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Your East Amwell Environmental Commission

Who we are:

  • Angelone, Joseph 

  • Celebre,   Alice 

  • Claire,      Frank

  • Corboy,   Joyce 

  • Holley,     Doreen

  • Hummel,  Blaine 

 

  • Kellogg,   Dee 

  • Lewis,      Laura

  • Parsons,   Suzanne

  • Petrus,     Micheal 

  • Sageser,   Dart 

 

 

What we do:

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NJ Farmers Harvest Funds  

“Many farmers want to do more to help the environment, but limited resources are impeding their efforts,” said Alison E. Mitchell, NJCF Policy Farms  Director. Mitchell. “In 2004, 77% of New Jersey farmers that asked for federal help to improve the environment, were denied assistance. The Healthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act of 2007  "is a chance to make sure that we reward – not reject – farmers when they offer to help meet our environmental needs.”    

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                              William Thomas Cain / Getty Images file

 

 

HYDROGEN HOUSE
    Mike Strizki, of East Amwell, lives in the nation's first solar-hydrogen house.          

Now that he's demonstrated his  idea works, his goal is to make the system better and less expensive. (For example, the 10 propane tanks could be replaced by one high-pressure hydrogen tank buried underground.)         

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SOLAR 

Qualms Over Clean Energy That Would Come From 12 Stories Up 

Josh Haner/The New York Times

Published: February 22, 2008

WAYNE, N.J. — Hamburg Turnpike, a six-mile stretch dotted with strip malls and low-rise office buildings, does not seem like the place for innovation, and many people who live here seem just fine with that.

Robert Burke, who owns the Wayne Auto Spa in Wayne, N.J., wants to build a wind turbine, but has run into opposition.

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Sites / Interests   

Buttinger Nature Center offers River-Friendly School stewardship actions include:
 31 Titus Mill Road   Pennington NJ

  • Submitting biological & chemical data
  • Maintaining a riparian buffer zone
  • Restoring stream banks
  • Improving infiltration with rain gardens
  • Managing lawn care
  • Creating a ‘no mow’ zone
  • Storm drain stenciling with ‘Project Turtle’