New Brunswick Wins Sustainable Jersey Award

The City of New Brunswick has received its first Certification Award for Sustainable Jersey.

“The New Brunswick Green Team successfully submitted the Sustainable Jersey application this year and New Brunswick is now part of a select group of 156 cities and towns throughout the State of New Jersey to receive Bronze Certification,” a city news release said.

The voluntary program allows community to develop green initiatives. To become certified, the city had to submit documentation showing various initiatives.

The city was awarded points for each program. Certification requires 150 points. New Brunswick received 235 for its programs.

Among those initiatives are the New Brunswick’s Clean City Block Captain program, which will also be recognized with the Creativity and Innovation Award at the seventh annual Sustainable Jersey Luncheon next month.

“When we’re thinking about being ‘sustainable,’ it is looking beyond making things better for ourselves presently. We’re thinking about how the future will be better for others and how we can keep the sustainable snowball going for generations to come,” Mayor Jim Cahill said in a prepared statement.

For more information about the city’s green initiatives, contact Briana Suffy at bsuffy@cityofnewbrunswick.org.

Photo courtesy City of New Brunswick