Tag: Princeton Environmental Commission
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New ‘chief of operations’ at Watershed Institute brings extensive environmental policy experience
Conservation leader Sophie Glovier has been named to the newly created position of chief of operations for The Watershed Institute. Currently, Glovier is the assistant policy director at The Watershed Institute where she works with community members and local governments “to develop and implement policies and practices to address pressing threats to our water and…
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Opinion: Changing the Landscape project team publishes update on key accomplishments
Climate change and its consequences began to wash right up to our doorsteps this summer when Mother Nature brought severe storms, tornadoes and significant flooding to New Jersey, including the Princeton area. It made us all realize just how vital the responsible stewardship of our land and waters is to the future health of…
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Update on Princeton’s sustainable landscaping project
As spring slides into summer and the sound of cicadas compete with the sound of traditional landscaping, seeds of hope have taken root in Princeton. The Changing the Landscape: Healthy Yards = Healthy People/Cambiando el Paisaje: Jardines Sanos = Gente Sana project kicked off in January and is making progress. The project seeks to move…
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Hilltop Park improvements on hold as turf field debated
The fate of proposed improvements to Hilltop Park, which would have included a synthetic turf athletic field and new field lighting, has landed squarely in the Princeton Council’s court. The Princeton Recreation Commission announced at its March 25 meeting that the project had been put on hold – one day after the Princeton Environmental Commission…
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Opinion: Resident supports action to reduce harm from landscaping machines
Let me add my voice to the chorus of pleas I have seen in the paper in recent weeks and months to do something about the noise and the effect on our air quality from leaf blowers and, I would add, from other machines driven by the same inefficient and highly polluting small engines. Beyond…
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Opinion: All Princetonians are equally deserving to be safe from known harms and nuisance
2020 has been a hard year for everyone. I lost my best friend, Dr. Stephanie Chorney, a local artist, grassroots activist, member of the New Jersey Environmental Lobby and former co-chair of the Princeton Environmental Commission. When I am struggling, my mother reminds me that “God will send a messenger.” Stephanie was that messenger for…
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Opinion: Ask landscapers to limit gas-powered leaf blowers to limit spread of COVID, noise pollution
The Princeton Board of Health and the Princeton Environmental Commission have suggested that we talk to our landscapers and ask them to limit or discontinue their use of gas-powered leaf blowers because gas leaf blower pollution worsens COVID-19. I can testify from personal experience that doing this can really work. I talked to my landscaper.…