The 2024 Awards Celebration - THANK YOU!

Thanks to everyone who made our 2024 Awards Celebration such a stellar event. It was a genuine pleasure to catch up with our friends, partners, funders, supporters, and, of course, all the Sustainable CT certified municipalities and Climate Leaders.

Congratulations once again to our 2024 certified towns: GOLD - Bristol, Fairfield, Glastonbury, Old Saybrook, and West Hartford; SILVER - Deep River, East Haddam, Greenwich, Groton, Litchfield, Marlborough, Milford, and Southbury; and BRONZE - Barkhamsted, Bethel, Canaan/Falls Village, Colchester, Durham, Ellington, Groton, Haddam, Killingly, Madison, Marlborough, Monroe, Norwalk, Pomfret, Preston, Ridgefield, Stamford, Suffield, and Thomaston. Congratulations as well to this year's Climate Leaders: Branford, Bristol, East Haddam, East Lyme, Fairfield, Glastonbury, Greenwich, Hamden, Litchfield, Old Saybrook, and West Hartford. You made it the highest level of annual achievement in our seven-year history, all going above-and-beyond to make Connecticut a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable place to call home.

We were thrilled to celebrate the FIFTH YEAR of our Community Match Fund with the help of Old Saybrook's Carolyn Lyle, SOS Trees project leader. And we couldn't have been more pleased to recognize Christine O'Neill, Environmental Planner with the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments, as our Partner of the Year.

Our special thanks and appreciation go out to our municipal host, the Town of Old Saybrook (a Gold-certified community), and to the fabulous venue,the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center - the Kate - a cultural treasure.

Thanks as well to our generous event sponsors: Orsted, Foam Cycle, PosiGen, Envest Asset Management, and Casella Waste Systems.

And thank you all for making the kick-off of our Campaign for a Sustainable CT a great success! The Campaign runs through December 31, but thanks to you, we began with more than $5,000 to foster a connected, inclusive and sustainable Connecticut. And, thanks to the Hampshire Foundation, all your donations will be doubled. We are very grateful for your support.

Pictures of the event are available in two albums on our Flickr site here (general) andhere (towns). Feel free to download and use them as you wish. If you post to social media, please tag us!

If you would like to receive PDFs (for print or online use) of your town's Success Report, please email your request to Jim Hunt at [email protected] and he'll be glad to help. Also note that these reports will be posted on your municipality's profile on our website in the very near future.

Because of all of you, the 2024 Sustainable CT Awards Celebration was a thoroughly enjoyable event. With your continued support and participation, we look forward to making Connecticut even better in 2025!

The Sustainable CT Team

Our 2024 Awards Celebration was sponsored by