sJC RESOURCES

Below we have provided references (links) to various sustainability topics, including discussion boards and infographics developed by some of SJC's Education Partners.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

New York City Housing Authority – GREEN, GREEN, GREEN !

Affordable Housing Preservation FAQs

Housing and Community Development Network of NJ

Center for Urban Pedagogy in NYC

Enterprise Green Communities Development Criteria

Enterprise Opportunity 360 Program - Affordable Housing

Public Purpose ESCO (Energy Service Companies) For Affordable Housing

NYC Retrofit Program Benefits Affordable Housing With Lower Energy & Water Costs

AGING IN PLACE aka SUSTAINABLE AGING

Creating Places To Age In NJ / Municipal Best Practices - NJ Future

Surdna Foundation

Housing & Healthcare Collaboration MUST HAPPEN - Toolkit Now Available!

+ART

SJC believes that SUSTAINABILITY is a cultural conversation.  We also believe that art and design have an integral role to play in the reinvention and transformation of Jersey City, towards a more sustainable and climate change resilient live / work place.  For each of our project initiatives, we have a +ART component, holding participating artists as dynamic co-creators of urban design solutions that work with nature, rather than against it.   

Art, Architecture and Design: Transforming Place in Global Cities

Architectural Upcycling

Artscape DIY

CALL - City As Living Lab

Eco Art Space

Gary Snyder - poet laureate of 'Deep Ecology'

JC Fab Lab

Left Bank Art Blog

MEDIA ARTS

Ragazine

Savage Habbit

         Residence On Earth

SJC's Rain Gardens +ART Campaign

BIODIVERSITY

Bees In JC

NWF Eco Schools Biodiversity Learning Pathway

NWF Living Planet Report 2014

NYC Beekeeping

BIOMIMICRY

Applied To Neighborhood Redesign

Applied To Org Structures For Business, Citizen Led Initiatives

BUILDINGS - See GREENER BUILDINGS below

BUSINESS

What is BUY LOCAL ?

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

CSR Reporting - Free Subscription (SJC Favorite - Elaine Cohen is VERY Funny!)

MITSloan Management 2014 Report - Collaboration & Leadership For Sustainability

CSR For Small & Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs)

Schneider Electric - Energy Consultant

ShopRite - Sustainability & ShopRite (2015)

BCorps - Social Enterprise Corporations

New Jersey Based BCorps

BCorps - BE The Impact Metrics

GREENING YOUR BUSINESS

Measuring Success -

SBDC NJ - Free Tech Support on Greening Your Business

US Small Business

Small Business Guide to Recycling - NJ State Chamber of Commerce

Smart Steps Greening Guide by US EPA - Small / Medium Size Biz Focus

Sustainable Jersey Municipal Certification Program Resources

Woodbridge Chamber of Commerce - Recycling Resources

[TRY THIS - google  chamber of commerce nj, recycling  - you'll get a listing of what some of the other municipalities and counties have posted as resources]

>>> NJ -Green Business Development Partner Programs

Eco-Friendly Guide for Airbnb Hosts

CARBON FARMING

CARBON FOOTPRINTS

US EPA Calculator for HOME Carbon Footprints

Business Operations Carbon Footprint Calculator - CarbonFund.org

Commercial Building Carbon Footprint Calculator Options

         Municipal

CITIZEN SCIENCE

CITY OF JERSEY CITY

City of Jersey City Masterplans

JC Ward Map -  City Planning / HEDC

2011 Sustainable Jersey Certification - SILVER

2014 Sustainable Jersey Certification - BRONZE

2017 Sustainable Jersey Certification - SILVER

2018 Resilient Design Handbook

2018 Energy Audit For City of Jersey City Owned Assets - NJ Clean Energy Office / Local Government Energy Audit Program

JC Make It Green - Office of Sustainability

JC Environmental Commission

Mar 2017 Development Map of Jersey City - Jersey Digs

Nov 2014 Jersey City Report On Housing In JC

NEW PERFORMANCE METRICS COMING TO MUNICIPALITIES IN 2016

>>>Sustainable Jersey Municipal Certification Program

CITY OF JERSEY CITY Green Policies - are we enforcing these?

