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Kick Off Your Green Fair
or Green Challenge with a Film!
Inspire your community! Sustainable Hunterdon has acquired the public screening rights to three highly motivating environmental films. The films are available for loan, free of charge, to any Hunterdon municipality interested in hosting a screening. Film screenings are a great way to launch a Green Challenge (10 pts) or to kick off a Green Fair (10 pts). A brief description and trailer for each film is listed below, along with a few "green challenge" ideas. To reserve a film for your upcoming Green Event, contact Tara Shepherd, 908-788-5553.
Bag It! (Reel Thing Films, 2010)
An average guy makes a resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store. Little does he know that this simple decision will change his life completely. He comes to the conclusion that our consumptive use of plastic has finally caught up to us, and looks at what we can do about it~starting today.
 | | Bag It (2010) Trailer |
Bag It: Green Challenge Ideas
Human Footprint (National Geographic Channel, 2008) Presents an overview of individual consumption over a lifetime and the impact to our environment~ our human footprint.
 | National Geographic Channel:
Human Footprint (2008) |
Human Footprint: Green Challenge Ideas
The Clean Bin Project (PegLeg Films, 2010)
A competition where less is more! Follow young couple Grant and Jen for 1 year as they share moments of humor, struggle, and hope as they compete with each other to give up consumerism and produce zero garbage.
 | | The Clean Bin Project - Trailer |
Clean Bin Project: Green Challenge Ideas
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Action Item: 20 points
Implementing "Complete Streets" Workshop- 4/23/12
The New Jersey Department of Transportation will hold a workshop on Complete Streets on Monday April 23,
in the Multi Purpose Room at the Hunterdon County Administration Building, 314 State Route 12,
Flemington, NJ.
Registration and coffee will start at 8:30 am, with instruction running from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. PDH and AICP CM credits may be available for professional staff.
To RSVP or ask any questions you may have, please contact Peter Kremer at 609-512-3539 or by e-mail at kremer@pbworld.com. You may also contact Tara Shepherd, HART executive director at 908-788-5553 or tara@harttma.com. |
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Green Teams~ Share your Story!!
Sustainable Hunterdon is interested in hearing about the work that your municipal Green Team is undertaking so that we may share success stories with other Hunterdon municipalities! Send us an email and tell us about the great work you are doing! info@sustainable-hunterdon.org
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 Mark Your Calendar
Earth Day 2012
Global Awareness Initiative
Sunday, April 22, 2012
www.earthday.org
http://act.earthday.org
Complete Streets Workshop
Monday, April 23, 2012
8:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Sponsored by NJDOT
Hunterdon County Administration Bldg.
Route 12, Flemington, NJ
"Planning Healthy, Sustainable Communities" Symposium
Thursday, April 26 -Friday, April 27, 2012
Heldrich Center, New Brunswick
Hunterdon County Bike to Work Month- May 2012
May 1-31, 2012
Participants pledge to cycle to work
rather than drive one or more days during the month of May.
For more information on any of these events, contact Tara Shepherd, tara@harttma.com
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Bag It: Challenge Ideas
1. Participate in a Weeklong Plastic Detox- Challenge your community to commit to going plastic-free for one week, starting on the day of the screening. This means ditching plastic bags, plastic beverage bottles, disposable plastic packaging and to-go coffee cups (to name a few), and replacing them with reusable bottles, bags, and containers.
2. Organize a Waterway Cleanup- Billions of plastic bags and bottles end up in our waterways each year. Invite the community to clean up a local body of water; this is a great way to reduce plastic pollution and bring your community together to take action.
3. Become a Bag It Town- Start changing the habits of every consumer in your town by promoting the use of resuable bags! Or, go one step further and local ordinance to make your community plastic bag free and becoming a Bag It Town!
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Human Footprint: Challenge Ideas
1. Introduce "The 100 Mile Diet"- Based on the book "The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating" by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon, encourage your community to source their foods within a 100 mile radius. This can mean participating in a community garden, shopping local farmers markets, farms and farm stands, or finding local restaurants that serve locally produced food!
2. "Buy Sustainably" Challenge- Remind residents to ask themselves, "Do I really need to buy this?" If the answer is yes, challenge further by encouraging them to "Buy Local", "Buy Fair Trade", "Buy Green" and "Buy it to Last". Engage local merchants to help identify and promote appropriate products in their store displays.
The Clean Bin Project: Green Challenge Ideas
1. Re-commit to recycling! Challenge households to increase their recyclables by 10%- include glass, aluminum, paper, magazines, etc. Whatever is appropriate in your area.
2. Countertop composting. Provide residents with information on how to set up a countertop compost container and the value of composting! Strive for every household to compost!
3. Take Out Container Challenge- Challenge residents to give up take out containers for one month. Encourage them to bring glass containers from home when going out to eat.
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Sustainable HunterdonSM is an initiative of HART Commuter Information Services, in coordination with the Hunterdon County Planning Board and Sustainable Jersey. The mission of Sustainable Hunterdon is to serve as a resource to Hunterdon municipalities to encourage sustainable planning practices within Hunterdon County, NJ.
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