by Brianna Baker - Next City | Jun 11, 2020 | Energy, Middlesex, New Jersey
(Photo by Peter Miller / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) The town of Princeton, NJ has flipped the switch on its energy provider. As of June 1, close to 90 percent of its households are now powered — at least in part — by locally sourced renewable energy. All Princeton residents...
by Brianna Baker - Next City | May 27, 2020 | Energy, Middlesex, New Jersey
(Photo courtesy Solar Landscape) Up until mid-May, 21-year-old Emmanuel Tolentine of Scotch Plains, New Jersey worked as a cashier at QuickChek — a job he says was less than satisfying. “I was ready to get out of there, honestly,” he says. “Everyone was so rude. It’s...
by Brianna Baker - Next City | Apr 30, 2020 | Middlesex, New Jersey, Sustainable Business
(Photo illustration via Metuchen Virtual Market and SmartMockups.com) Metuchen – In early March, the board of volunteers behind the Metuchen Farmers Market in Metuchen, New Jersey, held a meeting to address a dilemma: How could they hold their indoor winter...
by Alexis Shanes - NorthJersey.com | Jan 24, 2020 | Education, Environmental Justice, Middlesex, New Jersey
Solar panels manufactured by China’s Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. convert sunlight into electricity on the Livingston Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (Photo: Rutgers University) NEW BRUNSWICK — A Rutgers University task...
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