** SEARCH JERSEY CITY MUNICIPAL CODE FOR UPDATES HERE

Mayor Fulop’s Transition Report

Mayor’s Quality of Life Task Force

List of Autonomous Agencies

EPA Consent Decree

CLIMATE CHANGE / CITIES (Also See Resilience Below)

Climate Adaptation

Cities Responsible For Almost 70% of Global Emissions

Climate Change 101

Climate Mama

Climate Central - Cities Designed Like Ecosystems Offer Untold Gains !

CLIMATE CLOCK - HUMAN IMPACTS LAB

CLIMATE MAYORS 2017 - ACTIONS US CITIES ARE TAKING TO SUPPORT THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT   JC IS A SIGNATORY BUT HAS NOT YET ADDED THEIR ACTION PLAN (Jersey City SIGNTATORY)

C40 CITIES

Climate Security Thinktank - SECURITY SUSTAINABILTY FORUM.ORG

350.org

427 Four Twenty Seven Climate Risk Intelligence - Premier Economic Impact Analysis

GlobalGreen.org

Global Warming Explained

Green Apps to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

GRACE Eco-Centric / Climate Change

  • 2014 “Meet the Nexus” Guide - learn how food, water and energy systems are interconnected and be surprised by some of these great factoids !

New certification now available: LEED for Cities and LEED for Communities

See Jersey City Resiliency Masterplan and Climate Adaptation Masterplan

NJ Adapt

NRDC Climate Change Indicators NJ

NRDC Report on Water Related Impacts of Climate Change – NYC Metro Area Profiled

Planning For Sea Level Rise Adaptation at the Site Scale in New Jersey (NOAA)

Project Drawdown

Schneider Electric infographic

Surdna Foundation infographic

2014 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (IPCC)

UPDATE 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (IPCC)

Who Are The People Behind The IPCC ?

US EPA Local Climate Change Podcasts & Webcasts

** For more information on Municipal Certification Programs in NJ see Sustainable Jersey Certification Program below

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Campus Sustainability Resources

NYU's Citizen Science Initiative

Interdisciplinary Courses of Study

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Bergen and Hudson County Partnerships

Civic Action Training

Conflict Mitigation Strategies - Inherent in Civic Action, Community Organizing, and Change Advocacy Work are conflicts between human beings who approach challenges from different points of view. It’s quite useful to develop skills that provide different approaches to bridging conflicts

Empathic World by Shig Matsukawa

Faith-based Organizations Take The Lead

The Citizen's Campaign

CITIZEN SCIENCE

Cooperatives, Learning Communities, Open Source, The Commons

Community Organizing - Coalition Building

  • 5 Calls Tool To Have Community Voices Heard

PARTICIPATORY PLANNING & BUDGETING

Newsletter Update - Gov. Lab

The Participatory Budgeting Project

Expanding the reach of environmental research with Citizen Science

We The People 2.0 Movie Trailer

Tragedy of the Commons, Garret Hardin, 1968 Article

Tragedy of the Commons – Video

Participatory Process Design Guide

TAXES - Understand Tax Abatements & Property Taxes In Jersey City. With These EXCELLENT Infographics. Then consider what we don't have tax incentives for going GREEN - other Cities are doing it.

COMMUNITY HEALTH

Toolkits Database of Best Practices

The Lancet Countdown Project - Tracking Progress on Public Health & Climate Change

COMPLETE STREETS (>>> GREEN Complete Streets)

Smarth Growth America Green Complete Streets

CROWDFUNDING

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ACCOUNTING

Economic Development - Sustainability / Resiliency Focus (also see Green Economic Development and Green Infrastructure - Municipal Best Practices)

  • Real Estate Dev With Neighborhood Revitalization In Mind - Low Impact Development (LID) Opportunities - also see Green Infrastructure and Best Municipal Practices links below; City of Jersey City /JCEC white paper by Tom Gibbons, Chair 2011

  • Energy

EMISSIONS

AIR POLLUTION - CONSIDERED ONE OF THE TOP 5 HEALTH HAZARDS IN THE WORLD

Research

MOSS WALLS (An Innovative Solution)

2030 Architects - Energy Use by Sector + Emissions by Sector

ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EV)

ENERGY (CLEAN, RENEWABLE, ALTERNATIVE)

Governor Phil Murphy New Developing Energy Master Plan For The State Of New Jersey - 2019

BROCHURES FOR ALL PROGRAMS THRU THE NJ CLEAN ENERGY OFFICE - RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND MUNICIPAL

Energy Efficiency Tips - HOME, WORK, AT SCHOOL, ON THE GO by ase.org

JUST OUT- JUNE 2015 ! NJ PACE PASSES LEGISLATURE, WAITING FOR GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE; PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY UPGRADES AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, WATER CONSERVATION ACTIONS. TICK TOCK ON GOV SIGNATURE.

