Acknowledgements
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Commissioner
Robert C. Shinn, Jr. would like to acknowledge the coordination of this
report’s preparation by DEP’s Sustainability Team - Matt Polsky
(Team Lead), Leslie McGeorge, John Hazen, Stacy Ho, Len Colner, and Joe
Carpenter. The Interagency Sustainable State Working Group would like
to extend a special thanks to the following NJDEP staff who were instrumental
in getting this project completed: Michael Aucott, Alena Baldwin-Brown,
Sarah Barrett, Debora Litvinczuk, Peter Page, and Terri Tucker. Additionally,
thanks go to NJDEP staff Gina Cason, Robert Connell, Steve Doughty, Catherine
Drake, Robert Goodwin, Ernie Hahn, Dave Jenkins, Marjorie Kaplan, Sandy
Kreitzman, Virginia Lofton, Marcia Maguire, Charlie Pietarinen, Dave Rosenblatt,
Karen Schaffer, Mike Winka, and Mary Zaren. The members would also like
to thank those individuals from other agencies who supported this project,
including David Crane, Bob Vaden, Indira Ramaswamy, Frank Ferdetta, Sen-Yuan
Wu, and David Joye from the Department of Labor. Finally, the Working
Group would like to acknowledge Randy Solomon, our key partner at New
Jersey Future, for his continuing contributions as the leading citizen
advocate for the Sustainable State Project.
The Interagency Group would also like to extend special
recognition to the hundreds of New Jerseyans who participated in the original
Sustainable State public process to create the goals and indicators. The
Group and New Jersey Future have been diligent about staying true to the
original direction and guidelines laid out by these pioneering citizens.
In particular we would like to thank David F. Moore, who started New Jersey
on this quest for goals. Also, we extend our appreciation to Dorothy Bowers,
Sally Dudley, Pamela G. Frank, Robert D. Graff, Randolph T. Haviland,
Paul Hofhius, Jane Kenny, Donald Linky, Joseph J. Maraziti Jr., Eileen
McGinnis, Carleton K. Montgomery, Ingrid Reed, Martin Robbins, Robert
C. Shinn, Jr., James Shissias, the Rev. Franklin "Skip" Vilas,
and John Weingart.
We
are also grateful for the work of the Project’s Academic Advisory
Committee, outstanding experts in the many fields represented in this
report, who provided us with access to the best research, data, and thinking.
Special thanks to Committee members Candace Ashmun, president of the Association
of New Jersey Environmental Commissions; Dr. Clinton Andrews, assistant
professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development at
Rutgers University; Dr. Henry Coleman, director of the Rutgers University
Center for Government Services; Carl Henn, chairman of the Environmental
Commission of New Brunswick; Dr. Peter Jaffe, professor in the Department
of Civil Engineering at Princeton University; Dr. Robert Lake, professor
and associate director of the Center for Urban Policy Research; David
F. Moore, former executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation;
Dr. Mark Robson, executive director of the Environmental and Occupational
Health Sciences Institute; and Dr. Robert Tucker, former professor in
the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers
University. |
