The Montclair Township Environmental Affairs office and Community Green present’Green Builders, another eye opening film Thursday, March 18, 7:00 pm at the Montclair Public Library. Greener Bloomfield’s Christine (Bruncati) Liaukus is one of the experts appearing in the show.
We’re back to our last-Thursday-of-the-month meeting schedule, and we have a great one. We’ll be touring a home that’s been remodeled “green”, nearly complete, and targeted for LEED certification.
Happy New Year! In the January 14 Bloomfield Life, Greener Bloomfield coordinator John Palomaki wrote the Public Square column and offered some New Year’s Resolutions for Bloomfield, focused mostly on sustainability.
Speak up for sustainability! At Monday’s Council meeting (August 10, 7:30pm, Town Hall), the Bloomfield Township Council will be voting on 3 resolutions and 2 ordinances related to sustainability proposed by Greener Bloomfield, and 1 resolution from the Bloomfield Recycling Committee, for Sustainable Jersey actions: Project Porchlight, Anti-Idling (resolution and ordinance), Sustainable Land Use Pledge, Grass Cut It and Leave It, and Water Conservation.
At the July 27 Township Council Conference Meeting, Greener Bloomfield will be offering a number of resolutions and ordinances related to actions that will help Bloomfield earn Sustainable Jersey certification.
Do you want to do something good for Bloomfield? We’re looking for volunteers to help Bloomfield achieve Sustainable Jersey certification. We need people interested in short-term tasks and people that want to take on coordination of an entire action that will earn points toward certification. We’ll provide a description of what needs to be done [...]
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 [...]
At the Greener Bloomfield meeting on Nov. 6, one “greenstorming” (brainstorming about going green) breakout group listed ideas for projects to help local homes 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 [...]
In the Business section of the Saturday, Nov. 8, New York Times, an article entitled “Green Plans in Blueprints of Retailers” describes how stores and fast-food restaurants are building green to win customers and lower operating costs.
“You get energy savings, and you can tell customers you are greener. That’s a win-win.”
- Neil Z. Stern, a [...]
Bloomfield’s “Paperless Council” project received a nice write-up in today’s Star Ledger, with supportive quotes from Deputy Clerk Bonnie Triola and Councilwoman Pat Spychala. It was used as an example of the town’s efforts to “go green”, along with the energy audit completed last year and their first action steps of replacing incandescent building lights [...]
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