Tag: conservation

  • Skip the Stuff: What This New Law Will Mean for NJ

    Skip the Stuff: What This New Law Will Mean for NJ

    By: Leslie Gunnett, Advisory Board Member The nonprofit group Clean Water Action recently introduced a program called ReThink Disposable to decrease single-use plastic waste. They began local campaigns called Skip the Stuff, which require restaurants to only offer single-use cutlery and condiment packets upon request when customers order takeaway. This also requires only reusable food…

  • HISTORY/memory

    HISTORY/memory

    By: Derek Polzer, Advisory Board Member New fallen snow revealshistories, long hiddenbehind the heavy growthof brush & branches& overgrown fieldslaying fallow (forgotten).Parallels rutsledto a stone foundationslowly surrenderingto the forcesthat appall permanence.We call this history(memory) measuredby the linear countof night & day,(later) to be assessedfor its significance,its value to posterity. …paddling ever onward! Derek Polzer Check…

  • Seasonality of Crops in New Jersey

    Seasonality of Crops in New Jersey

    By: Leslie Gunnett, Advisory Board Member I recently attended an event hosted by the Cork Biodiversity Hub titled From Plate to Planet: Seasonal Eating Workshop for Climate Impact. This was part of a nationwide series of workshops during EU Green Week. The Cork Biodiversity Hub is a local community group that supports local rewilding planting…

  • Protected Areas: Reality of How Our Resources are Managed

    Protected Areas: Reality of How Our Resources are Managed

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director New Jersey, and greater North America, showcases amazing, expansive wild lands and natural resources but it does not come without controls. Every piece of land is a parcel- zoned, planned, stewarded by some entity. The protection of nature comes with complex layers- special interests, ownership, policy, stewardship goals,…

  • View from 3rd Mountain: Folk & the Old Ways

    View from 3rd Mountain: Folk & the Old Ways

    By: Derek Polzer, Advisory Board Member I build “Folk” instruments, 5-string banjos & variations on the dulcimer.  There are times when I’m building these instruments it feels sacramental probably due to their cultural origins. These instruments are what I call “earth informed”, because the materials used are wood, gourds, metal, & animal hide, & that…

  • Composting Modernity

    Composting Modernity

    By: Arthur Veilleux, Rewild NJ Movement Member A recent article in Science Advances, “Legacies of foundation species shape life after death”, explored an interesting ecological question: What happens after the dominant organisms in an ecosystem die? The researchers examined forests, grasslands, coral reefs, oyster reefs, marshes, and mangrove systems. Their conclusion was surprisingly simple. Death is…

  • The Voice of the Woods

    The Voice of the Woods

    By: Francesca Mundrick, Founder & Executive Director In January 2020, I was feeling very hopeful. I had just graduated with my Master’s Degree and I was starting my first teaching position at a four-year University. I have always been bright and happy- blessed with good spirits and positive energy. Confident, ambitious, and motivated, I moved…

  • The View from 3rd Mountain: Tempering the Zealots

    The View from 3rd Mountain: Tempering the Zealots

    By: Derek Polzer, Rewild NJ Movement Member  It’s becoming crucial, I believe, that we temper the frantic & panicked demands of the “Green” zealots who are promoting high-tech solutions & broad-brush remedies as ways to address our present planetary “climate crisis” without considering its actual impact of these technologies on habitat & wildlife, nor do…

  • Jane Goodall Revisited “Think Local, Act Local”

    Jane Goodall Revisited “Think Local, Act Local”

    By: Vincent Palmieri, Advisory Board Member Jane Goodall is widely recognized as a pioneer and the godmother of modern environmentalism in American culture and beyond. Nearly eight months after her passing on October 1, 2025, at the age of 91, much has already changed in the societal trajectory before us. Her influential publications speak for…

  • The View from 3rd Mountain: Economics of a Watershed

    The View from 3rd Mountain: Economics of a Watershed

    By: Derek Polzer, Rewild NJ Movement Member –Economics (archaic): of or relating to a household or its management.–Household: a social unit composed of those living in the same dwelling. –The Wild: a place that is self-organizing, self-disciplining, & a self-maintaining system of life that is inherently orderly & free. (Gary Snyder) Spring has arrived, &…