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY Without The Hot Air, new e-book download by David MacKay - everything you need to know, BY THE NUMBERS !!

See also Greener Buildings section below

WHY TALLER BUILDINGS USE MORE ENERGY THAN LOWRISE BUILDINGS

CUT ENERGY USE IN LARGE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS BY 30% USING THESE TIPS

From Energy Monopoly To Energy Efficiency - Institute For Local Self Reliance

TOWARDS A ZERO-EMISSION, EFFICIENT AND RESILIENT BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION SECTOR - 2017 Global Status Report

- Alternative Fuels

- Energy Aggregation (and NJ Clean Energy Choice)

- Solar Energy

Energy Efficiency Resource Sites and Orgs

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES

Partnership for Sustainable Communities

EVENT PLANNING

Sustainable Weddings

FOOD SYSTEMS

Ag in the City (Sept 2015 update - in process of being dissolved, great resources that SJC is in the process of adding to this page !)

Ag Tech

Change Food (this is the new advocacy organization that has emerged from the TEDxManhattan 'Changing the Way We Eat') big FALL 2016 NYC Event Planned - stay tuned !

Foodshed Alliance

Food Routes – Buy Fresh Buy Local

FOOD SHARE- check out Ample Harvest

OCTOBER 2014 GOOD FOOD GUIDE JUST RELEASED - FOOD TANK / JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION

GRACE Sustainable Table

EAT WELL GUIDE Standards / GRACE

National Good Food Network Resource Center on FOOD HUBS

NJ Farm to School

NJ Urban Farm Exemption Law

RedTomato.org - Northeast Food Distribution Hub (AWESOME group / founders of Equal Exchange Fair Trade Movement)

RUAF Foundation - Urban Agriculture, City Regional Focus / Europe and Developing Nations - What can we learn from their supply chain and network strategies here in the US?

Seedstock Focus on Urban Food Enterprises

Table to Table Delivering Food to Those Who Need it Most

US Food Conferences 2012

USDA Urban Ag Toolkit - new!  Includes funding resources.

Wallace Center Food Hub Resource Center

FOOD WASTE REDUCTION

FOOD REUSE & RESCUE

Join The US EPA's Food Recovery Challenge !

New Online Resource Hub - Everything In One Place - FURTHER WITH FOOD !  Center For Food Loss & Waste Solutions - share information, find technical assistance, join 2030 national goal to reduce food waste in US by 50%

EPA's Food Too Good To Waste (FTGTW) Consumer Toolkit

COMPOSTING

SJC Community Composting Initiative

Community Composting Best Management Practices - Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Full Report

RecyclingFoodWaste.org

Video (great!) About Smiling Hogshead Ranch in Queens NY + BOKASHI (yes!) + Mycelium (yes!) 

Community Compost Company - residential and small business pick up services now available in Jersey City !

The Composting Collaborative / GreenBlue

NJ Composting Council

US Composting Council

Why Use COMPOST In Rain Gardens ?

GrownNYC Composting Program

University Food Waste Recycling Efforts

The Food Recovery Network

New Ameripen Study (Jan 2018) Correlating Food Waste & Food Packaging - Waste Dive Summary on Food Packaging as Integrated Solution to Solving the Food Waste Issue -  March 2018

FUNDING

Grant Writing - Develop A Logic Model

Municipal Model For Impact Investing

GARDENING - a.k.a URBAN FARMING

DIY & ADVICE -

FARMING CONCRETE Data Collection Tool

Jersey City Community Gardens Are Already Listed in the BARN !

Five Boro Farm Toolkit - Jersey City New Pilot Group For This !!

Green Food Solutions - Rooftops, Parking Lots, Schoolyards & More !

