New U.N. Climate Change Panel Report Released Yesterday - Urgent Action Called For.

I decided to repost Trish Syzmanski's google+ share this morning here on SJC's site, along with the comments I added.   While we've had a lot of this discussion at our meetings over the last couple of years, our blog platform was developed to give community stakeholders a voice and to help share information amongst those focused on transforming Jersey City into a more sustainable place to live and work. So we're inviting you to participate.

If you are interested to blog on our site, please send an email to info@sustainablejc.org - your posts will flow throw to all of our social media sites.

Trish's post  and article below; my comments follow.

TRISH -

WHAT CAN WE DO?

We can change our expectations and TELL OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES at all levels.

We can join and learn with +Sustainable JC.

We can become more aware and make changes in our communities and our own lives.

Waste not - Want not.

Climate Change Adjustments Must Be Fast And Large, U.N. Panel Says http://n.pr/QjB99I

Climate Change Adjustments Must Be Fast And Large, U.N. Panel Says

Deb -

The learning community that Sustainable JC is working to coalesce for Jersey City, is an opportunity for concerned citizens who live and work in this river city, to take up the 'Resiliency Call' and support efforts to plan more sustainably.  

Hoboken is on the move and is bringing private, public and philanthropic partnerships together to help fund and execute this award winning plan by OMA http://stupiddope.com/2014/04/11/post-sandy-rehab-oma-plans-a-rebuild-by-design-defense-strategy-for-the-jersey-coastline-video/  

They have also completed a Green Infrastructure Strategic Plan (Bravo!) which is what Jersey City needs to do.  ALL new economic dev, real estate dev and RE-development initiatives should be planned with climate change realities in mind.  Other cities are doing this - Jersey City can do this.

SANDY Survey - Hudson Regional Health Commission

Hudson Regional Health Commission asked that we post this message -

• Superstorm Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012.  The storm caused unprecedented damage to New Jersey’s housing, business, infrastructure, health and social service and environmental sectors.  After the initial response, there is a long-term need to ensure that the outstanding health, behavioral health, and social services needs of Superstorm Sandy survivors are identified and addressed.

  Hudson Regional Health Commission has received a grant to conduct a health and wellbeing needs assessment for residents and business owners in Hudson County affected by Superstorm Sandy.  We feel that many people in Hudson County were affected by the storm to some extent, so we encourage all residents and business owners to complete the short survey. This includes, but is not limited to, those who were victims of flooding, power loss or are experiencing stress from the storm. Through this survey we hope to gain insight on the types of unmet needs that exist in the community.  We will then develop a plan to connect individuals to the services they may need for recovery. 

  If you are a resident, property or a business owner in Hudson County, your input is very important in order to ensure that any recovery efforts as a result of this survey are directed to all those affected by Superstorm Sandy. Please share your thoughts by completing the following survey: Superstorm Sandy ENGLISH Survey , in Spanish Superstorm Sandy SPANISH Survey (must fax or email to address below)

  Please post this Sandy Outreach Flyer and feel free to distribute this email to anyone that may have been affected by Superstorm Sandy. 

  Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts and helping us to build a stronger and healthier Hudson County!

  Thank You,

  Christina

  Christina Butieb-Bianco

  Public Health Emergency Notification System/ Medical Reserve Corps Coordinator

  Hudson Regional Health Commission

  595 County Ave.  Building 1

  Secaucus, NJ 07094

  Phone: 201-223-1133

  Fax: 201-558-0691

  Email: cbutieb@hudsonregionalhealth.org or cbutieb@njlincs.net     

  Web: http://www.hudsonregional.org/

  P Save a tree, please do not print this e-mail unless you really have to.

  Getting these messages secondhand? Join the NJ LINCS Health Alert Network at

  LINCS Sign Up Sheet

  Are you interested in VOLUNTEERING in the event of a Public Health Emergency? 

  If so, please register to Volunteer for the Medical Reserve Corps at http://njmrc.nj.gov and click online application.

April 2014

Lindsey Webster. Photo by Franco Vogt

Deadline To Register! Certificate Program: Urban Sustainability in Jersey City

The answer is YES !  Groups can sign up together and we are offering a discount rate to do so; our Community Partner rate is a great way to come into the program thinking TEAM !!  More info below; if you have additional questions direct contact information is available on the course flyer. PLEASE NOTE:  Venue for the course has changed - location is now downtown, just a short walk from the Grove Street PATH, at Indiegrove Coworking, 121 Newark Street.

