admin August 15th, 2006
The Association of NJ Environmental Commissions has a free publication that you can use to educate yourself and others in this very important topic. It is titled “Open Space is a Good Investment — the Financial Argument for Open Space Preservation“. We encourage you to read this article. Their web site also has an open space page and PDFs of ANJEC publications that might be of interest to you:
admin August 1st, 2006
“Have you ever noticed that there aren’t a lot of parks in Hoboken? I have. I think I can count the number of parks in the city on one hand and those that exist aren’t very large. I’ve been seeing flyers, mailings, and advertisements for different pro-park non-profit groups and got interested in what they have to say. After meeting them, its become very obvious we do not have a good park development plan - and quite the contrary, have an over development problem. I’m not going to get into the problems of over development yet - I’ll save that for another day. But what I will do is try and put those who come to visit this blog in touch with the various organizations that support more park space for our us, our children, and our pets. If you like what they are working towards, please contact them and lend any support you can in any way possible. Even by…” Continued at Hoboken Blog.
