News & Events
Join EAC for HIA: Incorporating Health into Planning & Decision-Making – Feb 23
Join EAC for an upcoming training course, Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making, offered through the Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education. In this session, facilitators from the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative will lead an introductory training on health impact assessment as a tool to...
EAC Associate Director Jeanne Herb is quoted in an article regarding New Jersey rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
EAC Executive Director Jeanne Herb is quoted in an article regarding New Jersey rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read the full article here: https://thinkprogress.org/new-jersey-to-rejoin-rggi-0d2d8dbde287/ Image from ThinkProgress.org
Save the Date: Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference – June 8
Save the Date: Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference. The 10th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference and Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, June 8, 2018. Mark your calendar now and visit http://raritan.rutgers.edu for more information soon.
EAC Supports Age-Friendly Planning in Elizabeth, NJ
Meet EAC team member, Dr. Karen Lowrie and hear about her work building healthy communities for aging populations in the City of Elizabeth. With support from the Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation, EAC Associate Director Dr. Karen Lowrie is working with a collaboration of partners through Lifelong Elizabeth, a community led, city-endorsed initiative that...
EAC’s Stacy Krause and Matt Campo partner with a Rutgers team and others to advance a regional resilience plan in northern Monmouth County
EAC’s Stacy Krause and Matt Campo, collaborate with a Rutgers team and others to advance a regional resilience plan in northern Monmouth County. In partnership with Rutgers colleagues at the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, EAC team members Stacy Krause and Matt Campo are working with the New Jersey...
EAC’s Jennifer Whytlaw, Jeanne Herb and Karen Lowrie win grant from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
EAC’s Jennifer Whytlaw, Jeanne Herb, Dr. Karen Lowrie and Dr. Michael Greenberg win grant from the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps. Principal Investigators Jennifer Whytlaw and Jeanne Herb and partners, Dr. Karen Lowrie and Dr. Michael Greenberg, were one of four teams across the country to win a grant award from the County Health Rankings and...
EAC’s Jeanne Herb is appointed to Governor-elect Phil Murphy’s energy and environment transition team
EAC’s Jeanne Herb is appointed to Governor-elect Phil Murphy’s energy and environment transition team. EAC Associate Director, Jeanne Herb, was appointed to serve on Governor-Elect Phil Murphy’s transition team on Energy and the Environment. (see: http://transition2018.nj.gov/). The Governor-Elect has given considerable credit to the work of his...
Second Round of Mini-grant and Internship Awards Announced
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) has awarded a combination of eleven mini-grants and internships to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues. The recipients and project titles are: Kaixuan Bu (Dept. Marine & Coastal Science, School of Enviromental &...
Energy Efficiency Evaluation: The Importance of an Independent and Objective Evaluator
Energy efficiency is frequently promoted as the lowest cost "resource" to achieve consumer cost reductions, improve the economy and reduce environmental impacts. One challenge with energy efficiency is measuring it. To quantify the impact of an energy efficiency device, program or portfolio, a "but-for calculation" is required. What would have been the...
Join EAC at Social Coast 2018! – February 5 to 8
Join EAC at Social Coast 2018! NOAA’s Social Coast Forum brings together researchers and practitioners from around the U.S. to share how social science tools and methods can address the nation’s coastal challenges. EAC Team member Matt Campo will discuss his collaborative work with Jennifer Whytlaw to integrate dynamic web-based mapping tools into static...
Recent Products
Rutgers researchers examine opportunities for state climate policies to advance equity
On September 5th, 2019, experts at Rutgers University released Field Notes: Equity and State Climate Policy, an independent study based on more than 70 interviews with state officials, stakeholders and advocates. Led by Jeanne Herb and Marjorie Kaplan of Rutgers, this...
Delaware River Watershed Initiative Restoration and Land Protection Practice Diffusion Survey
Malone, Sara, Karen Lowrie, Jeanne Herb and Michael Greenberg. 2019. Delaware River Watershed Initiative Restoration and Land Protection Practice Diffusion Survey. Prepared for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The Environmental Analysis&...
Intersection of Race, Income and Environmental Factors in New Jersey: A Screening Analysis
Whytlaw, Jennifer, J. Herb, and M. Greenberg. July 2019. Intersection of Race, Income and Environmental Factors in New Jersey: A Screening Analysis, Environmental Analysis & Communications Group, Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
NJ Multifamily Baseline Study
In coordination with Rutgers Center for Green Building (RCGB), ADM Associates, Inc. (ADM) conducted a baseline study of multifamily properties in New Jersey (hereby referred to as the Multifamily Baseline Study) in 2018. The study was funded by the New Jersey Board of...