by Alicia Tedesco | Nov 12, 2021 | Article, Education, Essex, New Jersey, Waste
It’s a habit we don’t think about very much — we eat a snack, wrapped in plastic, or finish a box of pizza and throw the packaging in a trash bin. The container fills up to the point where barely anything fits into it anymore, and the...
by Brianna Baker - Next City | Aug 5, 2020 | Education, Mercer, New Jersey, Sustainable Business
(Photo courtesy: Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space) Mychael Halloway, 17, has been spending her time in quarantine on her phone. But she isn’t scrolling Instagram. Thanks to a newly launched environmental internship program, she’s photographing and identifying the...
by Brianna Baker - Next City | Jul 10, 2020 | Education, Mercer, New Jersey
(Photo courtesy: Painted Oak) As schools across the country debate how to safely reopen in the fall, Lisa Wolff, executive director of New Jersey-based nonprofit Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space, has heard her fair share of ideas — some more practical than...
by Joseph F. Berenato - The Hammonton Gazette | May 20, 2020 | Atlantic, Education, New Jersey
Hammonton Environmental Commission Chair Dan Bachalis in front of the commission’s kiosk at Hammonton Lake Park. Bachalis said the purple martins are back in their apartment house by the lake. (Photo Credit: Hammonton Gazette) HAMMONTON—With the cancellation of all...
by Ambreen Ali - VillageGreenNJ.com | Jan 20, 2020 | Ecology, Essex, New Jersey
The test will be conducted at the base of Floods Hill, where South Orange screens outdoor movies in the summer. (Photo by Ambreen Ali) South Orange is testing organic methods for maintaining grass turf on a two-acre field in Floods Hill this year to determine whether...
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