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Get Green to “Go Green” With Sustainable Jersey

Posted: Wednesday, March 23 2011 at 07:25PM
Get Green to “Go Green” With Sustainable Jersey

Get Green to “Go Green” With Sustainable Jersey
We'd all love to be a little greener. To install solar panels on our roofs, to buy grass-fed USDA-certified organic meat, and to plant a thousand happy little trees through our communities. But in reality, few if any of us have time or resources. ...

Tags: Sustainable Jersey, green certification program, sustainability

Parks, Recreation, and a Little Light Reading

Posted: Thursday, March 03 2011 at 12:46AM
Parks, Recreation, and a Little Light Reading

On Monday night I attended the first meeting of Hunterdon County’s “Eco-Book Club,” and I had only just finished our assigned reading, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; Or, Life in the Woods, that afternoon. On my drive over it was raining, I hit traffic through Flemington, and I was generating some ...

Tags: Eco-Book Club, Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation

Parks, Recreation, and a Little Light Reading

Posted: Thursday, March 03 2011 at 12:01AM
  Parks, Recreation, and a Little Light Reading

On Monday night I attended the first meeting of Hunterdon County’s “Eco-Book Club,” and I had only just finished our assigned reading, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; Or, Life in the Woods, that afternoon. On my drive over it was raining, I hit traffic through Flemington, and I was generating some ...

Tags: Eco-Book Club, Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation

Celebrating the International Year of Forest in our Local Gardens

Posted: Friday, February 25 2011 at 12:53AM
 Celebrating the International Year of Forest in our Local Gardens

The holiday season has always brought my family together- not because of we’re warbling off carols together to our neighbors, or giving each other exceptionally thoughtful gifts, or because we immerse ourselves in the yuletide spirit (or spirits). It’s mainly because all six of us are required to...

Tags: Carbon sequestration, Year of the Forest, deforestation, trees

Super-funding in Hunterdon County

Posted: Wednesday, February 09 2011 at 08:17PM
Super-funding in Hunterdon County

The Alexauken Creek runs through Hunterdon County about a mile from the house where I grew up. It’s filled with sunfish, bowfin and flathead catfish and cuts a charming bubbly path through Delaware Township and Lambertville until it feed into the Delaware River. In my (heartily biased) opinion, A...

Tags: Hunterdon County, Alexauken Creek, Superfund site, EPA, CERCLA

Earth Day 2010 The Awarenest Launch

Posted: Wednesday, April 21 2010 at 11:20PM
Earth Day 2010 The Awarenest Launch

Helloooo!

The Awarenest official launch date will be April 22nd, coincidentally on Earth Day 2010! For the next couple of days we will be in Beta mode, testing and tweaking the site and working out the last few kinks. Happy Launching!

Earth Day is one day where we try to be conscious of t...

Tags: Earth Day 2010, The Awarenest Official Launch, Advocacy, Climate Change, Conservation and Biodiversity, Education, Energy, Food, Agriculture, Green Economy, Recycling and Waste, Reduction, Sustainable Development, Water

Hello World!

Posted: Saturday, April 17 2010 at 05:16PM
Hello World!

Hi! Welcome to the Bucks and Hunterdon Counties Awarenest Blog! I am thrilled to announce the launch of the Awarenest website in our area! Our mission is to serve as a resource for locals and visitors alike to our beautiful counties’ green bounties. I started visiting Lambertville and New Hope...

Tags: hunterdon county, bucks county, mara's hello world blog

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