Sustainable GT Sections:
Take The Pledge | Green Tips | Sustainable Jersey | Organic Community Garden | Resources | GO Local! Business Directory
Sustainable Jersey Mission Statement
Sustainable Jersey strives for a better tomorrow one community at a time. The program encompasses the three equal, interrelated components of sustainability:
- Prosperity – support your local economy and use
community resources - Planet – practice responsible environmental management and conservation
- People – embrace social equity and fairness
The program is a consensus oriented, science based effort to align the interests and resources of actors from state and local, public and private, for the common purpose of achieving a sustainable New Jersey and world.
SUSTAINABLE JERSEY ™ is a certification program for municipalities in New Jersey that want to go green, save money, and take steps to sustain their quality of life over the long term.
Sustainable Jersey:Identifies concrete actions that municipalities can implement to become "certified" and be considered leaders on the path to sustainable communities
Provides clear “how to” guidance and tools to enable communities to make progress on each action
Provides access to grants, and identifies existing and new funding opportunities for municipalities to make progress toward the actions
