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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The celebration of this transformational moment in the nation’s history comes at a challenging time. There will be no large, joyous gatherings of committed (and casual) environmentalists that we’ve savored in the past.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is exploding across the globe, creating widespread anxiety and despair. In keeping with state and federal health recommendations, we’ve closed the Watershed Center to visitors, canceled or postponed programming through at least the month of April, and asked our staff to work remotely from home.

But even in the face of the pandemic, I am heartened by the global movement of young people demanding action to combat climate change and protect biological diversity. This green youth movement gives me hope for our future.

We’ve seen the power of this movement at every scale—from global climate strikes to engagement at our town councils. I witnessed this first hand in early January when a dozen fifth graders from Hopewell Elementary School appeared in front of the Hopewell Borough Council to speak out in favor of a ban on singleuse plastic bags. The Council, which had been equivocal on the issue just a few years ago, voted unanimously to enact the ban, which takes effect on Earth Day. The Watershed Institute seeks to foster youth engagement in environmental protection through for-

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Cyber-security expert says working remotely presents opportunities for hackers America’s move to work remotely as a safeguard against COVID-19 exposure opens vulnerable home computers and corporate networks to penetration by hackers.

A recent survey of CFOs by Gartner business consulting indicates nearly 75% intend to have at least some employees work remotely until home-quarantine or social distancing restrictions are lifted.

That’s hundreds of thousands of people connecting with business networks each day from home computers.

For hackers, that’s like a bank vault protected by a paper clip, unless companies and the home computers linked to the network have hefty and up-to-date safeguards.

Cyber schemes are expected to cost business about $6 trillion by 2021, with the cost of ransomware attacks increasing 74 percent over 2019, to $11.5 billion.

From hijacked conference calls on Zoom—the so-called Zoombombing—to a ransomeware attack on a World Health Organization coronavirus testing facility, crucial security gaps are being exploited to steal dollars, data and personally identifiable information.

Small businesses are even more vulnerable because they typically don’t have the IT integrity and dedicated security staff of most corporations.

Here are some best practices for employers and home users to defeat hackers: Credentialing · Audit passwords to ensure they are long and complex. · Don’t reuse passwords.

· Consider using a third-party password manager. · Ensure all personal and work credentials have unique passwords. · Implement multiple-factor identification (the coded text sent to a cell phone) . · Disable the browser feature that offers to save passwords; clear browsers of all remembered passwords.

Home routers · Update with the latest firmware and software updates. If you don’t know how, contact your router manufacturer if you own the router or your Internet Service Provider if you rent the router. · Change the router’s default password to something strong.

Wi-Fi networks · Create separate personal and business Wi-Fi networks. Many routers allow multiple Wi-Fi IDs. · Keep personal devices off the business network. · Do not connect work devices to public Wi-Fi, often offered at stores, coffee shops, hotels and airports.

Limit access · Only you can use your work device; lock it when not in use— even if you are just taking a break. · Do not leave devices in vehicles or unattended in plain sight, such as near a window.

Encrypt data · Encrypt sensitive emails. Find this option under your email security settings or via your cloud service · When using portable computers, ask your system admin to enable full disk encryption.

System updates · Ask your IT department or IT vendor to ensure your work computer is updated, patched and secured. · Check your home/personal systems to ensure they are updated and secured, to avoid lateral attacks (infection from one device to another on the same network).

Report · If you see anything suspicious or abnormal, notify your IT Department, IT vendor or cyber-security vendor immediately.

Websites, incoming email · Be extra cautious opening emails

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Cyber-security expert Milan Baria is CEO of Princeton-based Blueclone Networks. if you don’t know the sender. · Do not open email attachments from unknown senders. These so-called phishing emails are one of the primary sources of network attacks. · Be careful browsing websites you don’t normally use.

Hackers are persistent and stealthy Attackers work hard to get into networks because the payoffs are so high. One successful entry out of 100 attempts is a good return.

Often, companies don’t know for weeks that their systems have been compromised.

Marriott International didn’t discover a data breach until 2018, four years after attackers gained entry into the Starwood hotel brand, which Marriott acquired in 2016. About 500 million customers were affected.

Here in Mercer County, we worked with a firm that only discovered an intrusion when it got a ransomware demand. The company said it couldn’t afford to pay the demand. The attackers were so deeply inside the company’s system that they locked down the network and sent the CFO a copy of the firm’s financial statement. A “yes, you can” message.

By the time we were hired, all we could do was fortify the network against further attacks.

Strengthen your passwords Passwords are the keys to the kingdom for hackers, and complex passwords are a business’s best defense, short of using a password manager.

While the password length is helpful, it takes more. A single, lower-case, eight-letter word found in a common dictionary will take an automated hacking program using a common computer no more than two days to break. On a supercomputer or botnet, it takes about 1.8 seconds.

The most effective password is at least 10 characters and contains an assortment of symbols, numbers and upper- and lower-case letters. Stay away from birthdates and names of children or your spouse.

And here’s the challenge we hear all the time: “I need a password I can remember.”

Try mnemonics or passphrases, which use the first letters of a phrase or list to form a word. Remember how Roy G. Biv helped you recall the colors of a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Or use abbreviations or word fragments.

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The Princeton Area Community Foundation has announced its initial round of COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund grants, totaling nearly $700,000 to more than 30 nonprofits.

“This crisis is having a devastating impact on our most vulnerable communities,” said Jeffrey M. Vega, president and CEO. “As a philanthropic leader in this region, we knew we had to act quickly to help our local nonprofits, and we are so grateful for the support we received from other community leaders to help us create this fund.”

The Community Foundation is partnering with local philanthropists, private foundations, and area companies to support a Covid-19 Relief & Recovery Fund to respond to both immediate and long-term needs of nonprofits in our region.

To date, more than $1.5 million has been raised, but more funds will be required because the needs in the community are much greater. So far, more than $2 million in funding has been requested.

The $694,644 in unrestricted funding awarded in the initial round of grants will be provided primarily to organizations working on food insecurity, mental health, homelessness and rental assistance support, and social services.

Grant applications are accepted daily and grants will be awarded weekly. The initial grants were awarded to: Anchor House, Trenton, for its supportive housing programs, which serve young people, ages 18 to 24, who are homeless, aging out of the child welfare system or at risk of homelessness. Some have children of their own.

