Our Green West Orange

Our Green West Orange OGWO is a resident-led 501(c)3 non-profit, which works to create a greener, safer, and more affordable West Orange, NJ.

Membership is free, and we value your input!

06/05/2026

We run an important alert system in town. We need you to donate to keep it going. We have been able to make good progress exposing and defeating overdevelopment. Also the stronger tree ordinance that we worked on is getting trees in the ground for shade, flood control and higher property taxes. Please refill our coffers and create good karma. You are making a difference.

Help stop overdevelopment at the Essex House. Please chip in to protect our community.
05/31/2026

Help stop overdevelopment at the Essex House. Please chip in to protect our community.

A developer wants to put a 95-unit 4-story apartment house on… OurGreenWestOrange needs your support for Save the Essex House Site--No 95 Unit Apartment house

Training session tomorrow night- All welcome.
05/28/2026

Training session tomorrow night- All welcome.

https://ourgreenwestorange.org/latest-news-1/f/critical-night-for-west-orange-at-the-planning-board-wednesday. Overcrowd...
05/05/2026

https://ourgreenwestorange.org/latest-news-1/f/critical-night-for-west-orange-at-the-planning-board-wednesday. Overcrowded schools, unnavigable traffic, flooding, ugly building. We have other ideas for this site, but first this must go. You must go to council chambers IN PERSON to make your voice heard. Wednesday May 6, 2026 6:30 p.m. West Essex Highlands is first on the agenda then 2 others, then Essex House but that could change. You can zoom until you hear the application called and then drive to Town Hall.

The Planning Board will be reviewing Essex House and West Essex Highlands, two development projects that, if approved, could significantly impact our schools’ overcrowding, overburden us with traffic, cause flooding, and...

Listen to music and raise a few bucks to help save the West Essex Highlands 6000 trees on a cul de sac! https://www.clim...
04/28/2026

Listen to music and raise a few bucks to help save the West Essex Highlands 6000 trees on a cul de sac! https://www.climaterevolutionnj.org/event/watchung-forest-benefit/ SUNDAY MAY 3rd. 5-8 PM.

Come and celebrate the glorious land of New Jersey and the beauty of our earth in an afternoon of artistic conversation. Local artists and performers of all kinds will highlight issues of the environment, class disparity, and the current threat of corporate interests which impede upon our rights, ou...

An excellent concert of timely topics in Morristown. Some of us are going. Sunday March 15, 2026. 5pm. St. Peter's Episc...
03/07/2026

An excellent concert of timely topics in Morristown. Some of us are going. Sunday March 15, 2026. 5pm. St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Morristown, NJ

At the time of his State of the Union Address to the nation in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and the nation were wrestling with involvement in World War II. In the speech, FDR identified what became famously call “The Four Freedoms,” which came to symbolize America’s vision for in...

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PO Box 7112
West Orange, NJ
07052

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