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Green Ridgewood reports flood, energy and outreach priorities; secures community energy planning grant
Summary
Green Ridgewood presented its 2024 accomplishments and 2025 priorities including flood-mitigation recommendations, a community energy planning grant, rain-garden and landscaper training, and student climate education initiatives.
David Refkin, chair of Green Ridgewood, and Beth Kroller, vice chair, presented the group's annual update to the council and reviewed 2024 work and 2025 priorities.
Refkin summarized a Columbia University sustainability roadmap and said Green Ridgewood is pushing several flood-risk measures: increasing wetland capacity, installing detention/retention basins, employing stormwater-velocity reducers, expanding rain gardens in public and faith-based locations, encouraging permeable…
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