Sustainable Jersey Towns to Get Awards
In addition to Bloomfield’s Sustainable Jersey certification, eight awards will be given for innovation, leadership and collaboration in addition to four Sustainability Champion awards for the top certification point-getters. These towns are the Sustainable Jersey pioneers that can forever boast that they were the first, having achieved certification in year one of the program. Awards will be presented Tuesday, November 14 in Atlantic City. Follow the link to see a list of towns.
The 2009 Sustainable Jersey award winners are as follows:
- Sustainability Champion–Large Municipality Category: Woodbridge
- Sustainability Champion–Medium Municipality Category: Ocean City and Summit (tied)
- Sustainability Champion–Small Municipality Category: Woodbine
- Sustainable Jersey Leadership Award: Maplewood
- Sustainable Jersey Innovation Award: Cherry Hill
- Sustainable Jersey Collaboration Award: Chatham Township and Chatham Borough
The 2009 Sustainable Jersey Certified Communities are as follows*:
- Asbury Park City
- Belmar
- Berkeley Heights
- Bernards
- Bloomfield
- Chatham Township
- East Brunswick
- Edison
- Galloway
- Hillsborough
- Lawrence
- Livingston
- Manalapan
- Manchester
- Maplewood
- Montclair
- Montgomery
- Morristown
- Mt. Olive
- Ocean City
- Oceanport
- Parsippany-Troy Hills
- River Edge
- Rutherford
- South Orange Village
- Summit City
- Woodbine
- Woodbridge
- Cherry Hill
- North Brunswick
*Note: Up to six additional communities may be added to the list pending final review of documentation on Nov. 13.
About the Sustainable Jersey Awards
- INNOVATION AWARD: This award recognizes one municipality that contributes most to Sustainable Jersey by pioneering or testing a significant innovation. The award recognizes creativity, originality, and forward-thinking that can lead to new best practices and strategies by which we pursue sustainability.
- COLLABORATION AWARD: This award recognizes two or more municipalities that worked in partnership to implement a program or project. This award recognizes that many sustainability issues must be addressed on a regional scale or require the pooled resources of more than one partner.
- 2009 SUSTAINABLE JERSEY CERTIFICATION: The Sustainable Jersey certified municipalities submitted documentation that showed that they achieved the balance of the required certification actions, meeting the minimum of 100 action points. In addition to reaching 100 points, each community had to create a Green Team and select at least 2 out of 4 priority action options: Energy Audits for Municipal Facilities, Municipal Carbon Footprint, Sustainable Land Use Pledge, and Water Conservation Ordinance.