GrowNYC Resource Guides

The Micro Gardener

My City Garden - Jersey City's Carol Nissan's Garden Blog Site

Mushroom Cultivation Workshop with Sean Walsh, Permaculture Teacher

MYCOLOGY GURU - Paul Stamets, SIX WAYS TO SAVE THE WORLD

NYC Beekeeping

PONICS ! Aero / Hydro - what's next or what about DYI ?  Ideas here

Smart Gardener Planning Guide

SPIN Farming

SPIN Gardening

Square Foot Gardening Foundation

Urban Agriculuture: Policy, Law, Strategy, and Implementation - Comprehensive  New Book by the American Bar Association

Urban Gardens and Soil Contaminants

WINDOWFARMS Based In Brooklyn - What Are These ?

GREENER BUILDINGS - Energy Efficient Buildings

Green Walls

Here's where MOSS comes in - SJC's First Green Wall in JC; Partner JMA 2017, more to come in 2018 !

CityTree of Berlin, Germany will be in the US by 2020

Each CityTree (MOSS TREE) costs $25K equivalent to 275 Trees; avg cost of a tree is $200=$55K for 275 trees.  CityTree with bench for hardscape plazas !

>>>>>United States

2030 Architects - Energy Use by Sector + Emissions by Sector - BUILDINGS

Other Resources for Greener Buildings

CERTIFICATION STANDARDS

LEED Standards - USGBC

Green Globes

Green Advantage

Whole Building Design

FAVORITE GREEN ARCHITECT IN JERSEY CITY - JMA Jorge Mastropietro Atelier

FAVORITE GREEN DEVELOPER IN JERSEY CITY - HOBOKEN BROWNSTONE / George Vallone, President

>>>>>International

RAIN WATER HARVESTING - Designing Buildings Wiki UK

Greener Buildings Consulting Groups You May Want To Get To Know

Eco Brooklyn Inc.

Earthbilt based in Jersey City, NJ

Greener Buildings Materials / Suppliers

ECO Supply Center

Green Home NYC

See also City of Jersey City above for related ordinances where Green Buildings are encouraged, not mandated.

Green Buildings Terminology

GREEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

District Energy Initiatives As Economic Development Driver For Cities

- Municipal Economic Development Planning Models

GREEN HOUSING / NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES

NYCHA Green Guide

Chicago Green Alley Handbook

A CITIZENS GUIDE to LEED for NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT;  HOW to TELL if DEVELOPMENT IS SMART and GREEN by NRDC

Enterprise Community Partners Green Guidelines - active in 22 states as a STANDARD, NJ is NOT one of them

Enterprise Opportunity 360 Program - Affordable Housing

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE - RAIN GARDENS, BIOSWALES, TREES, GREEN WALLS & GREEN ROOFS

START Community Outreach Presentation 2019 - municipal working group SJC participates on

Understand Difference Between Sewersheds & Watersheds

Why Use COMPOST In Rain Gardens ?

Center for Neighborhood Technology The Value of Green InfrastructureWetrofit Jobs Program

The Front Yard Project

City of Jersey City

Community Projects  FIVE PROJECTS ANY COMMUNITY CAN DO TO REDUCE STORM WATER RUNOFF IN FIVE EASY STEPS – thanks for compiling this ioby !

The Green Infrastructure Center Non-Profit based in Virginia (Jersey City JCEC Partner); this is the org which completed Jersey City’s 2015 Tree Canaopy Study

New 2019 Report - Trees Role In Helping Cities Manage Stormwater - 12 Cities Documented

New York City Best Practices

MORE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE REFERENCES UNDER GREEN BUILDINGS & URBAN FORESTRY

ALSO SEE, SJC website page on Green Infrastructure

NJ DEP Green Infrastructure Resource Site Facts, Best Practices, Projects Underway

NJ DEP Municipal TOOLKITS

NJ Future / NRDC

Port of Seattle WA Testing Large Scale Mobile Rain Gardens - love this!!

SOIL SCIENCE MATTERS IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN

US EPA’s New Green Infrastructure Strategy for Communities

Watersheds and Sewersheds - Why the difference matters

MUNICIPAL BEST PRACTICES - GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE MASTER PLANS

Reinvesting in Urban Water Infrastructure through Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plans - Jan 8 2015 NJ DEP, NJ Future Forum Event

CSO Supplemntal Team Resource - NJ DEP

Climate Change Model Ordinances - Columbia Law School

Sewage Free Streets NJ - Statewide Campaign

HOBOKEN - (District Model for Jersey City !)

