Conference: Environment and Economy, Perfect Together

Environment & Economy, Perfect Together

Raritan Valley Community College April 21, 2006

A Conference on the Economic Benefits of Environmental Progress

Sponsored by

The Business and Public Service Department of Raritan Valley Community College
The Somerset County Business Partnership
The NJ chapter of the Sierra Club
Special thanks to the Raritan Valley Community College Foundation, the Gibson Family Foundation, Inc., and Advanced Solar Products for their generous donations.

Date/Location

April 21, 2006 at the RVCC Conference Center

Conference Agenda

8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.	Registration
9:00 a.m. to 9:20 a.m.	The Extraordinary and the Ordinary *Dan Aronson* Associate Professor of Economics Raritan Valley Community College
9:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.	First Morning Workshop Choose one of the workshop selections Time will be provided for audience input
10: 45 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.	Second Morning Workshop Choose one of the workshop selections Time will be provided for audience input
12:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.	Gourmet Vegetarian Luncheon including Mediterranean, Latin and Asian entrées Keynote Speaker *Anton Nelessen* A. Nelessen Associates, Belle Mead

Key Note Speaker

Anton Nelessen is one of the nation's most respected community planners. He has more than 38 years of professional experience as a professor, author and practitioner in the fields of planning and urban design. He has been a professor at Harvard and Rutgers Universities since 1974. His firm, A. Nelessen Associates, located in Belle Mead, New Jersey, won three Smart Growth awards from the NJ Institute of Architecture in 2004 and three Excellence in Planning Awards for the NJ Federation of Planning Officials in 2005.

Mr. Nelessen has developed a concept called the "Computer Commuter," a flexible, demand-responsive van service that makes possible effective public transit in the suburbs.

Workshops

Building Energy

"The cost savings that businesses/households can obtain from investments in efficiency and solar energy"

Lyle Rawlings, President, Advanced Solar Products, East Amwell

Mike Strizki, Director, Residential Division of Advanced Solar Products

Daniel Usas, Senior Energy Engineer, Worldwide Energy Management, Johnson & Johnson

Michael Winka, Director, Office of Clean Energy, NJBPU

Transportation

"The potential to promote alternatives to single-occupancy-vehicle commutes at the local level"

James Crane, Project Manager, Ridewise of Raritan Valley, an affiliate of the Somerset County Business Partnership

Walter Lane, Principal Transportation/Land-Use Planner, Somerset County Planning Board

Public Health and Dietary Issues

"Community-based campaigns to combat chronic disease through exercise and plant-based diets"

Dr. Donald Louria, Chair Emeritus, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UMDNJ

Leigh Ann Von Hagen, Project Manager, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center/Mayor’s Wellness Campaign

Sprawl

"The economic benefits of combating sprawl"

Jeff Tittel, Director of the NJ chapter of the Sierra Club

Registration

Directions

For directions to the college, click here.

Information

For additional information, please contact Dan Aronson, (908) 526-1200 x8238, or daronson@raritanval.edu

Credit: The title of this conference came from the headline of an article in the Hills-Bedminster Press.

Route 28 & Lamington Road, North Branch, New Jersey (908) 526-1200