Published on March 19, 2012

Mayor Janice S. Mironov announced that East Windsor Township has achieved Bronze Level Sustainable Jersey Certification. . Sustainable Jersey is a certification program that supports community efforts to improve the environment by providing New Jersey municipalities with tools and training, and financial incentives to support and reward communities as they pursue sustainability programs.

East Windsor Township earned a minimum of 150 action points, including priority actions and creation of a municipal Green Team, to be certified. East Windsor received action points for many Township initiated programs and actions undertaken by Mayor Janice Mironov and Council Members, including creation of a farmland preservation plan, inventory and upgrade of municipal buildings for energy efficiency, community recycling/paper shredding events, Buy Local campaign, “Cut it and Leave it” program, Backyard Composting program, tree protection ordinance, environmental assessment ordinance, sustainable land use commitment, green building policy and community outreach programs.

Mayor Mironov stated, “Sustainable Jersey is a certification program available to municipalities in New Jersey that want to ‘go green’, save money, and take steps to sustain long term environmental quality for their community.” Mayor Mironov continued, “The certification recognizes the Township efforts in recycling, environmental resource protection, energy conservation, sustainable land use practices and furthermore enables East Windsor Township to be eligible for future grants and funding opportunities.” Mayor Mironov recognized and praised resident Rohit Palayekar, a high school junior in our East Windsor Regional School District, for his excellent volunteer efforts in assisting the municipality to achieve Sustainable Jersey certification. Rohit interned with Township during the summer of 2011, is a student member of the Township Clean Communities Committee and was appointed by the Mayor to the Municipal Green Team.

Launched in 2009, Sustainable Jersey is a certification program for municipalities in New Jersey. New Jersey is the first state in the nation to have a comprehensive sustainability program for communities that links certification with strong state and private financial incentives, and a fully resourced program of technical support and training. Sustainable Jersey is 100% voluntary and each town can choose whether it wishes to get certified and the actions it wants to do in order to achieve their goal.