Resource Center
Each day, ANJEC’s Resource Center offers information, guidance and referrals to help environmental commissioners, officials and the public address environmental issues. Send questions via email (resourcecenter@anjec.org) or call 973-539-7547.
Available Information
Recently, common queries to ANJEC’s Resource Center focused on:
- Energy conservation and sustainability;
- Environmental commission powers and management;
- Functioning of municipal government in New Jersey;
- Habitat protection and restoration;
- Land use planning and site plan review;
- Open space planning and conservation;
- Public education and outreach;
- Reducing vehicle emissions;
- Sample ordinances;
- Stormwater management;
- Sustainable Communities
- Transfer of Development Rights;
- Tree protection;
- Water quality and critical areas protection;
The Resource Center also works with ANJEC’s experienced project directors to provide information on issues related to:
- Coastal Planning
- Energy Conservation and renewable technologies
- Green Building
- Green Teams
- NJ Highlands
- Integrated pest management
- Smart Land Use
- South Jersey Bayshore
- Urban and developed communities
- Water resources
- Toxins, chemicals and pesticides
Sources
- Thousands of volumes from academic institutions, government agencies, and other non-profit organizations on a wide variety of environmental subjects;
- Information files on topics from artificial turf to municipal zoning, including environmental planning, open space planning, financing and acquisition, energy conservation, sustainable communities, water resource and wetlands protection, the urban environment, and many more;
- ANJEC handbooks, manuals, resources and periodicals, on commission operations, environmental resource inventories, open space planning, financing and acquisition, water resource protection, and local land use practice.
- Environmental/Natural Environmental Resource Inventories;
- A collection of over 1,000 municipal environmental ordinances from throughout New Jersey;
- Regional and local open space plans;
- A selection of pertinent DVDs available for loan to members.
Contact
Email resourcecenter@anjec.org or call 973-539-7547.
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