Take the Green Challenge
Green Community Plan
- Overview
- Goal 1: Healthy Environment
- Goal 2: Healthy People
- Goal 3: Strong Community
- Goal 4: Convenient Transportation
- Goal 5: Fairness & Equity
- Our Objectives
- Action Plan
About Green Highland Park
About Green Highland Park
We will continue to add new resources to this section. Below, we've provided a preview of the types of resources that will posted here. Check back soon for updates!
Residents
Sustainability Education
• One Day Vancouver’s Online Guides to Sustainability
Work: http://www.onedayvancouver.ca/take_action.php?itemId=97
Home: http://www.onedayvancouver.ca/take_action.php?itemId=68
One Day Vancouver, the community engagement process for the City of Vancouver, developed online guides to involve residents in sustainable practices while at work or at home. The guides offer simple solutions for residents, such as how to test for drafts in your home to reduce energy use, and using window shades to reduce energy use at work.
• Cool New Jersey Handbook
http://www.coolnewjersey.org/files/handbook.pdf
The Building Cool Communities: A Toolbox for Activists and Policymakers by Cool New Jersey is a handbook for municipalities seeking guidance in sustainability practices. Topics covered include: Climate Friendly Environment, Transportation Alternatives, Motor Vehicles and Traffic Management, Energy Management, Carbon Sequestration, Resource Management, and Education.
Businesses
• Sustainable Development Business Program www.genesisfarm.org/sbnetworkrv.htm
http://www.livingeconomies.org/
Sustainable Business Network of the Ridge and Valley is a sustainable business group committed to building a “local living economy” in New Jersey. Living economy communities produce and exchange products.
Students
Organic School Gardens
• The Edible Schoolyard
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html
The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom. Using food systems as a unifying concept, students learn how to grow, harvest, and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. Experiences in the kitchen and garden foster a better understanding of how the natural world sustains us, and promote the environmental and social well being of our school community.
• Organic School Garden Seth Boyden Elementary (Maplewood, NJ)
http://www.kidsregen.org/gardens/2005/sethboyden.php
Each class has access to one or two six-foot-square garden beds to plant and tend however they choose.
• School Gardens- NOFA
http://www.nofanj.org/YouthEdprograms.htm
NOFA-NJ’s goal, as a statewide organization, is to promote healthy food systems throughout NJ. Their pilot youth food education programs in Lawrence Township, with its diverse population of 30,000 people living between Trenton and Princeton, has great potential to serve as a model for New Jersey schools and communities.
Teachers
Sustainability Education
• Sustainability Curriculum in Schools http://www.state.nj.us/dep/seeds/links.htm
http://santa-monica.org/epd/environmental_links.htm
The State Environmental Education Directory (SEEDS), of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, offers a vast amount of environmental education in the state of New Jersey, including field trips, in-class presentations, and classroom materials for teachers to implement in the classroom. The City of Santa Monica website provides a full list of environmental education links to aid teachers.