CivicStory Videos
CivicStory Videos
What happens when you combine computer skills, entrepreneurship, social services, youth, and a team of dedicated mentors all in one room? In Camden, you have Hopeworks, a remarkable nonprofit that mixes computer coding classes with life training. CivicStory spoke with students and staff and got a tour.
The Delaware River watershed provides drinking water to more than 13 million people, including 3 million in New Jersey. The Alliance for Watershed Education aims to engage a diverse public to enjoy and help protect the natural river basis.
One of the shining examples of renewal in Newark is “Express Newark”, the mixed-use cultural “incubator” and creative space that dominates one corner of the recently renovated historic Hahne building in the heart of downtown. Express Newark aims to promote positive transformation through arts and creative exploration. Co-director Victor Davson calls it a “collaboratory” between Rutgers University and the Newark community.
"For change to happen, it has to begin with us," says Allyza Umali, graduate of Rutgers University-Newark. "If we have a voice, then use it!" Six stories about growth and transformation in Newark from 2014 to 2016 feature civic-minded Rutgers-Newark students in film and public administration. Stories highlight the Newark City of Learning Collaborative (NCLC), green building research at NJIT, and RU-N graduate Nicole Binns and graduate student Terrell Blount. [16:00]
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Participants at the recent CivicStory forum. “Ecology & Economy: Resolving Our Climate Crisis,” question a basic assumption of economics that “growth” is good. Panelist Michael Taylor, environmental economist at Seton Hall University, explains that the environmental costs of an ever-expanding marketplace have been “externalized” and overlooked, and proposes ways to correct these omissions.