Category Archives: Environment

RED BANK: This is what democracy looks (and, maybe, smells) like: a water rate hike, moments of silence, and a weird exchange about body odor.

RED BANK: Contractors for a train station redevelopment project hit a major sewer line, sending sewage into the storm drains, officials said. Click for more.

RED BANK: Workers have begun a long awaited remake of Marine Park on the Navesink River.

RED BANK: Two downtown clothing boutiques fill the Vogel with eye popping sustainable punk fashions and their screaming fans.

Red Bank council members call water rate hike painful but necessary - and better than privatization. (click to read)

RED BANK: Pearl St. Consignment and Shedhead Vintage team up Wednesday night on "The Punk Edit Fashion Show," a sonic and visual phantasmagoria. (Click for more)

A mother deer and her fawn were spotted between a row of garages on Hudson Avenue and some trees alongside the Broad Street parking lots. Redbankgreen has video of the cuteness.

RED BANK: In 2014, officials said the cleanup of a contaminated former landfill along the Swimming River would take five to ten years to finish. A decade later, they haven't even started. (click to read)

Red Bank Green's pick of seratonin-boosting events for a wonderful May weekend.

Video: The Monmouth Boat Club has stood on the banks of the Navesink River in Red Bank for 145-years. But the pilings that hold it up are rotting away. A plan is being hatched to lift the historic structure and build a higher foundation. (Click to read/watch)

RED BANK: Crews have replaced 345 lead water service lines so far. There are likely hundreds more to go as the massive lead service line project moves to the eastern portions of town. (click to read)

RED BANK: A morning visit to a little known birding hotspot along the Swimming River reveals an explosion of sound and color.

RED BANK: "Vapor mitigation systems" installed at Marion Street condo complex built on former dry cleaner site.

RED BANK: Enforcement won't start until July. But many eateries are already following a new "by request only" plastic utensil law.

RED BANK: To celebrate the pretty yellow flowers demonized by the lawn industrial complex, we held a dandelion display contest for Earth Day. Meet the winner.

RED BANK: From a "trashion show" of dresses made of garbage to displays on how to save a school from sea level rise, photos from the Earth Day Green Fair.

RED BANK: Earth Day contest offers prize and bragging rights for the lawn with the best dandelion display.

RED BANK: Replacing a 60-year-old billboard at the town's entrance with a new digital version: an upgrade or an albatross?

RED BANK: In the midst of an extended rainy streak, trees all over town are proclaiming the full-on arrival of spring. Feast your eyes here.

RED BANK: Underutilized land, acres of parking lots. Study finds train station fits bill for an "area in need of redevelopment."