Environmentalism
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Eight New Jersey Institute of Technology students travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Sustainable Design Expo.
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Safe and Sound
At the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, seals, turtles and other sea creatures get a second chance.
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Shifting Sands
Beach damage on Long Beach Island is more than a tale of man against sea.
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Reef Madness? (No, It's Art)
A Bay Head-based marine biologist and artist creates a 40-foot-long concrete and steel horseshoe crab for the state Department of Environmental Protection's artificial reef program.
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Green Savings
Katherine and Matt Sheeleigh transformed their Harding Township home into a shining example of energy-efficient technology.
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Back to the Land
The New Jersey Conservation Foundation adopts a three-pronged approach to preserving open space in the Garden State—acquire, advocate for protection, and steward the land.
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Drill Off Jersey Coast? Are You Nuts?
Steve Adubato debates the feasibility of off-shore drilling in New Jersey waters.
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Back To Nature
Piping plovers, horseshoe crabs, least terns, and red knots are among the rarities awaiting New Jersey ecotourists.
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Global Greening
Christine Eibs Singer was visiting a health clinic in Senegal in 1997 when she saw the light—literally.
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The Sheeleigh Project: July/August Update
Work on the Sheeleigh residence was in full gear on my mid-July visit.
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Roiling The Waters
A bill to mandate fluoride in New Jersey’s public water supply has pitted some natural allies against each other. Can dentists, environmentalists, and other groups resolve their differences?
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The Sheeleigh Project: June Update
When I first visited the Sheeleigh house back in March to learn about the LEEDs project I was reporting on, there wasn’t much to look at.
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Boardwalk Into Controversy
Wildwood’s apparent use of rain-forest wood irks environmentalists.
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Turning French Toast To Compost
Nick Smith-Sebasto’s foray into the world of composting was a lot like going to a pool party where everyone wants to swim, but no one knows what the water is like.
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Leeding The Way
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the new wave of ultra-green certification, moves from schools and businesses into private homes.
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Go Green, Garden State
April 3–5: The state’s premier Earth Month celebration, the PSEG GreenFest 2009, welcomes keynote speakers to inspire the global green movement: Ed Begley Jr., Van Jones, Bill Nye (yes, the Science Guy), Daryl Hannah, and New Jersey natives and PBS television personalities Chris and Martin Kratt (above, with their lemur pal Zoboomafoo).
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EcoLogic: Equinox Detox
Pack up the winter clothes, clean out the garage, and scrub those windowsills. It is spring cleaning time, which is good for your closets and floors, but not always for your air, watershed, or planet.
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The State of the State Tree
A bacterium is attacking our red oaks. Will they survive this scourge?
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Reviving the Passaic
Branded by the EPA in 1970 as the second most polluted river in the U.S., the Passaic is on the mend, but much of the hardest work remains.
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EcoLogic: It's Easy Being Green
It is that time of year when everyone likes to don some green and pretend to be Irish. Now that environmentalism is in vogue, a different kind of “greenwashing”—products or businesses using earth-friendly advertisements or labels without the action to back them up—is on the rise.
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EcoLogic: Lights Out
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities president Jeanne M. Fox estimates that the average home wastes a quarter of the hot or cool air it generates, meaning lost energy and wasted dollars.
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