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USDOE, NJBPU provide sustainability planning resources for resilient municipal microgrids
Download report: Development of Local Government Resilient Microgrids The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design announces the launch of microgrids.io, a web-based resource focused on planning and developing sustainable, resilient local government microgrids locally and nationally. Local government microgrids, also known as “town...
Foundations for Access and Inclusion in your Community Two-Day Training
The New Jersey Division of Disability Services provided a two-day training by the National Center for Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) to lay the foundation for providing access and inclusion in your communities. The virtual training covered disability education, identifying barriers, assessment, implementation, and more. The two-day...
Coffee Klatch – Working at the Municipal Level
Bring your cup of coffee or tea and join the conversation... Join us on Monday, July 26, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm for our inaugural Inclusive Healthy Communities Coffee Klatch! We heard loud and clear from all of you that you would like to have more opportunities to engage with your fellow IHC grantees. To help facilitate this, we are setting up a series...
EAC’s work in C2R2 highlighted in Rutgers Magazine
Read about EAC's participation in the Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience Training Program in the current edition of Rutgers Magazine. Learn more here.
Workshop on Effective Communications for IHC Grantees and Partners
Communications consultant John Gattuso, Gattuso Media Design, conducted a dynamic workshop on effective communications for your Inclusive Healthy Communities grant program via Zoom on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Topics included creating a communications plan, framing your message, developing content, and establishing an efficient communications practice. ...
Matt Campo works with colleagues to develop webinar series incorporating SLR into urban planning decisions
EAC's Matt Campo worked together with colleagues from Washington State Sea Grant and the American Planning Association's Mazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Division (APA HMDR) to develop a 4-part webinar series on incorporating sea-level rise into urban planning decisions. The Planning Webcast series hosts the webinar recordings and supporting...
EAC Executive Director Jeanne Herb to give keynote at NJ History and Historic Preservation Conference
The EAC Group's Executive Director, Jeanne Herb, will give the keynote address at the 2021 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference on June 17, 2021. The NJ History and Historic Preservation conference is the annual state-wide educational opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and volunteers in the fields of...
Jeanne Herb discusses Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience Initiative in short video
In this short video, Jeanne Herb, Executive Director of the EAC Group at Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, describes the Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience (C2R2) Initiative, which is an innovate and interdisciplinary certificate program that trains gradate students to better integrate all the elements of coastal systems and become...
Dr. Karen Lowrie leads planning team for City of Elizabeth revitalization projects
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D., is leading EAC's work on the planning team for two different neighborhood revitalization projects in the City of Elizabeth, NJ. Working with the Elizabeth Development Company, Dr. Lowrie is helping to prepare neighborhood revitalization plans for the Midtown District and for the Elizabethport/New Point Rd. neighborhood as part of the...
Dr. Karen Lowrie to co-lead Health in All Policies Continuing Education Training Course
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. at the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group and Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP/PP at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (both at Rutgers' Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy) will co-lead "Health in All Policies (HiAP)", an on-line course offered through Rutgers Continuing Education that is recommended for...
Recent Products
Generating synthetic occupants for use in building performance simulation
Occupant behaviour simulation frameworks can employ synthetic populations to characterize occupancy and behavioural patterns in buildings based on observed demographic data at a certain geographical location. For buildings, very few synthetic occupant populations have...
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the NJCEP Energy Efficiency Programs: FY2018 Retrospective Summary Report & Avoided Costs
The Rutgers Center for Green Building (RCGB) of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy is contracted by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) to conduct cost-benefit analysis of the FY2018 residential, commercial and industrial New...
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the NJCEP Energy Efficiency Programs: FY2017 Retrospective and FY2019 Summary Reports with Avoided Costs Commentary
The Rutgers Center for Green Building (RCGB) of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy was asked by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the FY2017 residential, commercial and industrial New...
Development of Local Government Resilient Microgrids
Also referred to as “community” or “town center” microgrids, local government microgrids are defined as “microgrids developed in downtown areas of communities that deliver power to a physically non-contiguous group of critical facilities, often involving multiple...