Arm In Arm, Trenton/Princeton, to provide services to children, adults, families and seniors who are food insecure The Blue Bears Special Meals, Princeton, to support employment of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities Boys & Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer County to provide food and youth support to children Capital Area YMCA, Trenton, to provide services to children, adults, families and seniors who are food insecure Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Trenton to provide services to children, adults, families and seniors who are homeless Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County, Trenton, to provide services to families who are food insecure The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey, Trenton, to help transition staff at its Family Success Centers and Maternal Child Health program to remote work locations, so they can continue to provide critical social services Community Loan Fund of New Jersey (New Jersey Community Capital), Trenton, to provide services to families and seniors who are food insecure Corner House Foundation, Princeton, to provide youth support and behavioral health services to children, adults and families Every Child Valued, Lawrence, to provide food and youth support for children and families Hamilton Township School District to provide social services to stu-

dents, staff and families in collaboration with Prevent Child Abuse NJ Help Self Community Development Corporation, Trenton, to provide educational resources students in their after-school program, to lend laptops to students who do not have computers, and to provide food and social services to the children HomeFront, Lawrence, to provide services to children, adults, families and seniors who are food insecure and/or homeless Housing Initiatives of Princeton Charitable Trust to provide food, homelessness and social services and youth support to families Jewish Family & Children’s Service, Princeton, to provide expanded mental health services for teens and adults, including community webinars and Phone “Drop-In” Hours.

Literacy New Jersey, Hamilton, to provide adult literacy education to their adult students, and homework help for the children of those students Meals on Wheels of Mercer County, Ewing, to cover the background checks for new volunteers who are providing meals to vulnerable adults and seniors; new volunteers are needed because many of the agency’s regular volunteers are seniors, a group at high risk for contracting coronavirus.

Mercer Street Friends, Trenton, to provide emergency weekend food bags to families in Trenton; so far, more than 39,000 meals have been provided. A portion of the grant is also being used for deep cleaning of the agency’s food bank Millhill Child & Family Development, Trenton, to launch a new tele-therapy delivery system to provide behavioral health services to children and adults Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton to provide services to families and seniors who are food insecure and/or homeless NAMI Mercer NJ, Hamilton, to provide peer-led, peer-engaged mental health education and support for children, families and adults New Jersey Agricultural Society, Bordentown, to provide services to children, adults, families and seniors who are food insecure Prevention Education Inc. (PEI Kids), Lawrence, to provide youth support and mental health counseling for children Princeton Children’s Fund, which is collaborating with the Princeton Housing Stability Coalition, Princeton Human Services and other community partners to provide relief funding for individuals and families most at risk of losing shelter and lacking access to food and resources Princeton Nursery School to provide services and youth support to very young children who are food insecure Princeton Senior Resource Center to provide online programming for seniors The Rescue Mission of Trenton to work with its homeless community RISE, Hightstown, to provide food, health and social services to children, adults, families and seniors Snipes Farm and Education Center, Morrisville, Pa., to provide services to adults, families and seniors who are food insecure and/or homeless Trenton Area Soup Kitchen to provide services to adults, seniors and families who are food insecure UIH Family Partners, Trenton, to provide food, behavioral health and social services to adults and families UrbanPromise Trenton to provide support services to high school students Volunteers of America Delaware Valley, Camden, to provide food and health and homelessness services to seniors and adults in Mercer and Burlington counties The Community Foundation is reviewing additional grant applications, which continue to be submitted daily.

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Delaware river Experts Hail Environmental Wins but Warn of New Climate Threats This story was written and produced by NJ Spotlight, published on March 10,2020. It is being republished under a special content-sharing agreement. NJ Spotlight is a nonprofit editorial website that partners with NJTV News to deliver news and analysis about politics and public policy in New Jersey. To read more, visit www.njspotlight.com.

The Delaware River is a lot cleaner than when it was an “open sewer” half a century ago but still faces environmental challenges, notably including the looming effects of climate change, experts said at the latest NJ Spotlight roundtable.

The river and the tributaries in its watershed now have much higher levels of dissolved oxygen, an important indicator of ecological health, than they did in the 1960s, thanks to a cleanup of wastewater plant output required by the federal Clean Water Act of 1972, panelists noted at the event attended by about 80 people at the Coopers Riverview venue at Trenton last Thursday.

The improvements have allowed migratory fish to swim upstream beyond what was previously a “dead zone” at Philadelphia; have allowed other wildlife like bald eagles to thrive, and have improved conditions for swimmers, boaters and fishermen, the five panelists said.

But they warned that the river is now at risk from climate-related threats including floods, droughts, and encroaching saltwater as rising seas push into its tidal stretch which currently extends as far as Trenton.

And the forecast intensity of new climate events like Superstorm Sandy in 2012 creates a huge challenge for state officials, nonprofits and academic experts who are working for further improvements.

“We really can’t rely on historic records now,” said Carol Collier, senior adviser on Watershed Management and Policy at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia. “Maybe the drought of record in the 1960s won’t be the drought of record any more. We need to have our plans in place for these problems.”

Saltwater fears The threat is highlighted by the latest forecasts from the Rutgers Climate Institute for 2 feet of sealevel rise by 2050, and 6 feet or more by the end of the century, raising fears that a line of saltwater will get closer to drinking-water intakes for Philadelphia and parts of South Jersey along the river’s estuary.

Saltwater encroachment would also threaten the river’s “very rare” freshwater wetlands, said Collier, the former executive director of the Delaware River Basin Commission.

On the Delaware Bayshore of South Jersey, some residents are already being forced out of their homes by increasing flooding, said Kathy Klein, executive director of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, a science-based nonprofit that coordinates the efforts of many local conservation groups.

“We have to have some honest conversations,” Klein said during the approximately 90-minute panel discussion. “Some of these people are going to have to move. If we don’t start really talking about it now, it’s going to be a complete crisis and we are not to going to be prepared to help these people move to other locations where they will be safe.”

Since Sandy, New Jersey officials have accelerated their buyouts of flood-prone properties on the Bayshore and other areas of the state through the Blue Acres program which has now purchased and demolished more than 700 homes.

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River watershed are expected to see more harmful algal blooms (HABs) which clogged and closed many New Jersey lakes last summer as warming water temperatures and nutrient-laden stormwater runoff created the right conditions for the algae to thrive.

some innovative changes, to not put people in harm’s way, to not put affordable housing in the flood plain.”

Prospect of persistent algal blooms

Although barriers and levees are not likely to be a realistic defense against rising seas, and the radical idea of retreat from flood-prone areas is under consideration in the regulatory review, it’s likely to be a tough sell to persuade people not to build houses at the Jersey Shore, given its economic and cultural importance, Friedman said.

“You have to understand that the Shore is such an important driver for the state that that isn’t going to be something that people are going to accept right away,” he said. “It’s unfortunate but I think it’s probably going to be one of the last steps of a strategy.”

Still, panelists cited wins for the watershed stemming from the cooperation of state and local government, nonprofits, landowners and other stakeholders.

Alan Hunt, executive director of the Musconetcong Watershed Association in northwest New Jersey, said his group reduced bacteria in one of the river’s tributaries by 95% after teaming with researchers from Montclair State University, and working with local dairy farmers to reduce the impact of their herds on the waterway.

The 10-year campaign, which Hunt called a “success story,” built riparian buffers and reinforced the streambed to stop cattle disturbing it.

He urged activists to collaborate with stakeholders including municipalities, landowners and state and county governments, to maximize their chances of success.

“You can’t do it alone,” he said.

Panelists stressed the improvements to the watershed brought by federal and state regulation since the mid-20th century, and urged stakeholders to fight against any reversals, especially from climate change.

