NJDEP-Office of Planning and Sustainable Communities

The following profiles describe what some NJ towns and one county are doing to become sustainable. The profiles provide (at a medium level of detail) descriptions of each community's programs, plans, hurdles and keys to success.

Municipalities

Bernards Township

Bernards Township Green Team

Belmar (Borough of)

Cherry Hill

Sustainable Cherry Hill

Cranford (Township of)

My Green Cranford

Highland Park Borough

Highland Park 2020: A Sustainable Community, The First Five Years (pdf)- focuses on the Borough’s need to sustain the environment, local economy, and its diverse and changing population.
Leadership and Vision, Highland Park 2020: A Sustainable Community (pdf)
Highland Park's Green Measures (pdf)
Highland Park Green Community Plan (pdf)

Hillsborough Township

Sustainable Hillsborough is a community-based project to create a vision and action plan for the future of the town.

Lawrence Township

Following the principles of "The Natural Step," and working with the local community, Sustainable Lawrence aims to create an 'eco-municipality' in Lawrence Township, New Jersey.
Sustainable Lawrence: Creating an Eco-Municipality (pdf)

Maplewood (Township of)

Maplewood was selected by Clean Air Cool Planet as one of a few municipalities in the country to qualify for a grant to assist in the compiling of a Climate Change Action Plan More information on the Climate Change Action Plan can be found the documents listed below:
- Maplewood Climate Initiative-Proposed Endorsement of Goals and High-Level Actions for Reducing Maplewood's Carbon Footprint (pdf)
- Maplewood Green Day Action Plan (pdf)
The Maplewood Green Day 1 fair was inspired from the planning around the development of Maplewood's Climate Change Action Plan.
Maplewood Climate Initiative

Montclair (Township of)

Newark (City of)

Princeton Township

Summit (City of)