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.