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posted 3/27/09
New Report on Plastics in the Ocean - this is where the litter goes...Rivers awash in Pharma - Save on Prescriptions, Eat a Fish...not
posted 3/22/09
This Saturday, join the World's first global election between Earth and Global Warming. Visit http://www.voteearth2009.org/home/ for details!
NEW CONCERNS FOR RARITAN CONTAMINATION
EPA issues closure notices for three Raritan sites due to lead contamination.
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990319008
posted 3/15/09
GET READY TO GET WET
A new report issued today raises serious concerns for sea level rise along the East Coast.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/NATLGlobal-Warming-Will-Sink-East-Coast-Report.html
posted 3/13/09
PROJECT PORCHLIGHT JOINS SPONSORS
Project Porchlight has joined our growing list of sponsors and will be giving away FREE compact CFC lightbulbs to the first 150 families at the festival on April 18th. Come early and save $$ on YOUR electric bill with PROJECT PORCHLIGHT!!
ELKS CLUB TO PRESENT BICYCLE TO ANTI-LITTER WINNER
The New Brunswick ELKS Club has generously provided funding to award the winner of the Anti-Litter Poster Contest (currently running in New Brunswick Public Schools) with a NEW BICYCLE! The Festival thanks the ELKS for their generousity and continued public service!
RETURNING TO NEW BRUNSWICK
posted 3/4/09
Johnson Park is lovely place, but we never expected to be displaced from Boyd Park for more than 2 or 3 years. As the Route 18 construction is still ongoing, we felt that it was important to bring the Festival back across the river to recconnect the event to the New Brunswick Community. We fully expect to return to the NEW Boyd Park in 2010 for our 30th Anniversary.
Putting our heads together with the staff at New Brunswick's City Market, the New Brunswick Public Library and members of the City Government, we came up with the idea of holding a downtown edition of the Festival. There are many great shops and restaurants downtown, and with the soft economy, it makes good, green sense for all of us to support our local businesses (and check the Special City Market Offers Link to save $$.)
The one thing we couldn't figure out how to do downtown was the Great Cardboard Canoe Race, a 29-year Festival tradition. Our suggestion of flooding George Street was just not practical (but knowing how the Raritan behaves in the Spring, one never can tell...)
Anyhow, we decided to do something different in lieu of the Canoe Race, and so we are currently running an Anti-Litter Poster Contest in counjuction with the New Brunswick Public Schools Art Teachers.
Litter is an ongoing concern, and directly impacts the quality of not only our city life, but street litter flows into storm drains which, empty into the river, which flows to our beaches.
Come to the festival to see what the children of New Brunswick have come up with to spread the anti-litter message, and join us at the Main Stage at 1pm when Mayor Cahill will award the contest winner a NEW BICYCLE!