Greener Bloomfield

Learn how to green up your backyard at Montclair’s seventh annual “Compost Give-Back” in Edgemont Park on Saturday, October 17, from 11:00am to 3:00 pm.

October 14th, 2009 | Tags: Composting, Montclair, Organic gardening, Water | Category: Composting, Events | Leave a comment

…and so did about 200 people to the Bloomfield Green Fest on Saturday, May 2, at Brookside Park. After a slightly soggy beginning, the sun brought more good cheer and more people, and some didn’t want to leave! Those who attended enjoyed finding out about the organizations and green businesses there. The kids had a [...]

May 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Composting, Earth Day, Energy, Events, Green Fest, Greener Bloomfield, Lighting, Recycling | Category: Composting, Earth Day 2009, Energy, Events, Green Fest, Recycling | Leave a comment

Tonight, on Earth Day, April 22 at 7:30 pm in the Bloomfield Civic Center, 84 Broad St., the Essex County Greens will present a forum, “Healthy Lifestyle = Healthy Earth”.
Speakers at the event will be:

Jose German, a founder of Montclair Community Wildlife Habitat Project and active with the Cornucopia Network of NJ which promotes organic gardening and [...]

April 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Bloomfield, Composting, Cornucopia Network, Earth Day, Essex Greens, Events, Food, Local groups, Organic gardening, Wildlife habitat | Category: Composting, Earth Day 2009, Events, Food | Leave a comment

 
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 [...]

March 9th, 2009 | Category: Composting, Events, Recycling | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 1st, 2009 | Tags: Biodiesel, Composting, Earth Day, Greenstorming, Hybrids, Recycling, Recycling Committee, Sustainable Jersey | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Composting, Earth Day 2009, Events, Food, Meetings | Leave a comment

At the Greener Bloomfield meeting on Nov. 6, one “greenstorming” (brainstorming about going green) breakout group listed ideas for projects to help local schools go green. If you have additional ideas or opinions, or if you’d like to work on any of these projects, please add a Comment! We’ll collect these ideas and begin prioritizing them and assigning [...]

November 17th, 2008 | Tags: Composting, Greenstorming, Ideas, Local Government, Meetings, Schools | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Composting, Events, Meetings | Leave a comment

Over 80 home composting bins were reserved in advance and most of those picked up at Bloomfield’s Composting Day held Saturday, October 25, at the DPW, 230 Grove Street. Bloomfield residents could get bins for only $30, thanks to a special grant that further discounted the bins. People picking up bins also were given composting [...]

October 24th, 2008 | Tags: Composting | Category: Composting | Leave a comment