SUSTAINABILITY

Hopewell Township is a leader in environmental  sustainability.  Our master plan and zoning is based upon “water balance” or the balance between the volume of water removed from our groundwater supplies and volume water returned to our groundwater supplies from rainfall, ponds, and innovative stormwater management techniques.  The Township has also funded the construction of solar panels for its public works building, has begun retrofitting the lighting in all of its municipal buildings, and has mandated that all new budgets include a sustainability consideration.  Hopewell Township is developing new land use ordinances with the assistance of grants from the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions to mandate sustainable design efforts for all new land development.

• Hopewell Township Living Greener Resource Guide

• Green Building Matrix
  
  
• Living Greener Grant Effort (8MB)
  
  
• NJDEP presentation (4MB)
  
  
• January 23 Special Meeting on Sustainability
  
  
• LEED Homes (2MB)
  
  
• NAHB Green Home Guidelines (4MB)
  
  
• In New Jersey, Conserving at Ground Level
  
  
• Green and Greener in Suburban Towns
  
  
• First Sustainable Group Home for People with Disabilities

  
  

Know what your Corporate neighbors are doing for sustainability.

• Bristol Meyers Squibb - Summary Feb. 08
  
  Bristol Meyers Squibb - Hopewell Campus
  
  
• Janssen Pharmaceutica - Environmental Award Energy and Water Savings
  
  
• Merrill Lynch