News & Events
10th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference
Micro to Macro The Future of the Raritan Friday, June 8, 2018 Kathleen G. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, Rutgers Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ 10th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony Our 2018 conference explored emerging contaminants affecting the Raritan and renewed watershed planning efforts that will address new and...
EAC Karen Lowrie co-facilitates PHCI workshop in southern NJ
Karen Lowrie co-facilitated a workshop on May 9 at the Rutgers Atlantic Cape campus with Leigh Ann Von Hagen as part of the Planning Health Communities Initiative. Health Department members from four Southern New Jersey counties learned about Health Impact Assessment and Health in All Policies, in preparation for selecting projects in their counties that...
Micro to Macro: The Future of the Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony – 10th Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony
Micro to Macro The Future of the Raritan Friday, June 8, 2018 Kathleen W. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, Douglass Honors College, New Brunswick, NJ 10th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony Our 2018 conference explored emerging contaminants affecting the Raritan and renewed watershed planning efforts that will address...
Rutgers and Baykeeper Study Microplastic Pollution in the Raritan River
Microplastic is small – the size of a grain of sand or smaller. This emerging pollution is now found all over the world, including the Raritan River. The plastic comes from clothing fibers, packing materials like Styrofoam, and abrasive personal care products like exfoliates. Scientists estimate that total daily microplastic release into aquatic...
New fiscal internal controls for new technology threats: a short video
Join EAC at the annual Regional Plan Association Assembly
Join EAC's Jeanne Herb at the Regional Plan Association annual Assembly. Jeanne will be participating in a panel titled, "Expanding the Region's Carbon Market." For more information or to register, go to: http://assembly.rpa.org/.
See NJSpotlight opinion piece on making New Jersey the healthiest state
Read Jeanne Herb's Op-Ed in NJSpotlight on achieving health equity in New Jersey. Follow this link.
EAC Jeanne Herb joins Rutgers climate scientists in offering testimony to legislative committee on coastal impacts of climate change
On Thursday, March 22, EAC Executive Director Jeanne Herb joined Rutgers professors David Robinson and Robert Kopp as part of a Rutgers panel testifying in front of the New Jersey Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee outlining impacts of changing climate conditions on New Jersey's coastal zone. View Jeanne's testimony here.
Raritan Scholars Looking for Internship Proposals for Fall 2018
The Raritan Scholars program is a great opportunity to engage Rutgers students in a substantive internship as well as an opportunity for you to advance your local projects. The Rutgers Scholars course is a four-credit program that requires an undergraduate student to spend at least 125 hours directly involved in a project that benefits the Raritan River...
New Jersey 2040 Water Demand Study for Public Community Water Supply Systems
A new study by Dr. Dan Van Abs provides a variety of water demand scenarios for New Jersey's 584 Public Community Water Supply (PCWS) systems, targeting the year 2040, including, of course, those utilities operating within and dependent upon the Raritan Basin. The study includes an assessment of how changes in population trends could alter demands, with...
Recent Products
Annual Report on the Economic Impact of the Federal Historic Tax Credit for FY 2018
The Federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC) is a Federal income tax credit that promotes the rehabilitation of income-producing historic properties. This study examines the economic impacts of the HTC (a 20-percent credit since 1986) by analyzing the economic consequences...
Using Computer Simulations to Understand Sustainable Lifestyles and Behaviour
University of the Future
Laying the Groundwork for Dementia Friendly City Centers: Community Visioning and Outcomes
The purpose of this publication: To describe a participatory planning process and the supporting highlights of information used to develop Dementia Friendly City Centers. To illustrate with a case example involving reclamation of underused/vacant shopping center,...