Birding & Wildlife Trails needs your help!

New Jersey's Birding & Wildlife Trails is creating a new Pinelands Guide for the state, which will include Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties. If you fill out their nomination form to help them decide on which sites to include, they will give you a FREE one-year membership to the New Jersey Audubon Society! All of the information needed can be found on the site, located here.

Brighter Planet

From the green minds of the people who brought us the 350 Challenge comes Brighter Planet! - a website designed to help people accurately and easily track their environmental impact. Enter things like your vehicle, home, and diet to find out how large your carbon footprint might be. You can also read and contribute tips on saving energy and conserving the environment. For those interested the site also makes it easy to partially or completely offset your carbon footprint!



Check out the site and help them test their beta version: http://beta.brighterplanet.com/

Add me if you decide to join. Username: Billtacular

New Green Media

From the fine folks over at the Edison Wetlands Association comes New Green Media, a news site bringing you all the environmental and green news from across the great state of New Jersey. Similar to their Wild New Jersey site, this news outlet will bring both exclusive, breaking news as well as important headlines from the mainstream media. Head on over there now to watch a special report on the Raritan Bay Slag Site in Old Bridge and Sayreville.

You can always find links to both EWA-affiliated sites on the right-hand side of New Jersey Outdoors.

Butterfly Walk at DeKorte Park

The NJ Meadowlands Commission and the Bergen County Audubon Society will co-sponsor a butterfly walk this Sunday at 1pm.



For more information head on over to The Meadowlands Blog by clicking here.

Garden Party!

The Somerset County Park Commission is hosting a garden party this Saturday, July 18th from 11am until 3pm in East Millstone, NJ. There is no charge for admission (although donations are always appreciated) and the day will include various speakers, specialty plants and perennials for sale, complimentary refreshments, and live music!

Check out the flyer for more information: Garden Party Flyer

Photograph by clare_and_ben