Hudson County Incorporates ALL Sustainability & Resiliency Planning / Performance Metrics Into Their Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Plan, Including Green Infrastructure In Their Guidelines For Developers

Jersey City Green Infrastructure Masterplan - 2017

South Florida Regional Model

University Sourced

Ashwani Vashishth / Ramapo College

Rutgers Cooperative Research

Washington State University

Nebraska University

Native Plant Society of NEW JERSEY

Rain Garden Campaign in CAMDEN, NJ

MORE ON CAMDEN'S TURN-AROUND

Rain Garden Campaign in KANSAS, MO

Save The Rain Campaign in SYRACUSE, NY

Harvesting Rainwater – Calculators and more

NRDC Report – Capturing Rainwater From Rooftops

Washington DC Could be Jersey City !! and How They Did It ~

US EPA - Green Infrastructure & Water Infrastructure Roadmap Sites

GREEN MAP

JC Green Map

JC Parks Coalition

GREEN ROOFS

HOUSEHOLD ECO-FRIENDLY CLEANING PRODUCTS

Earthworm Cleaning Products - Made in NJ !

HUDSON COUNTY

Hudson County Cultural Affairs & Tourism

Hudson County Planning Division

Hudson County Improvement Authority

INVESTING IN SUSTAINABILITY / Resiliency Strategies For Cities & College Campuses

Green Bonds 101

Impact Investing - Why Measurements Are Important

Rockefeller Report - Impact Investing 101

Rockefeller Impact Investment Report - A New Type Of Business Model

SRI Investing Trends Report 2014 - 10 Edition by  Forum On Sustainable & Responsible Investment, ussif.org

Green Revolving Funds - College Campuses - ALSO APPLICABLE TO CITIES

LAND TRUSTS

D&R Greenway Land Trust

The Nature Conservancy of NJ

MAPPING

MEDIA & CIVIL SOCIETY

Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies (also see Biomimicry above)

Creative Placemaking

Eco Districts US

Energy Districts - Economic Development

Main Street USA

NJ MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

NJ State League of Municipalities

>>>Sustainable Jersey Municipal Certification Program

NJ Department of Environmental Protection

NJ State Planning Resources

NON-PROFIT RESOURCES

Great Non-Profits - Profiles

Non-Profit Resource Center

Salesforce for Non-Profits

Network For Good

PHILANTHROPY

PERMACULTURE

Backyard Permaculture: 12-Step Program

Green STEM Using Permaculture Design Principles (SJC prefers STEAM = +ART !)

Center for BioRegional Living - Andrew Faust

Children & Nature Network

Children's Permaculture Guild

Permaculture For Kids - SJC Sustainable Schools Initiative

Permaculture 101 - BOD Guest Speaker ppt - SJC Monthly Mtg April 7th 2015

What is Permaculture ? (SJC likes this definition; we're a fan of Claudia Joseph,  Environmental Educator / Founder of the New York Permaculture Exchange !)

NOFA onto Permaculture !

Permaculture Design Concepts - Deep Green Permaculture

Permaculture Podcasts by Scott Mann !

Permaculture & Urban Ag in Canada

Principles of Permaculture by David Holmgren

Permaculture Reading List provided by Sean Walsh / Appleseed Permaculture NJ

Research Perspectives on Permaculture - Lieberation Ecology

SEED - Patterns In Permaculture

Women In Permaculture

Global Permaculture Projects & Communities

Urban Permaculture Talks by Geoff Lawton - Permaculture Research Institute Founder

Great Video About Smiling Hogshead Ranch in Queens NY + BOKASHI (yes!)

Mushroom Cultivation Workshop with Sean Walsh, Permaculture Teacher

Be The Solution videos  - Central Florida Urban Permaculture

Permaculture Network of New Jersey

RAIN GARDENS - SEE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE LINKS ABOVE

Image result for Rutgers rain garden side view

RECYCLING - REFUSE, REDUCE, RE-USE, RECYCLE

Global Green Building / Block Ambassador Program - Overview

Greener Corners Presentation to Jersey City 2012 - Bins That Educate or NOT ? Confused about what to Recycle ? So are we :-)

  • Transparent Reporting Is NOT Happening In Jersey City - Where does our trash go and what is our Recycling rate ?

