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Building a Culture of Health in New Jersey New Jersey Future
WebNew Jersey Future in the News 2024. 03/21/2024: Buying or renting in N.J.? Flood dangers must now be made explicitly clear. (NJ.com) 03/11/2024: NJ's transit stations can help spur more affordable housing (PBS); 03/09/2024: Business community reacts to governor's $55.9B budget (NJ PBS); 03/06/2024: Murphy eyes new fee on warehouse …
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URL: https://www.njfuture.org/2019/04/10/building-a-culture-of-health-in-new-jersey/
Building a Healthier New Jersey
WebNew Jersey Future’s Redevelopment Forum 2020 included a thought-provoking morning plenary titled Building Healthy Communities that focused on creating healthier, more equitable communities utilizing a culture of health approach in planning and redevelopment. The plenary’s panel of experts included moderator Giridhar Mallya, …
Lead in Drinking Water: A Permanent Solution for New Jersey
WebThis report outlines actions New Jersey can take to virtually eliminate lead in drinking water in 10 years. The recommendations include: A coordinated state-level campaign to address lead from all sources: water, paint, and soil. A package of legislation that would simultaneously require and empower water utilities to replace dangerous lead
Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and
WebIn 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.
PFAS in the Garden State: What It Is and What We’re Doing About It
WebKnown as “forever chemicals,”contaminants in the PFAS family accumulate in the body over extended periods of time, and are associated with a higher risk of health problems including liver damage, thyroid disease, decreased fertility, high cholesterol, obesity, hormone suppression, and cancer. PFAS can pass into our bodies through water
Access to Parks is an Environmental Justice Issue
WebConversations around environmental justice (EJ) and social determinants of health are commonly focused on the inequities that are present in underserved communities: the dangerous developments and contaminants. Often, the focus of environmental justice efforts is on remediating the lead and forever chemicals like PFAS …
Hispanic Heritage Month and the Growth of New Jersey’s Latinx
WebOnly Asian Americans grew at a faster rate between 2010 and 2020 (35.6% vs. 23%), according to The Brookings Institution. During the same decade, New Jersey’s Hispanic population grew by nearly half a million people (447,431), which equates to a growth rate of 28.8% between 2010 and 2020 (compared to the state’s overall population …
Constructing Accessible and Inclusive Communities for People …
WebLauren Skowronski of Sustainable Jersey echoed the sentiments shared by Cooper and Montgomery about equitable access to public spaces as a means of connecting people with disabilities within the communities in the face of isolation. “We [put] policies and strategies in place to ensure that public facilities are built beyond the code
Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers Campaign New Jersey Future
WebA statewide coalition today unveiled Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers, a coordinated campaign across New Jersey communities with combined sewer systems that overflow raw sewage during heavy rainfalls. These overflows can cause sewage backups into basements and streets, and dump an estimated 23 billion gallons of raw sewage into …
Urban Comeback in New Jersey New Jersey Future
WebOnly six of New Jersey’s 21 counties gained population last year—Ocean, Burlington, Hudson, Essex, Gloucester, and Camden (in descending order of percent increase)—although even most of these were very small gains. Ocean County was effectively an outlier, gaining 5,708 residents compared to 2018, for a 0.95 percent …
News Coverage and Reporting on Smart Growth New Jersey Future
Web10/12/2022: South Orange Project among Six in State Being Honored by New Jersey Future. (Tapinto SOMA) 10/12/2022: New Jersey Future to honor six projects from across the state in 20th Annual Smart Growth Awards. (Insider NJ) 10/09/2022: In NJ, landlords and home sellers don't have to warn you about past floods.
Smart Growth Gets Smarter New Jersey Future
WebIn his welcome, New Jersey Future Board of Trustees Chair President Peter Reinhart spoke about the evolution of smart growth. Today, all aspects of a redevelopment project and its impact on the community must be considered, with special focus on health, resiliency, and equity. Reinhart urged forum attendees to “keep the big picture of
Future Facts Blog about Smart Growth and Sustainable …
WebNew Jersey Future’s Lame Duck Legislative Priorities for 2023-2024. December 5th, 2023 by Sabrina Rodriguez-Vicenty. The Legislature’s “lame-duck” session began in November and will end in early January. This is a time before newly elected legislators take office in January, and is a time of great unpredictability.
NJDOT’s Safe Streets to Transit Program Is Improving …
WebSimple, small-scale transportation features make a community a safer, healthier, and more affordable place to get around. In a community that values street safety, crosswalks are clearly marked and strategically placed to …
Build streets for everyone with this new model policy
WebNJDOT’s model policy and guide will change that. It provides guidance for all roadway jurisdictions to create complete and green streets according to current best practices. It makes the connection between complete streets and health, economic development, equity, and green streets. It also contains sample language for …
Getting Sewage Off Our Streets and Out of Our Rivers
WebNew Campaign Launches to Engage Communities in Shaping Solutions to Combined Sewer Overflows. Contact: Mo Kinberg, 510-452-7178. TRENTON, Dec. 18, 2018 — A statewide coalition today unveiled Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers, a coordinated campaign across New Jersey communities with combined sewer systems …
Hoboken’s Focus on Vision Zero Makes Streets Safe for Everyone
WebThe transportation-focused website Streetsblog recently turned a spotlight on Hoboken, praising the New Jersey city for its success in eliminating pedestrian deaths. The blog says that Hoboken “shows what can be accomplished when a municipality really focuses on the zero of Vision Zero.”. The term “ Vision Zero ” generally refers to the
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