The Early Bird Discount for this program ended yesterday but the Community Partner rate for this program continues to be available, as are a few scholarship seats for those working on sustainability projects in their neighborhoods, that SJC is supporting.

The Community Partner Program enables individuals who are members of SJC’s Collaborative Network to take the course for $200.  If you or your organization are interested to learn more about the Community Partner Program, feel free to contact us through this post, or by sending an email to info@sustainablejc.org.

In case the endorsements of the US Green Building Council and Eco-Schools USA are not enough, re: boat load of CEU’s available to participants, we have lined up an AMAZING group of instructors, for this groundbreaking course.  Principals of Green Path NJ (John Decina, Karen Huff, Darryl Bowman) and Eco-Schools USA (Jennifer Dowd), along with the Cloud Institute (Jaimie Cloud) and Ramapo College Graduate Sustainability Studies Program (Ashwani Vasishth) and JC’s very own Tom Gibbons (former JCEC Chair), are all coming into this in support of educating stakeholders, to help them take sustainability initiatives forward, either professionally or in their communities.  In my opinion, this is a great opportunity – there I said it.

We will not be offering this course again until next Spring.  Jump on the bus now, gain the knowledge and support provided by this program, and dig in with us.

SJC’s Spring 2014 Certificate Program: Urban Sustainability in Jersey City

HHS Launches COOKING MATTERS Shopping Tours For WIC Clients !

SJC's GOOD FOOD NOW ! initiative supports a variety of programs that are being rolled out by Stacey Flanagan, under the new Health & Human Services initiative "Partnership For A Healthier Jersey City".  This is one of them ~ Bringing innovative programming to the Jersey City WIC Program (Women, Infants & Children Supplemental Nutritional Programming and Financial Support) is as exciting as the new HHS Campus up at 199 Summit Avenue !

COOKING MATTERS is pragmatic approach to making healthier food options more accessible to families.  Through these fun touring experiences, participants are educated about more nutritious selections they can make and how to use cost effective strategies when they shop.

See Call For Vounteers below.

HHS MESSAGE:

In an effort to encourages Jersey City WIC participants to shop for healthy foods without breaking the bank, we are offering Cooking Matters @The Store to our WIC Clients.

Each tour leads 3-6 clients through the grocery tour sharing insight on nutritional information and cost effective purchasing.  Every participant leaves with new information, a reusable tote, and a $10 gift card to shop at the local Extra.

Over the past 2 weeks we have conducted a few trial tours and now we are ready to roll out the program. 

Our goal is to reach 2,000 WIC participants by July 31^st!  With this aggressive goal, we wanted to share this as an opportunity for residents that have expressed interest in building a Healthier JC.

 Interested individuals would need to fill out the link here and participate in an online training: http://www.tfaforms.com/288063

After training, Gillian Sargeant-Allen will reach out to schedule tours. 

Tours will be conducted Monday - Friday, every hour beginning at 10am - 2pm and alternating Saturday every hour beginning at 8am - 12pm.

Thanks for help spreading the word.

All the Best,

Stacey Lea Flanagan

Director

Dept. of Health & Human Services

City of Jersey City

New Address:

199 Summit Ave

Jersey City, NJ 07306

201-547-6800

sflanagan@jcnj.org

In an effort to encourages Jersey City WIC participants to shop for healthy foods without breaking the bank, we are offering Cooking Matters @The Store to our WIC Clients.

Each tour leads 3-6 clients through the grocery tour sharing insight on nutritional information and cost effective purchasing.  Every participant leaves with new information, a reusable tote, and a $10 gift card to shop at the local Extra.

Over the past 2 weeks we have conducted a few trial tours and now we are ready to roll out the program.

Our goal is to reach 2,000 WIC participants by July 31^st!

With this aggressive goal, we wanted to share this as an opportunity for residents that have expressed interest in building a

Healthier JC.

Interested individuals would need to fill out the link here and participate in an online training: http://www.tfaforms.com/288063

After training, Gillian Sargeant-Allen will reach out to schedule tours.

Tours will be conducted Monday - Friday, every hour beginning at 10am - 2pm and alternating Saturday every hour beginning at 8am - 12pm.

Thanks for help spreading the word.

All the Best,

Stacey Lea Flanagan

Director

Dept. of Health & Human Services

City of Jersey City

New Address:

199 Summit Ave

Jersey City, NJ 07306

201-547-6800

sflanagan@jcnj.org