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NJ's Coastline Gets a Second Life 2008-12-26 08:26:00 [Note: see also my chock-full NJ Green Update 12/26/08, just below]
NJ's Alliance for a Living Ocean has gotten a new life! I was disappointed to read an article a few days ago in the Asbury Park Press that the Alliance for a Living Ocean said it would disband in January if it didn't find additional volunteers to carry out programs. There are so few non-profit groups whose explicit mission Read more:Second
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NJ Recycling Advocates, Get Ready 2008-12-24 17:27:00 Municipal recycling programs have a way of weakening and disappearing during times like these. As a result, local recycling advocates had better stay particularly engaged with municipalities, lest they find out decisions have been made that could unwind years of progress.
As Hugh Morley explains very well in yesterday's Record, prices for recyclable materials have plunged. I fully expect haulers Read more:Advocates
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NJ & Hydro Power: Still "Perfect Together" 2008-12-24 14:17:00 Despite the ubiquity and untapped potential of hydroelectric power in the U.S. and worldwide, I think it's still an unheralded renewable power source. But that is changing rapidly. Look, for instance, at yesterday's Star-Ledger story about Sparta's plans to convert a spring-fed quarry into a significant source of hydro power.
I expect to hear more announcements like this -- municipalities ( Read more:Perfect
NJ DEP Memo: Quant 2008-12-23 09:03:00 The NJ DEP has made some laudable strides this year, but its year-end feel-good memo is a whistle to the graveyard when I consider what's really happening to the climate. Nowhere does the memo mention what we're up against and the significant increase in efforts needed to halt the climate devastation we could face. The memo was an opportunity for new DEP head Mauriello to hint at a vision he'll
NJ Green Update: 12/22/08. Pallone, Recycling, Pollution, Action 2008-12-22 10:05:00 Rep. Pallone Keeps Subcommittee. "U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch) will remain as the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health after an agreement announced [Dec. 18] by Henry Waxman and John Dingell. Dingell had hinted that he might challenge Pallone for the powerful subcommittee post after losing the full committee chairmanship to Waxman last month" wrote Read more:Action
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The Single Most Effective Way to Green NJ... 2008-12-22 09:09:00 ...is to remove Rep. Scott Garrett from the NJ Congressional Delegation in 2010. I write this today after "Retire Garrett" blogger Mike Simonson has posted another factually devastating article about Garrett's environmental record. The fifth district and our entire state is sending someone to D.C. to systematically unwind the green-prosperity movement's victories for human health and economic Read more:Green
PSE&G Double Talks on Highlands -- Surprise 2008-12-21 18:48:00 In a letter to the NJ DEP, The NJ Highlands
Coalition has "strongly objected" to PSE&G's Highlands power line plan, according to NJ Herald, in what sounds like an even stronger opposition than the Coalition's 11/18/08 press release which "asks the DEP to carefully review the power line expansion plan."
What really raises my ire is that PSE&G is telling residents attending its "information Read more:Surprise
"Grant Proposal Writers Wanted" in NJ! 2008-12-20 11:50:00 Obama is going to keep NJ's governments and green organizations very busy in the next four years working to influence -- and get a piece of -- what could be the biggest-ever federal movement toward science.
I've linked to the tip of the (thawing) iceberg in this article, which will also take you to Obama's "landmark radio address" today.
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NJ Green Milestone -- But a Small One 2008-12-20 11:07:00 NJ's participation in this week's RGGI auction is a milestone for the state's green-prosperity movement. But let's make no mistake -- it's a small, tentative milestone.
The Regional Green
house Gas Initiative is resulting in a Northeastern utility such as PSE&G paying an additional $3.38 for each ton of carbon buys the right to emit. The figure is a tiny fraction of the "externalized costs" to Read more:Small
NJ Green Update: 12/18/08. NJ-Global Warming; Energy; Preservation; more 2008-12-18 16:44:00 Also check out my profile today about exactly how regular folks can earn money via the extraordinary new Global
Emissions Exchange that calls NJ its home. Further updates today include:
NJ / Global Warming
NJ / Global Warming. NJ Future commended the State's Green
house Gas Plan, but warns in its press release that more action will be necessary. For instance, NJ Future wants the plan to Read more:Energy
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Wild New Jersey - New Statewide Nature Blog 2008-12-18 15:47:00 New NJ green blog -- www.WildNewJersey
.tv. The Edison Wetlands Association recently launched this blog, which is the only statewide wildlife and nature newsblog that I've seen. It's updated daily with breaking news, sightings, studies and upcoming events.
