual Steelebrook River Clean-up on Saturday, April 21, 2007.

Westport
Alicia Mozian of Westport Conservation Department is an avid volunteer. Her efforts include identifying pollution sources, areas of runoff, monitoring water quality by sampling, securing grants for non-profit monitoring groups such as Earthplace (Harbor Watch/River Watch) and acquiring more open space. The efforts that Alicia has devoted to water quality monitoring allows the pinpointing of pollution sources that may be remediated improving water quality and allowing shellfishing areas to remain open and utilized by both the community recreational shellfishers and the commercial shellfishermen.

West Simsbury
Flamig Farm is owned and operated by Nevin and Julie Christensen in West Simsbury, Connecticut. The Christensens have turned their 45-acre farm into an outdoor classroom for students and individuals interested in the environment and the protection of natural resources. They annually donate $1 from every yard of mulch sold during the month of April to the Simsbury Land Trust. Julie Christensen runs a Summer Farm Adventure Camp and offers School Farm Tours throughout the school year in an effort to expose children to the diverse natural environment that exists on Flamig Farm and to educate children and their parents in ways to live more harmoniously with the environment.

Wethersfield
Aegis, Inc., built an addition which enable them to do the following : reused ~ 65% lumber and doors and windows; installed low E high efficiency windows and doors, installed energy star rated appliances and purchased 100 percent of electricity from renewable resources.