New program announced for municipalities to engage small businesses and homeowners in adopting solar Today Sustainable Jersey announced a New Jersey statewide Solar Challenge program and invited municipalities to participate in order to promote adoption of solar energy at the community-level. The...

2016 Sustainable State of the State Report and a new gold Sustainable Jersey standard released;   NJ Electric Vehicle Charging Grant Program and Sustainable Jersey Solar Challenge announced. Today over 300 mayors, municipal and school district staff, environmental commission and green...

REGISTER Do you want to get ideas for how to make your community better through arts and culture?  Do you want to spend more time with other people who 'get it' about how arts and cultural activity improve quality of life?  Join the National Center for Creative Placemaking for their next...

Experts and attendees will evaluate NJ’s progress and review Sustainable State of the State Report WHAT:                   One-day sustainability summit with over 300 diverse participants from across New Jersey and more than 50 experts and practitioners. The event will kick-off with...

REGISTER This webinar from the Center for Non Profits and the New Jersey Travel Independence Program (NJTIP) at Rutgers University will explore existing services and solutions to how improved access to transportation could benefit your community.

The American Planning Association’s Sustainable Communities Division (SCD) announced the third annual Awards for Excellence in Sustainability at the National Planning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Sustainable Jersey received the Leadership in Sustainability award and was selected from a group of...

REGISTER : Cost $20 - $85 The NJ Licensed Site Remediation Professionals Association (LSRPA) will host this training to help municipalities deal with communication and cleanup and move properties to productive re-use to create jobs, tax revenue, and public benefits for your community.  It...

EDF Fellows to assist with advanced sustainable energy projects Today, Sustainable Jersey announced the three townships and five school districts that will receive an Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Fellow to provide on-site technical assistance with advanced sustainable energy projects....

Report provides a comparative look at state-local sustainability rating systems and programs across U.S. Sustainable Jersey today released a study on a new breed of bottom-up meets top-down state-local sustainability programs in the United States. Municipal certification or recognition is...

Grant recipients from 16 NJ counties: Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Essex, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren At an event held today in Cranford Township, Sustainable Jersey announced the 32 New Jersey municipalities...