The Garden Club of America (GCA) is honoring the Greenwich Garden Club for its support of the Save the Sound initiative to ensure the environmental protection and maintenance of the quality of life in and around Long Island Sound.
Save the Sound, proposed by the Greenwich Garden Club, has been awarded The Cynthia Pratt Laughlin Medal for outstanding achievement in environmental protection and maintenance of the quality of life in and around Long Island Sound. For 50 years, Save the Sound has been committed to protecting and improving the land, air, and water in Connecticut, Southern New York, and Long Island Sound. Through legal, engineering, and scientific means, it works to protect the environment so that people and wildlife can enjoy a healthy and clean environment for generations to come.
The award will be presented at the GCA’s 111th annual meeting in Hartford in April.
“The breadth and depth of its toolkit sets Save the Sound apart from other regional nonprofits,” said the GCA in a statement. “It successfully uses a combination of legislative advocacy, legal action, engineering, and scientific environmental monitoring as well as hands-on volunteer and educational efforts to protect this important region. It does not work alone. It takes a collaborative approach working alongside other environmental and volunteer organizations to restore and protect the area’s rivers, shorelines, wetlands, forests, air, and water.”
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