Earlier this year, Somerset County and Bedminster Township, along with over seventy-five other governing bodies, endorsed the Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Act of 2009. Thus, adding their support to a coalition of more than “135 statewide, local and regional organizations ranging from sportsmen’s groups and environmental organizations [...]
Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
New Jerseyans Vote Yes On Nov 3rd
Posted in environment, politics, tagged conservation, land stewardship, new jersey, preservation, tax, vote on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Biomimicry is Usually the Answer
Posted in environment, tagged biomimetics, biomimicry, Natural Capitalism, sustainability, waste on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have never really understood, with our early and continuous fascination with Nature, how we as a species find ourselves so far from it. There is little that we produce or create that actually works within Nature. From our houses and skyscrapers to our modes of transportation to the clothing on our backs and even [...]
Importance, Value and the Long View
Posted in business innovation, environment, life, tagged O'Reilly, principles, sustainability on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My own thoughts and ideas on what “sustainability” really means have now begun to be articulated, far more eloquently than I ever could, in Tim O’Reilly’s post, “Work on Stuff That Matters.” His First Principles are: Work on something that matters to you more than money. Create more value than you capture. Take the long [...]
$3 Trillion Dollars…
Posted in energy, tagged energy, iTunes, kawasaki, war on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A collision of feeds — “Imagine” on iTunes and @guykawasaki‘s Tweet about the infographic below — led me down the path of imagining where we would be if we hadn’t spent the estimated $3 trillion on the war…I bet we’d be really close to energy independence already, no?
Food! Glorious Food!
Posted in environment, Uncategorized, tagged agriculture, Battelle, climate change, energy, farming, food, garden, healthcare, Kristof, Pollan on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nicholas Kristof‘s recent New York Times article, entitled “Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’?,” affirmed much of my own thinking about the future of our food source. As part of my responsibility as chairwoman of my local municipality’s Open Space-Farmland Preservation Committee, I am to ensure we enable sustainable agriculture and help improve the economy of farming [...]
