Connecticut Green Living

"We always have to be on the lookout for a variant that might ... seriously evade protection from prior infection." - Dr. Fauci Dr. Anthony Fauci , the nation's preeminent infectious disease expert, just spoke remotely for an hour with the National Press Club in Washington. He discussed issues such as his decision to forgo attending the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, the speed of a toddler-friendly vaccine and how the insidious nature of SARS-CoV-2 variants is making herd immunity all but impossible. "How we think of herd immunity is likely unattainable in Covid-19," Fauci said, in response to a question posed by Club President Jen Judson. "So I think we have to realize that. It was what we did with measles, what we did with polio. You had enough immunity in the population with a stable virus. That’s classical herd immunity. It makes it very problematic to get herd immunity, though, [with Covid] - meaning there is enough protection in a c...

HARTFORD-APRIL 22, 2022: Last year there was enough solar power produced by Hartford's converted 4,000-acre closed landfill to power a thousand phones at full capacity. If you want to get geeky, it equated to 1 megawatt of electricity. This is one of many reasons that the city has ranked #18 per capita nationwide in a new report , Shining Cities 2022: The Top U.S. Cities for Solar Energy , when it comes to solar adoption. This is divided between both business and residential users. Johanna Neumann , senior director for renewable energy with Environment America, explained the methodology in their rankings. While Hartford is #18 for per capita solar use, it does not rank in the top 20 for overall solar output, an award that goes to Los Angeles. There is value, she explains, in both measurements. "So there are a lot of ways to slice and dice. How much solar per capita and overall [solar use]." She adds that it's equally important to look at small cities that are do...