Mayors' Committee for a Green Future seeks Outreach Coordinator
The MCGF is a subcommittee of the New Jersey League of Municipalities (NJLM), created by the NJLM to develop and promote a certification program for municipalities that want to go green, control costs and save money, and take steps to sustain their quality of life over the long term. The MCGF and project partners recently announced that the Sustainable Jersey™ program would become effective at the end of January, 2009. The MCGF desires to enroll many municipalities to participate in this initiative and to assist them in their efforts to become sustainable communities. To that end, the MCGF seeks the services of an individual or firm, as an independent contractor, to work with and assist its executive committee in conducting outreach directly to municipal officers and local leaders. For full description, click here. Responses due: January 19, 2009
Sustainable Jersey Launched
On November 19, 2008 Sustainable Jersey was launched at the New Jersey League of Municipalities Annual Conference before a crowd of over 350 municipal officials.
PDFs of the Sustainable Jersey materials can be found here. The program will be open for business in January 2009.
Check the site www.sustainablejersey.com for details. To be put on the notification list contact Medea Villere' at 732-932-5475 x 660 or medeav@rutgers.edu.
Hillsborough Township Solidifies Commitment to Going Green
Appoints Steering Committee as Coordinating Body of the Strategic Plan for a Sustainable Hillsborough
Solidifying their commitment to a greener Hillsborough, the Township Committee approved the Sustainable Hillsborough Steering Committee to be the official coordinating body of the Strategic Plan for a Sustainable Hillsborough and established the process for updating and reporting indicators and actions on an annual basis.
To view the resolution, click here.
The Middlesex County Sustainability Committee held its first meeting December 12th, 2007 at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Freeholders H. James Polos and Camille Fernicole, co-chairs of the committee, presented on Middlesex County's current sustainability efforts. Randy Solomon, Director of NJSSI, gave an overview of the Sustainable Middlesex Project. For more information, please see the following presentations Middlesex County Current Sustainability Efforts and Middlesex County Sustainability Plan.
Middlesex County has hired NJSSI, through a $75,000 grant from the Office of Smart Growth, to help the county develop a strategic plan for sustainability. For more information check out the recent press releases from the Star Ledger and Home News Tribune. Click here to see the latest stories featuring NJSSI.
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NJSSI hosted the League of Municipalities' newly organized Mayors Committee for a Green Future - Executive Committee on July 9, 2008 at the Bloustein School at Rutgers University.
The MCGF Executive Committee met to develop a number of priority projects all designed to facilitate the greening of NJ municipalities. NJSSI and Municipal Land Use Center at the College of New Jersey have joined together with the Mayors' Committee for a Green Future on projects that include a "Green Future Roadmap", development of at Green Seminar Track in conjunction with the League’s Annual Conference in November, and a Green Future Grants Program to be conducted in conjunction with the Wal-Mart Corporation. The Roadmap will provide direction and resources for municipalities to institute programs that address sustainability and green communities. For more, visit Mayors' Committee for a Green Future Project Page.
NJSSI recently released the final report of our multi-year Energy Sustainability Project.
New Jersey has adopted the most aggressive target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of any U.S. state. Now New Jersey is grappling with the difficulty of achieving these targets. You can read the final report via PDF: Climate and Energy in New Jersey. The report presents original energy and climate research, future NJ scenarios, and brings consensus on a set of priorities for climate and energy policy in New Jersey.
The report was released at a conference held on October 29, 2007 at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick entitled "Reaching Our Targets: Innovative Global Warming Solutions for New Jersey."
See more information on Climate and Energy in New Jersey on our project page: Energy Sustainability Project. |
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