News & Events
R3C Webinars on Recent Raritan Research
Two free webinars to showcase recent research on the Raritan. Tuesday, November 30, 2021 from 9:00 am to 10:15 am (link to view Zoom Recording) Julie Lockwood Thomas Grothues - Fish Assemblage of the Raritan River Thalweg (link to PowerPoint) Isabelle Stinnette - Aquatic Connectivity Through Climate-Ready Infrastructure (link to PowerPoint) Friday,...
Coffee Klatch – What you’ve learned in the IHC Grant program
Bring your cup of coffee or tea and join the conversation... Join us on Monday, December 6, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm for our second Inclusive Healthy Communities Coffee Klatch! The coffee klatches will be an opportunity for grantees to talk about challenges and strategies on a given topic with other IHC grantees and partners in an informal and open...
Jeanne Herb to serve as Interim Administrative Director of new regional climate resilience hub
Advancing its mission and leadership role to improve climate risk management critical to societal well-being, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will lead a multi-university Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) made possible by a grant through the National Science Foundation’s Coastlines and People (CoPe) Program with expected total...
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...
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...