“The Delaware is a case study in how policy has succeeded,” said Doug O’Malley, director of Environment New Jersey. “Half a century ago, you could literally smell the Delaware from 5,000 feet in the air.

Since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we’ve seen a massive recovery.”

He urged stakeholders to defend the improvements not only with their personal lifestyle choices but by becoming active campaigners.

“Work with public officials, show up at public hearings, and make sure your neighbors are familiar with these issues,” he said.

Although Gov. Phil Murphy has announced $13.5 million in funding to fight the blooms, that’s unlikely to fix the problem because it’s partly a result of the changing climate that’s beyond New Jersey’s control, said Bruce Friedman, director of the Bureau of Water Monitoring and Standards at the Department of Environmental Protection.

“It’s not an issue where you can just throw money and expect it to go away,” Friedman said. “It’s going to persist.”

Threats to the Delaware River and the wider environment are rooted in a consumer lifestyle that needs to change to create a more sustainable future, Friedman said.

The Delaware river is a lot cleaner than when it was an “open sewer” half a century ago but still faces environmental challenges.

On his way to the event venue, Friedman recalled seeing 14 Amazon trucks as an indicator of that consumerism.

“It’s a great time to be in environmental advocacy but it’s also a scary time because we are facing so many challenges right now,” he said. “The way we consume is unsustainable and we need to change that. It’s a tough decision. People like their shopping and their Amazon but that has an impact on the environment.”

Climate threats are being addressed by Murphy’s recent Executive Order 100 directing the Department of Environmental Protection to take a wide-ranging look at which environmental regulations need to be rewritten to allow New Jersey to mitigate and adapt to climate change, Friedman said.

“Nothing is off the table,” he said, following three recent DEP sessions to seek public input into the new regulations. “We’re really looking at

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Climate Unpredictability puts Farmers in Fight for Survival At the final outdoor Princeton Farmers Market of 2019, Darci Burns sported the puffy paraphernalia of winter: a pair of grey North Face earmuffs and a thick sweater beneath brown overalls, the blue of her eyes sharp in contrast to the colors of her clothing.

The 26-year-old had been selling vegetables for Chickadee Creek Farm for several years, and has grown accustomed to watching the market regulars of Princeton pick their produce—yet she also has noticed that they have less choice lately. The market has gotten smaller over time.

“What I’ve noticed is that people”—as in the farmers—“have a lot less stuff,” she said. With not enough produce to justify the costs of setting up a stall, sellers who had come from all over the state had begun dropping out.

It had to do with the weather. This past winter, Princeton residents noticed a lack of snow, but farmers have noticed broader changes in precipitation for a while. Since the mid-1990s, the Northeast has been getting wetter and wetter, with heavy rains splashing farms with quantities of water previously unseen. The 2018 season saw over 60 inches of rain on par with some regions of Costa Rica, where lush and humid jungles—a far cry from the dry woods of New Jersey— are the norm. Farmers can’t get out onto drenched fields to work, waterlogged earth has led to disease, soil has eroded, populations of pests have exploded, and plants haven’t been given the right conditions to grow.

Yet Burns, who has been with Chickadee Creek Farm for four years, continues to appear at the Princeton Farmers Market, where her mixed greens and vegetables are beloved staples. Halfway through our conversation, a man peeked into Burns’s whitetented stand to survey the goods.

“Did I miss ginger season?” he asked, a hint of hope in his voice.

“Yeah, we only had ginger for one week,” she replied.

“Ah! No problem,” the man said.

“Next year then.” *** Princeton’s beloved farmers market planned to return to Hinds Plaza this spring—but with the understanding it very well could be smaller than its predecessors. It has nothing to do with novel coronavirus. Instead, the new decade—coming on the heels of increasingly errant weather events—already seems like alien territory to many farmers who have relied on careful planning to feed the residents of the Garden

by Jimin Kang State. More than a hundred crops are grown each year on a sixth of the state’s land.

For these farmers, 2020 had the potential to be a defining year. Six of New Jersey’s 10 warmest summers on record have occurred since 2005, and the statewide average temperature in 2012 was the highest in 118 years of record-keeping. Since then, warmer and wetter conditions have led to extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, which, in 2012, ripped through the state and left devastation in her wake.

The weather has always been tricky. Now, it’s a dance with fate. *** Somewhere on Facebook, there is a picture of my freshman self in a candy shop, holding up a chocolate bar with a wrapper that reads, in an obnoxious cursive font, ‘Jersey Girl.’ I look overjoyed, eyes crinkled and cheeks bulging, caught in the ecstatic and exciting realization that I—a South Korea native who travelled 7,000 miles to New Jersey for school—was making this place a new home.

As a native of Seoul and a longtime resident of Hong Kong, I’ve always been a city girl born-and-bred.

I’d never been to Princeton before I applied to college, and thus relied on my imaginations of New Jersey to fill in the blanks. I admit that New Jersey, unlike states like New York or California, doesn’t have the sexiest reputation; I’ve heard some of my local friends, for instance, dub it “the armpit of the nation.”

But over the years, I’ve grown to love New Jersey as home. From the rolling greens of Princeton to the monochrome buildings of Newark, each place I’ve encountered in my adopted state—full of its eccentricities and contradictions—has irreversibly embedded itself into who I am. Like New Jersey, I am a motley mix of factors that seem incongruous when put together: a Spanish & Portuguese major from Korea who grew up in a city but loves to farm. To be called a “Jersey Girl” feels like a badge of honor I’m earning as I learn the difference between a pork roll and a Taylor ham, unwittingly become a Wawa devotee, and defend the fact that yes, Central Jersey does exist; I live in it, and it is exceedingly beautiful, its produce— apples and lettuce greens and strawberries—even more delicious.

So it saddens me to think that what I’ve grown to love might one day be completely different.

Changing of the Seasons: Jim Kinsel has grown the same variety of strawberries at Honey Brook Organic Farm for 20 years. Strawberry season starts two weeks earlier now, due to warming weather.

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Back then, the farm was run by 2010, August of 2011, June of 2013, berry season used to begin during Memorial Day weekend, in late May. Jim Kinsel, who had studied math at and the entirety of 2018 were the wetNow, it starts on Mother’s Day, two Rutgers and worked for Prudential— test on record, each setback delaying weeks earlier. Although nature’s al- a job he found “deadening,” Dudas the growing season: tractors couldn’t tered timeline has been befitting for said—before he started farming. work in wet fields, and root rot—a disease that withers healthy roots, the fruit—strawberries, red, round They married in 2007.

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Back in November, Dudas considered her greatest fear if climate change continued at its current rate.

“That we’re going to wind up homeless,” she said then. “That we’ll be going to the food banks that we now donate to.”

As one year slowly transitioned into the next, she and her husband would imagine—both in jest and in sincerity—what that might look like: Kinsel, a fan of expensive granolas, dumpster diving at Whole Foods; selling the farm and seeing it turn into something else, which would be “heartbreaking” for Dudas.

