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Green' Report Explores Sustainable Economic Growth for the Garden State
A sustainable green economy must meld consumer demand for new products and services and state and federal mandates crafted to support environmental goals.
A green economy can be a "game-changing economic strategy" for New Jersey, but only if reinforced by state and federal policies that actively support green products and services, according to a paper by the senior leadership at the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
The short five-page paper explores ways to develop a sustainable economic growth strategy for New Jersey, recommendations that had been solicited from the institute by a senior member of the Christie administration.
Many of the ideas raised by the paper have been embraced by the state, including ambitious goals to have 30 percent of New Jersey’s electricity delivered by renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power by 2020. The paper repeatedly mentions the need to invest in the green economy, which has experienced ample state support in the past, support that has been dramatically curtailed as the new administration faced a massive budget gap in its first year in office.
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