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Shout-outs: environmental award winners

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Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey Pinelands Eco Scienteers, Little Egg Harbor

Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey
Pinelands Eco Scienteers, Little Egg Harbor (Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

A number of local environmental activists and students recently won environmental awards.

Congrats to all the winners!

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Here’s a list:

Clean Water Action awards

From left to right, Jenny Vickers, Clean Water Action communications manager; Louise Usechak; Amy Goldsmith, Clean Water Action state director; and Janet Tauro, Clean Water Action board chair

From left to right, Jenny Vickers, Clean Water Action communications manager; Louise Usechak; Amy Goldsmith, Clean Water Action state director; and Janet Tauro, Clean Water Action board chair

Louise Usechak of Shrewsbury and the Monmouth County League of Women Voters, Life Time Achievement Award. Usechak received the award for her tireless efforts and victories covering a wide range of environmental issues. Through her many leadership roles with the Monmouth County and New Jersey League of Woman Voters, Shrewsbury Environmental Commission, SPACE (Sound Planning and Clean Environment) and Navesink River Study, she educated and engaged others to achieve long-lasting environmental policies that will benefit our communities and state for many generations to come, according to a statement.

D’Arcy Rohan Green of Bay Head, Grassroots Environmental Award, for her lifelong devotion to environmental causes. She serves on the Pinelands Commission, is Bay Head Council president and served for many years on the borough’s Environmental Commission. She has also served with several environmental advocacy groups, including Clean Water Action, Save Barnegat Bay and the advisory board of Clean Ocean Action, among other efforts, according to the statement.

Shout-outs: Kirk Moore, NY/NJ Baykeeper

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Champions

Angela Contillo Andersen, Long Beach Township. Anderson is the environmental coordinator for the township and a Barnegat Bay Eco-Kayak tour guide. A tireless environmental steward, she has written and been awarded grants for rain barrels, a school garden, school compost programs, pollination gardens and hydration stations, according to an EPA statement. She is also a member of the boards of the Association of New Jersey Recyclers and Ocean County Solid Waste Advisory Council. She is a columnist for Bay Magazine and the SandPaper.

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2014 President’s Environmental Youth Awards

Pinelands Eco Scienteers, “It’s a Pressing Matter,” Little Egg Harbor. A group of high school students from LEH discovered that in many parts of the world, wood from nearby forests is the only fuel available for cooking meals, leading to widespread deforestation. Under Stephen Kubricki’s guidance, the students worked for four years to develop and distribute low-cost briquette presses that use bio-waste products such as peanut shells, corn stalks and banana peels – specific to each country where deforestation is a problem. They field-tested their press in Guatemala and, with fellow students, completed 100 mini-presses for shipment to rural villages, according to the EPA statement.

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U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program/National Science Teachers Association eCYBERMISSION STEM Competition

6th grade Team Bulked Out, Little Egg Harbor, first place winner in New Jersey. Team Bulked Out worked with team advisor Patricia Naples to design and build an expandable bulkhead that will hold back rising flood waters, protecting their community during storms. Through the eCYBERMISSION website, Team Bulked Out created a mission folder – the official write-up of their project – that requires students to work through all steps of the engineering design process before submitting their work to be evaluated by a panel of virtual judges, according to a statement. In the next round of the STEM competition, regional winners will be determined by judges who evaluate the top three teams from each region in each grade level. Sixty teams will compete to move on to the National Judging and Educational Event in June. The final winning teams then compete at the national level, receiving an all-expenses-paid trip to the event on June 15 to 19 in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

$50M taken from NJ child protection fund


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