As we stopped at the compost pile, Dudas told me about what she and her husband were doing to continue with their labor of love. One solution lies in the long half-cylinders planted squarely in the field, called high tunnels, that protect produce from adverse weather. Being anywhere from 15 to 30 feet wide, 9 to 15 feet high and up to 200 feet in length, each high tunnel can cost $20,000 to install. Another solution is the use of cover crops: non-harvestable plants that are grown on top of existing beds during the winter to keep the soil healthy, preventing rain from stripping off the nutrients.

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“For those of you that have supported us through the droughts, hail storms, hurricanes, and at least one superstorm, we thank you and want you to know that your support has made our farm dream a reality,” they wrote in their September 2019 newsletter. “Producing the food that helps you and your family maintain health, vitality and happiness is a great responsibility, one that we and our staff have never undertaken lightly.”

Leaving Dudas that November afternoon, the sun setting across the empty road, the Jersey Girl within me—having been fed on the state’s juicy tomatoes, apples, blueberries for three years and taken it for granted—was at a loss for words. *** When Dudas looks for expertise, she turns towards people like Virginia Lamb, a soil health specialist and long-time friend, as well as Dr. Marjorie Kaplan of the Rutgers Climate Initiative, who conducts research on the causes and impacts of climate change and relays this information to local farmers.

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Daunting, too, is the fact that the official USDA Twitter account hasn’t mentioned the word “climate” since 2017, and that Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue denied global warming just last June. His argument? “It rained yesterday, it’s a pretty nice day today. So the climate does change in short increments and in long increments.”

Yet the urgency is real. Across the globe, the chaotic effects of climate change—droughts, heavy rains, extremely hot or cold temperatures—are wreaking havoc on all sorts of farms, making it harder for people to put food on their tables. In 2018, just over 11% of households in the United States did not have secure food supplies at home; and as the world population grows—the United Nations predicts that it will increase to nearly 10 billion by 2050— food insecurity will only become a graver and graver concern.

But already, in 2020, there is a lot at stake— including the mental health of farmers who are struggling to cope. It is a somber reality that the rate of suicide has risen among farmers over the last few years.

These farmers are people who, like us, have aspirations, origins and love for food and the land. With families, passions, joys and sorrows that drive them to do their work, day after day, brave even in the face of uncertainty. *** It is easy to romanticize the land and the stories we tell about it. Poets and artists have projected themselves onto pastoral panoramas for generations. For me, a city girl, the land is most vibrant in my imagination: with its distance from the frenetic pace of city life, it offers me a chance to reconnect with a nebulous feeling of rootedness to this thing—the earth—that we come from, and call our home.

Twenty miles away from Sherry’s farm, in Hightstown, is Abe’s Acres Farm, owned by 28-year-old Gabe Siciliano. Before I met him, I first met his girlfriend, Tara Kennette, an English PhD student at Temple University. When she told me that she received free vegetables all summer by virtue of dating a farmer, I blurted out, somewhat embarrassingly: “Maybe I should find a farmer boyfriend too.”

Siciliano’s great-grandfather, Abraham Feldsher, escaped the pogroms of 1800s Russia to the United States, where he started a dry goods 3:20 PMin Brooklyn before pursuing his dream of store farming his own land. The dream brought him to Hightstown, where Abe’s Acres sits today, growing more than forty kinds of crops. For Siciliano, the land is also his connection to his grandfather, Joseph Notterman, who kept the farm for decades until he passed away in 2013.

Notterman’s death “was the first real loss I’d ever experienced,” Siciliano told me. “And that precipitated me re-evaluating what I really wanted out of my life.”

On the Abe’s Acres website are side-by-side images of Notterman and Siciliano standing in the same spot on the farm, 35 years apart. Both men are grabbing the front clasps of their overalls, wide-brimmed hats perched atop their heads; they share the same, subtle smile, albeit one in color and the other in a grainy blackand-white. Both men combine intellectualism with the labor of farming: while Siciliano studied neuroscience at Brandeis University and once dreamed of going into medicine, Notterman taught psychology at Princeton University for 35 years, spending his winters in the classroom and summers on the farm.

Despite their similarities, however, there is one inconvenient discrepancy: the conditions Gabe faces today vary tremendously from what his grandfather used to encounter on the same farm.

“You used to be able to rely on weather patterns to be within a certain margin of error depending on where you were,” Siciliano said, “but in the last 10 years, or even in the last five years, weather patterns have changed so quickly that it’s very, very difficult to do that anymore.”

“God, last year sucked,” he said. “Not just for me, but for everyone in Jersey.” Many of the direct-seeded crops that he would have planted sometime in April—like cut greens, carrots and beets—had to wait until late May or early June, because the soil was too wet.

That year, Siciliano lost up to 30% of what he would’ve earned from cut greens, one of his most lucrative crops.

For Siciliano, the land is not just a romantic ideal. It is his history and his family story, which makes it all the more unnerving when that lineage is at risk of being disrupted.

“It’s frustrating, honestly, to come into something that you find is your life’s passion and know that it’s going to change a lot in your lifetime,” Siciliano said. He sighed. “And that you’re never going to be able to keep up with it.

That it’ll ultimately be a futile endeavor.” *** For people like Sherry Dudas and Gabe Siciliano, whose life’s work and joy stems from food and the land, it is the sense of community among farmers that makes the profession worthwhile despite the unnerving uncertainty.

Max Hoagland, the market manager of the Princeton Farmers Market (and Darci Burns’s old high school classmate), will admit that much. Vendors have to be aware of what others are doing or selling so as not to create unfair competition, he said. Vendors crack jokes with one another and share some of the leftovers they had once the market closes, and Hoagland emphasized that the market only functions when people cooperate and work together. Across Hoagland’s fingers, there eight tattoos—one on each finger, save for the thumbs—that combine to read SINK and SWIM on either hand.

It felt like an omen.

It caused me to recall my conversation with Dudas as we walked the long road by her farm.

“This is a do-or-die year,” she had told me. In the absence of passing cars, the vicinity was totally silent. She was talking about her farm, but she could have been talking about us all.

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PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Al Maghazehe, PhD, FACHE ∙ President and CEO, Capital Health Samuel J. Plumeri, Jr. ∙ Chairman, Capital Healthcare Corporation Board of Trustees

Colleagues, National Doctors Day is an annual event that reminds us to recognize the physicians in our lives and express our gratitude for the amazing work they do every day. We all know that a career in health care is demanding during the best of times, but as we move past Doctors Day 2020 and confront the unprecedented health crisis we find ourselves in, it’s important to recognize all of our health care workers on the front lines.

Health care professionals here at Capital Health and everywhere are facing incredible challenges in dealing directly with the COVID-19 outbreak. And while those challenges are certainly daunting, the critical services that are part of the everyday work of health care still need to be provided. Through it all, our team is digging deep and doing whatever it takes to care for our patients and families and keep our community safe and well.

