Greener Bloomfield

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.

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: Events, Green Building, Greener Bloomfield, Homes, Lighting, Meetings, Water | Category: Events, Featured, Green Building, Meetings | 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)

Bloomfield Township is one of only 47 communities in New Jersey to complete its application for Sustainable Jersey certification. The application, submitted by Greener Bloomfield coordinator John Palomaki on behalf of the Township, is currently being reviewed by Sustainable Jersey.

October 14th, 2009 | Tags: Anti-Idling, Bloomfield, Events, Green Building, Green Fest, Greener Bloomfield, Local Government, Recycling, Redevelopment, Sustainability, Sustainable Jersey, Water | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Featured | Leave a comment

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.

August 9th, 2009 | Tags: Anti-Idling, Bloomfield, Green Building, Homes, Housing, Land use, Local Government, Open space, Project Porchlight, Sustainability, Sustainable Jersey, Transportation, Waste, Water | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Featured, Green Building, Local Government | Leave a comment

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.

July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Anti-Idling, Bloomfield, Energy, Events, Green Building, Meetings, Project Porchlight, Sustainable Jersey, Water | Category: Bloomfield Township Gov't, Energy, Events, Green Building, Local Government | Leave a comment

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

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 [...]

March 9th, 2009 | Tags: Ecological Change Coalition, Energy, Green Building, Green Purchasing, Net Impact, Rutgers | Category: Energy, Events, Green Building | Leave a comment

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 [...]

November 8th, 2008 | Tags: Energy, Green Building, Lighting, Redevelopment | Category: Bloomfield Center Redevelopment, Bloomfield Township Gov't, Green Building | Leave a comment