by Brianna Baker - Green Philly | Jan 7, 2020 | Camden, New Jersey, Sustainable Business
Entrepreneur Tom Marchetty pours his passion for history, reuse, and innovation into sustainably made furniture. Now, as the finalist in a Camden public art competition, he eyes his next possible project. Tom Marchetty loves a good backstory. Whether he’s slabbing...
by Bill Barlow - Cape May County Herald | Jan 7, 2020 | Cape May, Education, New Jersey
Kevin Poltorak, a seventh and eighth-grade science teacher in Dennis Township, shows off the school garden. He said the students enjoy the time outdoors, while he sees lessons taking hold due to practical application. DENNISVILLE – It can be tough getting students...
by Brianna Baker - Green Philly | Jan 6, 2020 | Camden, Infrastructure, New Jersey
The Trust for Public Land is using tons of data thanks to a new tool, combined with community input, to spruce up the city’s parks. The goal: prepare Camden for the climate crisis. As the climate crisis looms, cities like Camden are on the frontlines of warming...
by Alexis Shanes - NorthJersey.com | Jan 3, 2020 | Cape May, Ecology, New Jersey
Iconic monarch butterfly populations have declined 90 percent in 20 years, but good weather has produced a bumper crop this summer. Climate change and regulatory rollbacks spell doom for threatened and endangered species. But along the New Jersey coastline, one...
by Vernon Ogrodnek - The Press of Atlantic City | Dec 31, 2019 | Atlantic, New Jersey, Video, Waste
SOMERS POINT — It sounded like a great idea at the time: ban all single-use plastic bags. Blamed for killing and maiming sea life and clogging landfills, plastic bags have many detractors. Americans use 100 billion of them a year, with only 1% of those bags being...
by Alexis Shanes - NorthJersey.com | Dec 30, 2019 | Bergen, Infrastructure, New Jersey
Time-lapse of the solar panel installation project at Garret Mountain Plaza in Woodland Park, NJ. North Jersey Record MetLife Stadium in the North Jersey Meadowlands is among the nation’s greenest stadiums. It has a massive-scale recycling program and a ring of...
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