There’s an old saying that tells us our true nature is revealed in times of adversity, and the response we’re seeing from our health care workers throughout Capital Health during this crisis confirms what we already knew. Your professionalism and expertise are unmatched and your devotion to our patients and the community we serve is limitless. On behalf of Capital Health’s senior leadership and board of directors, as well as our community, thank you for your heroic efforts as we work through this crisis and beyond.

Stay safe!

Sincerely,

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Samuel J. Plumeri, Jr. Chair, Capital Healthcare Corporation Board of Directors

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Slices of Life: Mercer County families shared their lives, both in photos and in words, with Ewing-based photographer Heather Raub as they adjust to life under stay-at-home orders.

During the week of March 16, many businesses were shutting down and local families were let go from their jobs indefinitely. I desperately wanted to know how everyone was adjusting to the new way of living. My background is in anthropology and documentary photography, and I wanted to record what was happening on the local level. I saw an international post on Instagram, about a photographer capturing drone shots of families in their homes (with permission), and I knew I wanted to do the same thing, but on the ground.

Photographers around the country started photographing families at their homes, either in their doorway or through their windows. I put out a Facebook call for people interested in the Mercer/Bucks County areas to be photographed safely, using a telephoto lens and plenty of distance, and contributing their stories of staying home.

The original plan was to compile the images and stories for social media. Many of the families wanted to give something back, and at the suggestion of a friend, I decided to open contributions to HomeFront, who desperately need assistance. Families on the verge of homelessness are at a greater risk in this situation and could lose so

much if there is a temporary layoff or job loss. They are already in need of so much. Losing more would put them further behind. So far, we have raised $1,485 for HomeFront.

In the coming weeks, I am hoping to capture some of HomeFront’s families to show the adjustments they have made.

With 20 families and growing, I will be working on making this into a photo book as a reflection of this time in history.

Five weeks into the project, I have learned a lot about the creativity and resiliency of families. I am aware that today’s families run around from one activity to the next, and complain that there is never enough time to be still long enough to enjoy each other. With this new adjustment, and added stress in some cases, people have found a way to get closer to one another, even if that means creating new physical boundaries in the home. There are more meals at the table, and greater effort to find new forms of entertainment.

I have also seen the kindness and altruistic nature of people in our communities as they are contributing to organizations, such as HomeFront, in search of ways to make a difference and help out. As soon as

I made the announcement regarding donations to HomeFront, multiple families that I documented decided to contribute, quickly bringing in $400 in the first few hours.

Something truly interesting to me is the observation of how a person’s home can affect their perspective. A family living in a small condo with no yard has a very different perspective than a family with a yard and a large porch. A family of seven in a smaller home can cope differently than a family of two on multiple acres of land. On one hand, the larger family has to navigate multiple personalities and moods on a regular basis, but they also have a greater community within the home for support and company. The family of two may have greater feelings of isolation on a larger property.

I am still looking for more people and families to photograph as part of this project. Participants have the freedom to add props if they like, such as games they are playing, pajamas and sweats they’ve been wearing for weeks, or just themselves as a family.

It has been interesting to read each person’s and each family’s story, but it is clear they all express the same hopeful outlook to keep-

ing a slower pace when this is over.

What follows are the stories of the families I’ve photographed, in their own words. (Stories correspond with photos above, starting with top left, and moving clockwise.)

Erin Petura and family, Hopewell Being a family of six has proven to be a challenge and quite the blessing during quarantine.

My family has four children; two girls and two boys. They are all handling the quarantine in extremely different ways. Aside from doing online learning, they have had to overcome the obstacle of being in what we consider a very small house for a family this size. You know, the house that we swore we would be out of in just a couple of years. And now it is 12 years later.

There has been a lot of fighting over space, trying to figure out who is going to do each meeting where, battling for attention from me, Mom. There have been many tears, tantrums, and even the breakdown that resulted in throwing things over the past two weeks. One of my children just started ¨seeing¨ a therapist to try and process his emotions on what is happening. On the flip side though,

there have been many hugs and apologies and talks that we might not have had the time to do before.

What we didn’t realize through all this anguish was the positivity that came with all of that as well.

There has been a bond, a solid pact if you will, that has grown between all of us. One of my kids who struggled this school year with emotions has really blossomed and become a much calmer and easier person to live with. The relationships among us have become stronger and more loving. The silliness that I once saw when they were little has returned. The acceptance and understanding of one another’s emotions has grown exponentially.

We have become a family unit again. One whole fighting this crazy thing called corona.

We try to get out as much as possible. The air and sun help us a lot.

We play basketball, ride bikes, and the kids even made up a silly game on roller skates called Grandma (think they miss her?). Being outside together really helps. On rainy days, we get in the car and play Pokemon Go. Anything to get out of the house. We have been on birthday drive bys and have gone to “visit” our friends from the curb.

As it should be though, our main place for hanging out is our house.

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tal. Although we have adopted a rigorous decontamination routine for each time he comes home from work, it is still quite nervewracking. This is magnified by the fact that we have an 18-month-old daughter and I am 7-months pregnant. There are times when I find myself frustrated that I cannot go out or meet with friends whom I have not seen for some time. In light of the uncertainties this new disease has brought upon our world, I must remind myself just how lucky we are to have our family, our health, and our livelihood.

Heather Raub (pictured) runs Front Room Images out of a Philadelphia studio and her home in Mercer County.

As you can see in the pictures, the dining room is our place. Our one stop for e-learning, mom hugs, questions, tears, laughter and togetherness. It is the place where we come together as a family and (sometimes barely) make it through the day. It is not always easy but as long as we are together, I know that we will all be OK.

Patrice ColemanBoatwright and husband Jim Boatwright, Ewing It’s times like these that make us pause; times like this that encourage us to welcome all the memories and the blessings we’ve received over the years. As kids growing up in NYC, we always had the comfort and security of neighborhoods filled with row homes and apartments with a “front stoop.” The front stoop was where we gathered (under the watchful eyes of adults), where big Continued on following page

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The company has a history of serving the community, working through World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II as well as the more recent tragedies of 9/11, Superstorm Sandy and now the Covid-19 crisis. During these trying times, Prior & Nami Business Systems is considered an essential business, and we are fortunate to be open to provide our services to keep other essential business running.

Prior & Nami has provided IT hardware, software and advice to employees and students working from home.

When local schools acted quickly to shift to distance learning in March, Prior & Nami offered assistance with printing student packets for distance learning.

Local governments have purchased laptops from us, at a discounted rate, to enable more employees to work from home. We have continued delivery of supplies and service to open essential businesses such as doctor’s offices, lawyers, banks, title agencies, realtors, municipalities, churches, fire departments, and car dealerships/service centers to name a few.

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Alex and Ryan Brady and family, Lawrenceville Ryan has been working full time from home, which has been nice because even though he is working, the girls love running into his office all day and saying hi. He commutes to Philly so they only see him from 7-8 p.m. regularly, so this time has actually been beneficial to building their father/daughter relationships.

