Join with others who live, vacation or make a living at the Jersey Shore to think through the lessons from Superstorm Sandy. Take part in a community dialogue about what individuals, communities and governments can do to limit the harm done by the next storm. Join your neighbors and make your voice heard.
Please join us for our APA-NJ Emerging Professionals Quarterly Meeting. The committee will be discussing specific events for the remaining months of the year. We'll also be looking for people who want to get involved and help to coordinate activities. If you can't make the meeting, but would like to help, please contact Darlene Green.
This webinar session will highlight trends in transport, and explore sustainable mobility and solutions emerging from local and national partnerships. Successes around the country will be showcased, and strategies noted that scale up the movement. GPC’s tools include: Energy efficient technologies; Hosting of bike-sharing, car-sharing, carpooling, and mass-transit, EV charging; Responsible storm water management, Integration of intelligent transportation; Placemaking: parking assets right-sized, as well-designed, responsible neighbors; Resiliency: parking garages as energy storage and deployment centers in times of crisis; Green Garage Certification: a program inspiring parking assets to be a positive force in the built environment.
This one-of-a-kind event will bring together New Jersey’s top sustainability experts with
academics, state and local agencies, organizations, Sustainable Jersey Green Team and Task Force members and the interested public, at a sustainable venue, Duke Farms!
Super Storm Sandy caused billions of dollars of damage along the Jersey shore. In order to spur rebuilding the State and Federal government has provided a massive amount of funds to municipalities. Attached to these funds is a host of rules and regulations. This seminar will review how the State of New Jersey, HUD, and FEMA are funding the rebuilding effort and discuss these legal requirements. This event is a League Professional Development Program sponsored by the NJ League of Municipalities.
As we move toward more transit oriented development and work to retrofit our existing suburbs, we search for opportunities to use existing infrastructure and land area efficiently. As we evaluate these opportunities, it is important to fully understand the residential developments in these suburban areas of the post-WWII era -- both lower density modest single-family house tracts and garden apartment complexes with acres of green space.
Join Roger Brooks of Roger Brooks International (RBI) as he shared his high-energy, high-value expertise to take you through key strategies and tactics for building communities as destinations and then promoting them effectively. Using uncommon common sense and his ability to cut through the B.S. in our media and marketing-saturated world Roger will leave you with great ideas that are both inspiring and actionable.