PassaicLaunchFiller

PassaicLaunchFiller

Hoboken Guide to Residential Single Stream Recycling

Hudson County Improvement Authority Guidelines

Jersey City Department of Public Works - Sanitation & Recycling Guide

Jersey City Single-Use Plastic Bag Ordinance - Implementation Coming in 2019

NJ Citizens Resources

NJ Department of Environmental Protection

Portland WA Master Recylcer Program - Community Based Model

Sign Up For Recycling Coach - Search For Different Household Items And How To Dispose

Residential Sustainability - Tips and Resources (contact us if you have more to share for this category !)

Homeowners Guide To Sustainability by Angie's list

RESILIENCE STRATEGIES

C3 Living Design Project - Civic Ecology Value Flows & Methodology + RELi Standard

REVITALIZATION - The Journal of Urban, Rural and Environmental Resilience

Coastal Resilience Index: Community Self-Assessment Tool

City of Jersey City

Institute For Local Self Reliance

Resilience.org

Resilient City

OMA REBUILD BY DESIGN Defense Strategy for Weekhawken, Hoboken and Jersey City

NYC Urban Green Council – Building Resiliency

PlaNYC - NYC's Comprehensive Sustainability Plan

11 American Cities Leading on Climate Resiliency Planning

NEW 2018 - RESI, the USGBC Adopts & Will Develop This New Standard As Part Of LEED (first developed by Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) and its Capital Markets Partnership (CMP) coalition in 2012)

Revitalization News - up to date chronicle of what other towns and cities are doing!

Rockefeller Foundation on Resiliency - 2 articles

SCHOOL DISTRICT SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES

Let SJC and ioby.org Help You With Your School's Sustainability Projects

Teacher & School Program Fundraising Site - Donors Choose !

ioby.org's Green-Schools-Guide FIVE EASY PROJECTS EVERY SCHOOL CAN DO

NJ Farm to School

Composting Model for Schools - Institute for Local Self Reliance

The Cloud Institute

Eco-Schools USA

Creative Change / Educating for Sustainability

Ed Web Resource Site - Curriculum / Best Practices / Program Ideas for Core Standards

Edible School Yards NYC

Edutopia, the George Lucas Education Foundation

FACILITIES - 2016 REPORT ON STATE OF OUR SCHOOLS: America's K-12 Facilities, is Joint Publication by the 21st Century School Fund Inc., US Green Building Council, and the National Council on School Facilities

Green Schools Alliance

NJ School Board Association 'The Bottom Line On Sustainability'

New York City Environmental Education Initiatives

Project Based Learning - Buck Institute for Education

Sustainable Jersey for Schools

Terracyle Outsmart Waste

SOIL

SOLAR - a.k.a COMMUNITY SOLAR

See SJC Project page on Community Solar

Jersey City Needs to Recalibrate 2050 Goals for 2035 Milestones and Join the Sierra Club READY FOR 100 Campaign!

Sierra Club - Guidelines for Community Commitments to 100% Renewable Energy

Coalition For Community Solar Access

Solar Gardens in the Garden State: Community Solar Policy Recommendations for New Jersey (Presentation) Princeton University

Solar Gardens in the Garden State: Community Solar Recommendations for New Jersey (Report) Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

What Community Solar Is & ISN’T – from our friends over at EnergySage

Know what RECs are ? More about Renewable Energy Certificates, your green energy revenue stream here.

Residential Solar Installation Guide

Solar Guidebook for New Jersey Municipalities (US Department of Energy)

True Cost of Solar, Guide for New Jersey

SUSTAINABLE CITIES BEST PRACTICES

Sustainable Cities Collective

Engaging The Community in Urban Design Decisions

Transparency in Government

Measuring Sustainability - GREAT MODEL, City of Jacksonville, FL

Municipal Finances: A Handbook For Local Governments

Public Sector Sustainability Reporting - 2013 UK Perspectives

>>>Sustainable Jersey Municipal Certification Program

TOGETHER NORTH JERSEY - Transportation Planning Authority / North Jersey Region led Municipal Planning Initiatives Focused On Transit Oriented Development  - FOCUS: COMPETITIVE, EFFICIENT, LIVABLE, RESILIENT (includes presentations by Hoboken and Jersey City)

SUSTAINABLE JERSEY CITY (SJC)

SJC Charter - Sustainability, Resiliency & Adaptive Management

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM - SJC'S Certificate Program In Urban Sustainability (For Jersey City)

SJC EVENT PRESENTATIONS & WEBINAR LINKS

>>RUTGER'S LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS TAKE ON JERSEY CITY!