I particularly like it as a complement to Green Politics NJ, which is statewide politics / business / organizational with less of an emphasis
Extraordinary NJ Green, Money-Earning Opportunity 2008-12-18 10:02:00 Some opportunities to be green and prosper are so extraordinary that I do a double-take. That’s exactly the opportunity I’m beholding in Global Emissions Exchange (GEX), the New Jersey-based carbon emissions exchange that lets everyday people & organizations, towns and government agencies earn money from our reductions in carbon emissions. It’s the first exchange of its kind that lets regu Read more:Earning
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NJ Green Update: 12/17/08. Climate, Carbon, Preservation... 2008-12-17 17:10:00 In addition to the Sierra Club NJ's ACTION ALERT we commented on earlier today, here are some headlines:
Climate
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Carbon
Rights Auction. NJ to, join carbon auction as part of regional climate group. Companies in NJ -- mainly utilities -- are participate in the auction for the first time today as part of the RGGI (Regional Green
house Gas Initiative), results coming Friday 12/19, and Read more:Update
ACTION ALERT - Double Emphasis. Prevent an NJ Toxic "Cover-Up" 2008-12-17 14:14:00 The Sierra Club NJ has just issued an Action Alert to all New Jerseyans who would lose the right to know when toxic sources threaten surrounding locations in 19 of the 21 counties. The Alert is titled, "Tell Corzine Not to Cover
Up Toxic Hazards!"
Note that Clean Water Action has issued the same alert (highlighted here and on GreenPoliticsNJ), which should double the motivation to tell the
Busy Rest-of-Week for NJ Green 2008-12-17 10:38:00 These events are pulled from my full NJ GREEN CALENDAR, which is always linked in the right-hand toolbar. Click on the Date for detail on each event. And please let me know if I'm missing your event -- the main focus here is on collaborative & political/economic events that can enable people to improve NJ's environment.
December...
17. PSE&G holds its second public meeting to discuss its Read more:Green
NJ Green Update: 12/16/08. Legislature; Courts; New PAC; much more 2008-12-16 13:59:00 In addition to my discussion of NJ's Global Warming Response Act Recommendation Report and Pollution information in blog posts yesterday, as well as an ACTION ALERT today, here are numerous other developments:
Legislative
Legislation Introduced yesterday (among the environment-related legislation):
S2451. Provides exemption from tax on sales of certain energy saving products and services Read more:Green
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ACTION ALERT: NJ Group Rallying Against Horrifying Pollution of Raritan River 2008-12-16 12:01:00 The Edison Wetlands Association has launched an all-out effort to stop the horrific pollution of the Raritan River
by Akzo Nobel and Basell in Edison. Edison Wetlands has started holding rallies every two weeks, and the next one is December 22 at the polluting facility (at the corner of Meadow and Midvale near the Edison Boat Basin in Edison, NJ), and anyone is welcome. They'll be caroling Read more:Group
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ACTION ALERT: Add "Implementation Team" to Draft NJ Global Warming Act 2008-12-15 15:41:00 The NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), has published its "DraftGlobal
Warming Response Act (GWRA) Recommendation Report." The report is a series of recommendations for how the DEP thinks the state can achieve its Global Warming
Response Act of 2007.
The new Recommendation Report alone doesn't overcome the major criticism of NJ's approach to global warming -- that it lacks teeth. Read more:Implementation
Article: Is NJ "Losing The Pollution War?" Check In Your Back Yard 2008-12-15 11:05:00 The Record's Scott Fallon and James O'Neill published an interesting article today showing the results of The Record's study of North Jersey air pollution data, focusing mainly on data from the U.S. EPA. If the overview report they provide is concerning to you, the particulars are even more so. Fallon and O'Neill's "chemical map" does a great job highlighting some specific sources of toxic Read more:Article
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"Do-nothing Whitman disses Nobelist Steven Chu" 2008-12-14 02:26:00 Christine Todd Whitman
's comments were attacked by a leading environmental scientist and blogger after she said incoming U.S. Energy Secretary Steven
Chu may lack enough administrative experience. The blog post is titled "Do-nothing Whitman disses Nobelist Steven Chu."
Keep in mind that the blogger, Joe Romm, is one of the leading figures in the environmental movement today. He is not only the
NJ Green Update: 12/14/08. Action Alert and many more items... 2008-12-14 02:03:00 ACTION ALERT.
Clean Water / Wildlife. "The NY/NJ Baykeeper is enlisting the public's help to stop the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from canceling a program to return oysters to local waters [Shrewsbury River / Sea Bright]," writes Sharon Leff for Atlanticville. Meredith Comi, oyster program director for the Baykeeper, told Atlanticville, "We're encouraging people to write in [to Read more:Action
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NJ Green Business "Buzz" 2008-12-13 07:39:00 Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt wrote a helpful guest article on the blog BlueJersey.com yesterday, highlighting her high hopes for green collar jobs. Nice job, Assemblywoman and Blue Jersey! I posted the following Comment on the site, in response:
Assemblywoman Lampitt, thanks and keep pushing. NJ already has a robust green collar economy and it can be so much more-so. I see this after just one Read more:Business
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Troubling "Developments" on NJ Coast. A Time To Act 2008-12-12 10:51:00 I want to amplify a December 7 press release that I haven't seen picked up in the media yet.
The American Littoral Society, which is dedicated to protecting New Jersey's coast from harm, has warned the Office of Smart Growth and State Planning Commission that development plans in Toms River, NJ threaten the fragile Barnegat Bay. The State Planning Commission has granted Toms River a fourth Read more:Coast
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