Charisma Acey will share her findings and experiences with women’s responses to the lack of service delivery and networked infrastructure within the context of their roles and responsibilities in the household, sense of community, and opportunities to participate in urban governance in Nigeria and Uganda.

Local foods are all the rage, but what happens to all the food waste? Learn how planners can play an active role in food waste diversion. Explore issues of how food waste is connected to climate change, hunger, and air quality. Walk through how the Mississippi Gulf Coast planned for food waste diversion, with a focus on sustainability and livability. Examine strategies that offer opportunities for more sustainable, food security, and livable regions.

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Regularly scheduled Executive Committee Meeting.

The APA-NJ Legislative Committee will be convening to discuss the draft Redevelopment Policy Guide and Summary, draft Housing Policy Guide and the status NJ Transit's Parking Privatization plan.

The webcast participant will get a glimpse of twenty years into the future for what can be done to see how to provide mobility in our communities. Five modes of local transportation are presented: walking, bicycling, sharing public vehicles, sharing private vehicles, and driving.

January APA-NJ Housing Committee Meeting

This session is a primer to explore the integration of sustainable energy strategies into the urban context, starting from the earliest stages of planning to ensure heightened environmental performance at the building, site and community scale. Strategic energy planning, the setting of realistic targets and goals and developing a systematic strategic plan for clean energy integration and implementation will also be examined.

In Maryland we are leading the nation in not only thinking about change, but in preparing for the future. This session will highlight the emerging importance of development economics in realizing land use visions. The linkage between land use plans, implementation strategies and revenue generation for delivering infrastructure, will be discussed.

Professional Planners and Dual licensed Professional Planners/ Landscape Architects with AICP standing will be happy to know that “Natural Leaders”, the NJASLA January 29-31 Annual Meeting and Exhibition is approved for 19 AICP CMs for eighteen educational sessions.

Tourism-related activities are an increasingly important component of rural economies providing income and diversification to rural communities. This webinar will examine current trends in rural tourism, which are being shaped by a rapidly shifting economic landscape and ongoing demographic change. 

Annual Retreat for the APA-NJ Executive Committee

The 2012 AICP Exam Review Series is being co-hosted by the North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, and Pennsylvania chapters of the American Planning Association. Speakers and presentation materials are in process. Members of participating chapters in the Planning Webcast Series are invited to participate.

As communities struggle to balance their budgets, innovative waste management and recycling approaches can help shore up the bottom line while creating local business opportunities. Join Andrew Dane, Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc (SEH), and Dr. John Katers, UW-Green Bay, to learn how planners can help communities identify and implement waste re-use opportunities, rural ag/waste to energy opportunities, and recycling best practices.

The afternoon will focus on the changing nature of volunteerism, and now your local program can respond to volunteers interested in only short term or bite sized assignments. We will also discuss how the role of the Team chairperson must change given the casual nature of many volunteer assignments

The 2012 AICP Exam Review Series is being co-hosted by the North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, and Pennsylvania chapters of the American Planning Association. Speakers and presentation materials are in process. Members of participating chapters in the Planning Webcast Series are invited to participate.

Suburbs are the new immigrant gateways of the U.S. This paper examines the extent of recent immigration in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas. Focusing on the Washington, DC area, this paper considers the policy and planning responses by state and local jurisdictions to recent immigration, recognizing the varied reactions depending on the scale of government; the extent of immigrant mobilization and presence; and the political persuasion of the policy actors and local residents. The implications for planning and policy making are discussed.

The 2012 AICP Exam Review Series is being co-hosted by the North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, and Pennsylvania chapters of the American Planning Association. Speakers and presentation materials are in process. Members of participating chapters in the Planning Webcast Series are invited to participate.