During the day, it’s been mostly me and the girls plus our dog Callie playing outside. The girls love going for walks in the wagon, and even take turns holding Callie’s leash.

I’ve been a stay-at-home mom since my second was born, so for us, this is normal, except we are so used to being on the go to different play dates and activities so that has been the most challenging (finding a way to entertain them just me).

But we make it work!

The girls are at such fun ages.

They run and fall and crack up and repeat. The laughter is contagious. It reminds Ryan and I that our girls won’t remember this crazy unprecedented time, being home just us, but we will, and it has been so special.

Kids have a magical innocence about them. They find beauty in almost everything. I feel that we as parents have been learning more from them over the last 6 weeks. We are letting them be kids more. Make the big mess, we have all the time in the world to clean it up. And that has made our laughter grow as well.

I hope this story is helpful. We are trying to be more like the girls.

More carefree, in a time where we have to be so careful.

Heather MacNew, Edwing Medina and family, Ewing During this time of COVID-19, I find myself with mixed emotions.

As I sit down at my kitchen table to start my workday in what has become the “new normal,” I worry about what lies ahead for our family. While I am fortunate to have the opportunity to work from home during this time, my husband is not, as he is a physician at a local hospi-

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decisions were made (like who’s gonna ask for money for the ice cream truck), where we laughed, played, and watched the world go by. So, it is only natural for us native New Yorkers to be drawn to that safe space again—our own front stoop— during this pandemic.

The pandemic is our reality now.

In the blink of an eye, our lives and our community have forever changed. There has been enormous loss, yet there is also more compassion evident. From the vantage point of our front stoop, we now look at neighbors to whom we have absently waved for 20 years, and we feel differently about them. There are more “hellos”, but they’re coupled with a genuine, “so how are you doing today?” Somehow (and at last) there is more of a reason to be concerned for one another, to offer help and a caring word as we find our collective footing again.

Sara Cooper, Titusville Diagnosed with ALS in November 2018, Sara is one of the bravest and determined women I have known. She does not let the disease define her, and although her body is becoming paralyzed, her mind is sharp, as well as her sense of humor.

At this time of staying home, Sara reflects on some of the changes the Corona virus has made to her life and network: “Because of the virus and my very compromised immune system, I am unable to have really any visitors.”

She has been supported by a tribe of women that have been there for her every single step of the way, in every element of her life. She

The Wetzel family (left) and the Emmer family (right) are two subjects in photographer Heather Raub’s project to document family life during the COVID-19 pandemic. now uses Zoom to see and “spend time” with friends during their Friday afternoon cocktail hours.

“I miss their hugs. They all text and send cards, and the zoom Facebook is key because I hear the voices and see the wonderful faces,” Sara said.

Sara was regularly going to Schafer Sports Center for aquatic therapy, but now that she is not able to due to the shut down, she feels the “disease is progressing more so than prior, probably due to lack of activity and range of motion.”

“But my attitude is one of gratefulness and hope,” she said. “It is amazing the love that continues to be shown to me via technology and regular mail. I am a very lucky girl.”

A fighter and an inspiration, Sara has lived a very full and wonderful life. “I am very grateful and I wanted to make a difference to help others.” She, with the help of her team, has created a roadmap for newly diagnosed patients, and is currently searching for people who will benefit from this resource.

Sara and her family have also started a nonprofit to help those with ALS...#LetsKickSomeALS.

Victor Medina and family, Pennington The need to quarantine hit our family hard and fast. The two oldest boys were with their grandparents in Puerto Rico, and all four had to come home early flying through JFK airport. They got picked up, driven to their apartment in NYC to grab clothes, medicine and other supplies before continuing on to quarantine in Pennington.

The living and working arrangements need to accommodate three distance-learning students and one full-time working parent—the other parent has an estate planning law firm in the borough, and owns the building where the office is located and can disappear for most of the day. But for the rest, there’s a challenge in finding six different corners for everyone to scatter to dur-

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ing the day—two more than otherwise might be needed due to the grandparents. On the plus side, one of the grandparents has a terminal condition (which is why they are quarantining here instead of NYC), so there’s an opportunity to create memories that might have been impossible in any other situation.

There won’t be a return to the old “normal”. What life becomes will look more like what we’re doing now than what we were doing before. The only way to come through it successfully is to acknowledge the things we can’t control, and express gratitude for the gifts this change has presented.

Erin Cahill Wetzel and family, Hamilton Life is tough being confined right now. We have four kids ages 5 and under, including a one month old. It’s been hard to have any routine right now. We miss family and friends who can help us with the

baby and even see her. Our oldest was in kindergarten and loved it so it’s disappointing to have him likely finish out the year homeschooled. We were constantly out doing things with our kids so this quarantine has been particularly hard given how much we were always doing with our kids.

I fear things won’t be normal for a long time, and I worry about all the experiences my kids will miss out on because of what the new normal will be. I worry about being able to go anywhere with our new daughter or kids because it will take so long for things to be normal and safe. Positive moments is learning to check in more with family and friends. Also feel like if we can get through this, we can get through anything. I am hopeful things can return to normal sooner than expected.

Heather Raub is a Ewing-based photographer. For more information, go online to www.frontroomimages.com, email heather@frontroomimages.com or call 609-2039334.

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Life in the Fast Lane McCarter Theatre Center to lay off most of its staff in May McCarter Theatre Center announced April 17 that it will lay off a majority of its full time and seasonal staff next month.

The move will take effect as of May 15, with McCarter continuing to provide health insurance for impacted employees through June.

McCarter Board of Trustees president Robert J. Caruso wrote in a letter that the lack of a clear timeline for restarting performances and the end of social distancing led the board to turn its focus to the long-term health of the organization. McCarter has met its obligations to the artists involved with the productions and performances that were canceled this season.

“The sacrifices we make as an institution and the financial steps we take at this time are vitally important to securing the organization’s future,” Caruso wrote. “By safeguarding our financial position now, we also improve our capacity to open our doors and stages for employees, audiences, students and community partners as soon as it is safe to do so.”

Until the theater reopens, it will engage its audiences through McCarter@Home, its virtual classroom and performance space. For more information, go online to www.mccarter.org.

Cap-and-trade program generates $80M annually for green initiatives in N.J. New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection, Board of Public Utilities, and Economic Development Authority released a strategic funding plan April 17 for investing an estimated $80 million each year in environmentally focused programs.

The funds will come from the state’s auction proceeds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade pact among northeastern states dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity generating sector.

In addition, funds from the RGGI auctions will be heavily dedicated to projects that will benefit the state’s environmental justice communities.

To help achieve Gov. Phil Murphy’s goal of achieving 100% clean energy by 2050, the RGGI Strategic Funding Plan emphasizes the goal of electrifying New Jersey’s transportation sector, with a focus on projects that will benefit communities that historically have borne disproportionate burdens of air pollution. The state believes projects developed under the plan will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, leverage funding and stimulate financial opportunities and job creation, improve air quality, and enhance natural resources such as coastal wetlands and forests that sequester carbon emissions, according to a press release.