SYSTEMS THINKING - Understand the Interconnections

Alternative Community Designs - NEXT SYSTEMS PROJECT Report

Change Agenda Roadmaps -

SCIENCE OF SUSTAINABILITY

GRACE Communications Foundation – Food, Energy & Water Nexus

Food and Water Watch

Surdna Foundation – Buildings, Transportation, Food & Water

Energy Flow Between Self & Community – EmpatheticCommunities

TOOLKITS (VARIOUS)

TRANSPORTATION

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

We need more Electric Vehicles in JC !  Check out EV Infrastructure Company Greenspot, located right here in Jersey City :-)

TREES - a.k.a URBAN FORESTRY (also see Green Infrastructure above)

SJC’s OpenTreeMapping Census

SJC’s Winter 2021 Education Series For Tree Mappers

  • Bios of Advisors and Educators

CITY OF JERSEY CITY - Community Forestry Management Plan 2015-2019

FUNDING A TREES CAMPAIGN FOR JERSEY CITY - See CROWDFUNDING above and info about charitable donations partner site ioby.org whose platform is totally devoted to neighborhood environmental projects !

GIC Tree Canopy Study sponsored by JC Environmental Commission June 2015

 Trees and Stormwater Management

HEALTH / OTHER BENEFITS OF TREES

NJ Tree Foundation - SJC's community partner for our Rain Gardens +ART Campaign and the JC STREET TREES initiative - next: BIOSWALES WITH TREES !

MAPPING

OPEN TREE MAP - Cloud-based Tree Mapping & Inventory Management Platform

Tree Mapping Perspectives from DeepRoot

OpenTreeMap shows monetized benefits

Philadelphia & Other Cities - Results from their Citizen Science Tree Mapping Efforts - 90 % Efficacy

#TREESPEECH

Story of The 84 Mature Shelterbelt of Trees At Society Hill - (Oct 2018)

PSE&G RECOMMENDATIONS - SMALL TREES FOR PLANTING UNDER UTILITY WIRES

SHELTERBELT OF TREES PLANTED IN CAMDEN - Smart Stormwater Management Strategy !

SMART TREE PIT DESIGN

TREE PIT PLANTING RESOURCES

SOIL GUIDELINES - Important Perspectives on NYC Million Trees Initiative provided by the USDA NRCS

  • Comprehensive Soil Analytics / USDA NRCS

USDA Soil Analysis Data - Hudson County Soil Analysis Complete (See Jersey City Soil Assessments by using this tool)

Tree Stress Study - Drought

URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT / US EPA - PLANT MORE TREES!

US_Mayors-Tree_Canopy_Survey - BEST PRACTICES FROM 135 CITIES !

Know about Cork Forests ?  Check out this amazing organization !

Baltimore City Forestry Initiative 2015

UTILITY INITIATIVES TO CONSERVE ENERGY & WATER

WASTE STREAMS

WATER

Jersey City Water Supply

NEW JERSEY WATER SUPPLY PLAN 2017-2022, State of New Jersey, Department of Enviornmental Protection

WATER CONSERVATION

GRACE H2O Water Footprint Calculator (fabulous family fun!)

Clean Water Action NJ

US EPA New Jersey Water Fact Sheet

GRACE Water Program

H2O Conserve Water Footprint Calculator

Funders Network State Of Water In The US

Water Footprint Consortium

WATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN NEW JERSEY

Water Infrastructure in New Jersey

Watersheds and Sewersheds - Know the difference ?

COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW (CSO)

Riverkeeper.org - CSO Overview

Long-term Control Plans for CSO’s - Opportunity for Municipalities, NJ DEP ppt

Jersey’s CSO Cities:

Elevating the Importance of Upgrading New

Jersey’s Urban Water Systems

Model Water Utility in Hillsborough NJ - Natural Systems Utilities (Bcorp!)

NJ DEP CSO Permitting Program

NJ Future CSO Factsheet

SJC Resource Doc - JC CSO & Green Infrastructure Opportunities!

Sewage Free NJ

Clean Waterways Healthy Neighborhoods (Regional Consortium Including Jersey City)

STORMWATER MANAGEMENT

CSO Supplemntal Team Resource - NJ DEP