Greener Bloomfield

The Great West Essex Toy Swap on Sunday, February 21, is an opportunity to bring your old toys to exchange for different toys your kids will love.

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: Events, Local groups, Recycling, Waste | Category: Events, Recycling | Leave a comment

Bloomfield can recycle in style with new recycling containers in the town’s public spaces. Bloomfield Department of Public Works, in partnership with the Bloomfield Recycling Committee, has launched a new, cost-free public space recycling program.
Baristanet reports that the program, launched with Creative Outdoor Advertising of America (”COA”), “is designed to enhance the township’s recycling [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: Bloomfield, Recycling, Recycling Committee, Waste | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Recycling | Leave a comment

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.

January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Anti-Idling, Bloomfield, Food, Green Building, Ideas, Local Government, Local press, Open space, Recycling, Sustainability, Waste | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Featured, Green Building, Recycling | Comments (1)

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 [...]

May 27th, 2009 | Tags: Businesses, Green Building, Sustainability, Sustainable Jersey | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Energy, Green Building, Recycling | Leave a comment

You like STUFF? 
Want to know where STUFF comes from? 
Where STUFF goes when it turns to trash? 
And what it does along the way?
Join our regular Greener Bloomfield meeting on Thursday, May 28, 7pm at the Bloomfield Civic Center, 84 Broad Street, where we’ll have a screening of “The Story of Stuff”, a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the [...]

May 20th, 2009 | Tags: Green Fest, Meetings, Recycling, Sustainable Jersey, Waste | Category: Events, Featured, Green Fest, Meetings, Recycling | 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

 
Celebrate and learn about sustainable living, working, and community at the Bloomfield Green Fest on Saturday, May 2, 2009, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Brookside Park.  This event continues Earth Day festivities locally and focuses on energy conservation and respect for the environment.

See exhibits from over 40 local businesses and organizations
Hear guest speakers [...]

April 28th, 2009 | Tags: Bloomfield, Earth Day, Events, Green Fest, Greener Bloomfield, Homes, Recycling, Recycling Committee, Sustainability | Category: Earth Day 2009, Energy, Events, Green Fest, Recycling | Leave a comment

Today is Earth Day! (We’re extending it through to our Bloomfield Green Fest on May 2 at Brookside Park.) Remember: reduce, reuse, recycle. Use your own reusable grocery bags. Ban plastic water bottles from your life – use a reusable bottle. Try to go meatless at least one day/week. Buy organic when you can. When you have to drive, [...]

April 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Earth Day, Green Fest, Ideas, Recycling | Category: Earth Day 2009, Events, Green Fest, Recycling | 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

Earth Day may be on April 22, but Greener Bloomfield and the Bloomfield Recycling Committee will be extending the celebration to an event on Saturday, May 2, at Brookside Park. Similar to last fall’s successful Bloomfield Green Fest, we’ll have tables for local green businesses and non-profits. We’ll also have a schedule of guest speakers and [...]

February 18th, 2009 | Tags: Earth Day | Category: Earth Day 2009, Events, Recycling | Leave a comment

As we decorate our homes, offices, and trees with lights, it’s a good opportunity to explore another way to make Bloomfield greener by making the switch to LED holiday lights instead of the traditional incandescent lights. You’ll save up to 90% in electricity use, they’ll last at least four times as long as traditional bulbs, [...]

December 14th, 2008 | Tags: Energy, Holidays, Lighting | Category: Energy, Recycling | Leave a comment