New Jersey formally rejoined RGGI this year, after two years of reentry negotiations and rulemaking.

In March, the state participated in its first quarterly carbon dioxide allowance auction since rejoining, realizing more than $20 million in proceeds. As required by the state’s Global Warming Response Act, the EDA will be responsible for allocating 60 percent of the auction proceeds to qualified projects, and the DEP and BPU will each be responsi-

ble for allocating 20 percent.

Fossil fuel power plants are a significant contributor of carbon dioxide, the primary cause of climate change. RGGI is a cooperative, market-based cap-and-trade program consisting of states in the Northeast that provides incentives to generators of electricity to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide through investments in clean technologies. RGGI holds quarterly auctions of emission credits, proceeds of which states then use to fund projects that advance climate change mitigation goals.

Other RGGI states are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

The RGGI Strategic Funding Plan released April 17 guides how the proceeds from this and future auctions over the next three years will be spent, under four broad initiative areas: Catalyzing Clean, Equitable Transportation: All three agencies will work on projects that spur clean and equitable transportation by accelerating the transition to electric transportation throughout the state, with a heavy focus on projects that help environmental justice communities.

Promoting Blue Carbon in Coastal Areas: New Jersey’s coastal ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise. The DEP is responsible for funding initiatives that will protect and enhance ecosystems such as salt marshes, tidal wetlands and seagrass beds, which are particularly important in the fight against climate change.

Blue carbon is the carbon stored by the soils and plants in these marine systems. These ecosystems also create resilience by creating buffers that help protect communities from storms and flooding.

Enhancing Forests and Urban Forests: The DEP also will focus on projects that restore and improve the health of forests, including urban and community forests. Forests play a critical role in the carbon cycle, serving as a stock of sequestered carbon and continually removing and storing additional carbon from the atmosphere. Additionally, urban and community forests provide shade and reduce the need for energy produced for air conditioning.

Establishing a New Jersey Green Bank: The EDA will establish a Green Bank to leverage funding and stimulate financial opportunities in New Jersey’s clean energy innovation economy. Consistent with the Plan’s overall environmental justice objectives, a substantial focus of a New Jersey Green Bank will be improving capital access for those who have traditionally had more difficulty in accessing the benefits of participation in the green economy. In addition to driving new investments and creating new jobs, Green Bank financing mechanisms will accelerate the deployment of clean energy and drive the evolution of the grid and energy infrastructure to be more flexible, resilient, and cost-effective. For example, a Green Bank could support projects such as rooftop solar in low-income areas or energy efficiency retrofits for smaller main street businesses. A Green Bank will also give priority to those projects that provide training and create highquality jobs for New Jerseyans seeking to benefit from the state’s clean energy transition.

These initiative areas reflect the mandates of the Global Warming Solutions Act, extensive public feedback collected during the 2018 RGGI rulemaking as well as feedback from a public scoping process.

The state received valuable input from diverse stakeholders including

municipalities, unions, environmental groups, environmental justice advocates, transportation planners, the energy sector and resource conservation groups.

As one of his first actions upon taking office, Gov. Murphy signed Executive Order No. 7, directing New Jersey to re-enter RGGI and take actions to address climate change, with an emphasis on projects benefiting environmental justice communities.

The administration has since taken numerous actions to address carbon pollution and to make the state more resilient to climate change, including the development of a Statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy to be publicly released later this year.

Winery donates profits to healthcare workers Hunterdon County’s Unionville Vineyards is donating all profits from sales of Dry Riesling in the months of April and May to support front line healthcare workers in the battle against COVID-19. The winery will purchase lunches and other requested items for the nurses and doctors tending to COVID cases at hospitals across the region.

“It’s important to let our healthcare professionals know that they have support from their communities outside the hospital walls,” said John Cifelli, the winery’s general manager.

“They’re caring for the friends and family members of the region’s residents, often without proper protective equipment and doing so for long hours under physical and emotional duress. Donating a meal or sending a care package is a meaningful gesture we can make to remind them that all of New Jersey stands with them.”

After announcing the campaign on social media in early April, the campaign raised over $1,500 in the first week. The winery made its first contribution to healthcare workers April 8. Each meal donation will use a different restaurant.

Unionville’s wines are available online at www.unionvillevineyards.com or over the phone at 908-788-0400, ext. 2. Residents of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York receive free shipping on purchases of six or more bottles.

Contactless pickup at the winery’s parking lot at 9 Rocktown Road in East Amwell is available seven days a week, from noon to 5 p.m.

Orders can also be picked up at Unionville’s wine bar at Ferry Market, 32 South Main Street in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Thursday to Sunday noon to 7 p.m.

Unionville Vineyards produces wines from 47 acres of vineyard planted at sites in Ringoes, Hopewell, and Princeton.

In addition, if Medicaid benefits are denied, assistance for eligible patients can be extended past the 90-day window until the end of the year. People applying for this program must have a valid prescription for a Novo Nordisk insulin and meet certain eligibility criteria, which can be found on www. novocare.com.

Because there may be situations where required enrollment documentation is not quickly accessible and a patient may be at risk of rationing insulin, the company also has an immediate supply option available.

“Millions of people are losing jobs and health coverage, and that’s especially tragic if you have a chronic disease like diabetes, said said Doug Langa, executive vice president, North America operations and president of Novo Nordisk. “We know people need more help right now and we want to do something that could make an immediate difference… Patients have enough issues to worry about at this moment. We don’t want being able to pay for their insulin to be one of them.”

Realtors report increase in sight-unseen sales A quarter of realtors with clients putting contracts on homes last week had at least one do so without physically seeing the property, according to a new survey from the National Association of Realtors.

For those clients, the median amount of homes toured—either virtually or in person—before putting a contract on a home was just three. NAR’s 2019 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers found buyers typically looked at nine homes before placing a contract on a home.

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Edited by Rob Anthes “Expect second quarter home sales activity to slow down with the broad observance of stay-at-home orders, but sales will pick up when the economy reopens as many potential home buyers and sellers indicate they’re still in the market or will be in a couple of months” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “Home prices remain stable as deals continue to happen with the growing use of new technology tools. Remarkably, 10% of Realtors report the same level of or even more business activity now than before the economic lockdown.”

NAR’s latest Economic Pulse Flash Survey—conducted April 1213—asked members about how the coronavirus outbreak has impacted the residential and commercial real estate markets. A third of Realtors reported no closing delays. For those reporting delays, the top reasons listed included delays in financing, appraisals and home inspections. Residential tenants are facing rent payment issues, but many delayed payment requests are being accommodated. Forty-one percent of property managers reported being able to accommodate tenants who cannot pay rent and about a quarter of individual landlords said the same.

