Greenable Woodbridge Museum of the Future

Host Your Club Meetings Here!

2010
07.08

The Greenable Woodbridge Museum isn’t just here to teach the public about sustainability, it is also here for civic engagement. The museum provides a free meeting space with plenty of room to accommodate your group. The Mom’s Club did just that and their meeting in the museum was a huge success. Their children had fun interacting with the exhibits, as seen below, and the moms got down to business.

If your club is in need of such a space just contact us through the website and we will help you set up a day and time to hold your meeting!

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Opening Evening Photos

2010
06.30

The evening before the Greenable Woodbridge Museum of the Future’s ribbon cutting, we held a small, private opening to celebrate the completion of the museum with those who worked so hard to bring this concept to life. Below are several photos of the exhibits and people enjoying them:

Woodbridge was the 2009 Champion of the Sustainable New Jersey program. For more information about how Woodbridge won, stop in the museum and visit the Sustainable New Jersey exhibit!

Familiar with CFL light bulbs? This exhibit introduces what CFLs are, how much power they use, and their new shapes and design.

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Hours of Operation

2010
06.21

The Greenable Woodbridge Museum’s hours of operation have changed to better convenience its visitors. The new opening and closing times are:

Monday & Tuesday: CLOSED

Wednesday – Friday: 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Sunday: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thank you.

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Floating All Our Boats… Opportunities to Make a Difference in Woodbridge

2010
06.02

With Stan Kaczmarek, PE, Executive Director of the WISER Corps

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Map and Directions

2010
06.02

The Woodbridge Center mall is located on US Route 1, at the intersection with Gill Lane and Woodbridge Center Drive. Scroll down for Public Transport. The Museum is located on the Upper Level in the JCPenney wing. If you need assistance prior to the opening, please call 908-581-8418 or 973-204-0005.

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Via Public Transport (from NY Penn Station):

Train – Northeast Corridor - Direction: Trenton Transit Center
Service run by NJ TRANSIT RAIL

Depart New York Penn Station
Arrive Metuchen (51 mins)

Bus – 810 – Direction: 810 Woodbridge Center – exact fare
27 mins to make transfer
Service run by NJ TRANSIT BUS

Depart Main St. & Woodbridge Ave.
Arrive Woodbridge Ctr. & Woodbridge Terr (18 mins)

Walk to 444 Woodbridge Center Dr, Woodbridge, NJ 07095
(About 1 min)

The Museum is located on the Upper Level in the JCPenney wing. If you need assistance prior to the opening, please call 908-581-8418 or 973-204-0005.

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Grand Opening Program

2010
06.01

Saturday, June 12, 2010 is our Grand Opening day, starting with the ribbon cutting at 10 a.m., followed by a full day of programs and events.

The current program schedule is listed below. Please bear in mind that we are always looking for additional partners, volunteers, interns, sponsors, exhibitors, event organizers, and eventually a paid staff for the Museum. If you are interested, please email admin@greenablewoodbridgemuseum.org.

Beginning with the official ribbon cutting from 10-12 with Mayor John McCormac, accompanied by singer-songwriter Kathy Moser, we plan to have several special events during the day, including presentations, entertainments, and celebrations.

Program schedule:

10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Opening ceremonies, including the official ribbon cutting from 10-12 with Mayor John McCormac, remarks by various dignitaries, and entertainment by singer-songwriter Kathy Moser

11:30 a.m.: Valerie Montecalvo, President, Bayshore Recycling: Industrial Recycling and Soil Remediation

12 noon: Fred Profeta, Deputy Mayor for the Environment, Maplewood: Sustainable Jersey

1 p.m.: Debra Italiano, Principal, Merintra: Food Matters

2 p.m.: Patricia Boswell, Founder and CEO, Safonique LLC: Sustainable Consumer Products and Packaging

3 p.m.: Dr. Jeana Wirtenberg, Senior Advisor, External Relations & Services, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, Fairleigh Dickinson University: Transitioning to the Green Economy

4 p.m.: Showing and discussion of Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff, with Julia Curtis

5 p.m.: Robert Benjamin, Greenwords; Matt Polsky, Senior Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise; and Jonathan Cloud, Director, Sustainable Business Incubator, Fairleigh Dickinson University, discuss A Sustainable Growth Strategy for New Jersey.

6 p.m.: Sai Sankar, Chief Research Engineer, School of Automotive Enterprise Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University: Training the Next Generation of Auto Technicians for Alternative-Fuel Vehicles

7 p.m.: Omar Solh (IA-AIA, UIA, LOEA, B Arch M Arch), internationally renowned architect: Sustainable Architecture and Technology Innovation.

8 p.m.: Eric Russell: The Future of Water.

Additional activites:

Douglas Cohen, The Inspired Futures Campaign and Chair – Resource Council, National Youth Initiatives, US Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (via Skype) and Elyssa Serilli, Green Collar Futures: Inspired Futures Hands-On Education Demonstration

Opening Exhibits:

Greenable Woodbridge and Sustainable Jersey
Bayshore Recycling
Woodbridge Artisans Guild
HSBC Bank
RSR Electronics
Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Woodbridge Reads
Liberty Science Center
Middlesex County VoTech (reception desks and living walls)
Rainforest Alliance
Steele Kellogg AIA
Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
Borders Books Green Reading Corner
How Long Does Your Trash Last? (Liberty Science Center)
Woodbridge Schools
Petra Solar
Middlesex Water Company
Cradle to Cradle
Save Our Wetlands (Enviroscape)
Green Energy Innovations
General Growth Properties
US Partnership for Youth
A Plus International

— and many more to come!

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Letting People Know about the Museum

2010
05.23

Bob Dombowski and Jonathan Cloud spent the day on Saturday, May 22, handing out Citibank tote bags and information on the Museum at the Woodbridge Citibank location in Woodbridge.

I created the display board for the event, with the past and future photos of Bayshore Recycling, some of the posters we’ve been using, and a couple of new ones:

I also created simple business cards that my information on the front, and the following message on the back:

We handed out materials and spoke to more than a hundred people coming into the bank, and in a few cases were able to speak to them in depth about the programs and the concept. Certainly this is the kind of thing we need to do more of to get the word out, and I believe we can use the display in other locations as well just to get people interested. Let us know if you have suggestions for it.

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Welcome to the Greenable Woodbridge “Museum of the Future”

2010
04.17

The Greenable Woodbridge “Museum of the Future” is a major community outreach project of:

Woodbridge Township’s Greenable Woodbridge program
The Woodbridge Green Technology Park and Incubator
and a growing number of major partners, including…

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Back to the Future

2010
04.16

It helps to get some historical perspective on today’s challenges and tomorrow’s possibilities. We have received these photos from local residents, the first showing the site of the current Bayshore Recycling facility in Keasbey as it was 100 years ago.