Join us for our monthly Greener Bloomfield meeting (the last Thursday of each month), on Thursday, March 26, at 7:00 pm at the Bloomfield Civic Center. We’ll discuss Bloomfield’s registration in the Sustainable Jersey certification program and begin strategizing how we’ll pursue the points for certification, and we’ll get an update on planning for our Earth Day Green Fest [...]
A panel discussion on “Energy Efficiency, Green Building, and Green Purchasing” will be held Monday March 9th, 7:00-9:30 p.m., at the Cook Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 59 Biel Road, New Brunswick, NJ. Panelists will discuss internship/careers in energy, green buildings, and green purchasing, green building best practices, new energy efficiency technologies, the [...]
Sustainable Jersey will be holding an information session for interested municipalities on March 12 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Maplewood Municipal Building, 574 Valley Street, Maplewood. The session will provide details on the municipal certification program along with applications for Sustainable Jersey grants from Wal-Mart. Greener Bloomfield is proposing that Bloomfield Township seek [...]
On Tuesday, March 10, at 7:00 p.m. at the Bloomfield Civic Center, Nicholas Smith-Sebasto, associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies at Montclair State University will present a seminar on large-scale aerobic composting as used at MSU since 2007, sponsored by the Bloomfield Recycling Committee. The MSU composter can process approximately 2 [...]
At their regular meeting on Monday, March 2, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., the Bloomfield Township Council is expected to did not vote to register the Township’s intent to seek certification from Sustainable Jersey, a new program launched to provide a roadmap to sustainable practices for New Jersey’s municipalities. Due to some glitches, the Council will again [...]
At Greener Bloomfield’s February 26 meeting, over 20 residents participated at the Civic Center meeting room. First, John Palomaki presented the Sustainable Jersey program and website, which officially launched earlier that day. Councilman Nick Joanow described a field trip that several town administrators, John Palomaki, and he took to Westwood, NJ, a town that uses [...]
