I'm honored to be joining the New Jersey Audubon Society as Conservation Advocate, so I won't be resuming full-time blogging on www.GreenPoliticsNJ.com in 2009. Instead, I'll work ardently for New Jersey Audubon's crucial goals to conserve land and wildlife for the health and well-being of everyone in our state. On top of nearly everyone's to-do list: renew state funding for open space.

In addition to scanning http://www.njaudubon.org/AboutNJAS/ if you haven't done so recently, click on http://www.njkeepitgreen.org/. The Governor has urged the Legislature to place an interim bonding question on the November '09 ballot -- and we need to work hard to get such a measure passed. We all must urge residents who value clean water, a balanced environment, a healthy democracy, and long-term land values to support open-space funding all year long, and in November particularly.

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Allow me to give a special shout-out to the Sierra Club New Jersey's Grace Sica, who helped connect me with the impressive folks at New Jersey Audubon. The help she offered me is a microcosm of what can make the NJ's Green Prosperity Movement successful -- going out of our way to help each other, being creative, and working with each other more urgently than ever before. These times of epochal change demand it.

After a several-week project offline, I'm beginning to update some of GreenPoliticsNJ's functions, including the extensive NJ Green Calendar.

If I haven't already highlighted your event, please let me know: joe [at] greenpoliticsnj [dot] com.