Working for Smart Growth:
More Livable Places and Open Spaces
Using Stormwater Utilities to Address Water Quality and Flooding
The New Jersey Clean Water Council (NJCWC) is seeking public testimony on the practices and approaches of stormwater utilities and how they may be used to help address local flooding, stormwater management and water quality concerns.
Location: NJDEP Public Hearing Room
401 East State Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08625
Experts from community-based organizations, social service agencies, academia, health care organizations, philanthropy and government share proven solutions and best practices in the areas of Healthy Homes, and Adverse Childhood Experiences.
New Jersey Future’s Gary Brune will be speaking.
Location: NJIT Campus Center
150 Bleeker Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Join the Smart Growth Network and the Congress for the New Urbanism for a webinar that examines small-scale housing, accessory dwelling units, multi-family approaches, and other ways to make sure that communities offer a wide range of home choices for people of all ages and backgrounds, thus contributing to more diverse, lively, and economically sustainable communities.
Location: Online
This course focuses on the proper design, construction and maintenance of various green infrastructure stormwater BMPs, offering a number of actual constructed systems to support their feasibility and applicability in different development settings.
Location: Rutgers University, Cook Student Center
59 Biel Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
This class serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of functional design and provides the means to rapidly assess the distribution of hydrology on your site and create useable hydrographs for presentation of your wetland design.
Location: Duke Farms
1112 Duke Parkway West, Hillsborough, NJ 08844
In this session, the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative (PHCI) will lead an introductory training on health impact assessment as a tool to promote community health and equity in planning processes and decision-making.
Location: Rutgers University, Cook Student Center, Multipurpose Room C
59 Biel Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
The award-winning Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit is perfect for community leaders who want to manage stormwater sustainably, reduce localized flooding, and improve water quality.
The Environmental Congress is an annual statewide gathering of environmental commissions, local officials, agencies, citizen groups and environmental organizations.
Location: Mercer County College Conference Center, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor
New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities released its draft Energy Master Plan last month and has scheduled six stakeholder meetings on three days over the coming months.
Location: LMH Room, Toms River Municipal Complex, 33 Washington Street, Toms River, NJ
Join one of three listening sessions this Fall and share your thoughts on what the next ten years might look like for our state and the Sustainable Jersey program.
Location: NJM Insurance Group, 840 12th Street, Hammonton, NJ
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