NAR also released its 2020 Down Payment Expectations & Hurdles to Home Ownership report, which offers home buyer, consumer, and Realtor perspectives on down payments and family involvement in the home buying process. Several highlights include that nearly a quarter of Millennials— 24%— received down payment assistance from a parent or relative. A majority of Realtors—65%— said that in the last five years they’ve had clients receive down payment assistance from a parent or relative.

More information about NAR is available at www.nar.realtor.

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Rob Anthes In recent weeks, there have been a number of images taken of animals wandering spaces vacated by humans due to the coronavirus pandemic.

There were the goats running through a village in Wales, monkeys overtaking a city in Thailand, bears reclaiming Yosemite Valley. None of these are too terribly surprising if you’ve been to any of those places, but it hasn’t stopped some people from becoming philosophical online about man’s effect on nature.

This, as do all things on the internet, led to the creation of a meme. “Nature is healing. We are the virus,” it said. In other words, it mocked some’s notion that, with the novel coronavirus getting humans out of the way, the natural world had begun to restore order.

The meme often is accompanied by photos that wink at its satirical nature—of scooters discarded in rivers or a giant rubber duck floating beneath London’s Tower Bridge or perhaps pizzas “growing” in trees in Italy.

To believe the sentiment earnestly is, of course, insensitive and borderline misanthropic. COVID-19 has been credited as a factor in more than 170,000 deaths worldwide. It has disrupted countless more lives, and stalled out the global economy. We can joke about the coronavirus, but its effect on the world isn’t really a joke.

But, if we set aside both the inhumane and the sarcastic, it is true that those images of goats and monkeys prove what we all know deep down—the natural world would be just fine without us.

But what about the future of the earth with us? Well, that’s another story.

Today—the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—is as good a day as any to examine our relationship with the world around us, particularly because much has changed in the half century since Earth Day’s inception.

The first Earth Day is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement.

From the one event sprung not only mainstream environmental activism, but also the regulatory framework we know today. Due to the movement, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Senate worked with the president, Republican Richard Nixon, to create the suite of environmental legislation and the agency that enforces it, the Environmental Protection Agency. Here in New Jersey, much the same occurred, with Republican Gov. William Cahill founding the Department of Environmental Protection on April 22, 1970, in recognition of Earth Day. Somehow, since then, the conversation around the environment has transformed from questions of stewardship and interconnectedness to one of a more partisan flavor.

Which brings us to today. The theme for Earth Day 2020 is climate action, with Earth Day Network saying “climate change represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the lifesupport systems that make our world habitable.”

“Climate change” is a phrase that causes plenty of people to bristle. But the truth is 99.9% of scientists have long concluded the planet is warming faster than it would naturally and have moved on to solving how we can adapt to this new reality.

And, despite the political discourse, governments at all levels have done much the same.

But, if climate change is this wide-ranging, globe-spanning existential crisis that has captured the attention of top scientists and governments alike, then why should we as individuals care? Well, just like all politics is local, even the largest planetary issues have their applications at the most local of levels.

We’ve seen that firsthand already in this area. The Delaware River has been hailed as a triumph, with American Rivers naming it 2020’s River of the Year for the environmental community’s success in rehabilitating the river and its ecosystem. But climate change threatens the Delaware once again, particularly in the river’s upper and lower estuary where things like sea-level rise could mean an increase in the frequency of flooding as well as a saltwater contamination of the river’s freshwater. For those who live along the Delaware River and its many tributaries, this means not only your property could be at-risk but also the source of drinking water for you and roughly 15 million other people, too.

Then, there are stories like Jimin Kang’s piece in this issue about how the effects of climate change— the shifting of seasons, the wetter, warmer, unpredictable weather— have pushed small and familyowned farms to the brink, including those right here in the Princeton area. Just a few months ago, Z Food Farm in Lawrence closed for good—with the effects of climate change as one of the cited reasons.

A handful of other local farms have closed up, too, since last summer, and that was before COVID-19

disrupted everything further.

The good news is that Princeton is home to some of the people working to solve this issue, at Princeton University and nonprofits like Climate Central. We just have to listen to their findings.

Because, like it or not, we probably will have to change how we live for the long haul.

Many in the environmental community are using COVID-19 as a case study for what life could be like with a few more decades of climate change. And while it’s true coronavirus-related shutdowns have caused greenhouse gas emissions to drop across the globe (including an estimated 25% in China in February), those reductions are not only temporary—they’d also be insufficient to stave off climate change if somehow made permanent.

According to Carbon Brief, the early estimate on the worldwide global emissions reduction in 2020 sits at 4%. That’s just more than half of the 7.6% reduction goal set by the United Nations. (The UN says to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C and avoid the worst climate change impacts, we’d need to reduce emissions 7.6% a year, every year, between 2020 and 2030.)

It shows how far we really have to go and how much change we’d actually have to make, if we take the climate crisis seriously. Merely shutting down the economy and locking ourselves indoors for six weeks won’t do it.

On the cover of this week’s U.S.1 is a photograph, taken on December 7, 1972, that is one of the most well-known images in existence. It is one of the few photos to show an almost fully illuminated Earth. According to NASA, the as-

tronauts had the sun behind them when they took the image, which aside from providing the proper lighting for a photograph, gave the earth the appearance of a glass marble. The image has come to be known as the “Blue Marble” photograph, and is featured on the Earth Day flag.

Earth Day itself has celestial origins. The Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 missions in 1969 provided some of the first quality images of Earth on the planetary scale. The photographs provided perspective, and convinced the public that Earth was something we had to preserve.

That’s an important lesson, and one many of us take for granted: the earth is a remarkable home, but it isn’t a home we are entitled to have.

Our actions have implications.

There is a popular phrase in the environmental doomsday community—yes, it’s a thing—that “nature bats last.” In other words, we’re the visitors in the baseball game of existence. Nature has the final swings.

It’s never wise to subscribe to conspiracy theories, but there’s some truth to this motto, at least.

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that no amount of resources or knowledge can prevent nature from doing what it does. We can only use what we know already to respond and better prepare for the future. It’s a wonderful takeaway to apply to the climate crisis.

If we want a future on this planet, we’re going to have to earn it.

Rob Anthes is acting editor of U.S.1. He can be reached at ranthes@communitynews.org, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ robanthes or on Twitter at www. twitter.com/robanthes.

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Baby Boomers Seek “Best of Both Worlds” Retirement Care Springpoint Choice Offers ‘Continuing Care at Home’ Option

amenities and activities available at any of Springpoint’s eight continuing care retirement communities located throughout New Jersey and Delaware. They can participate in LivWell, Springpoint’s award-winning health and wellness program. This program is aligned with HHS recommendations for healthy aging that include staying active, staying connected to your community, eating well, understanding mental health and attending to brain health.

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any older adults who are weighing their retirement care options want to remain in their homes for the foreseeable future—forever if possible. While aging in place is desirable for many people who would rather not live in a community setting, the issue of healthcare looms large—and rightly so. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reports that approximately 7 out of every 10 people who turn 65 can expect to use some form of long-term care during their lives. According to Genworth Financial Inc., an S&P 400 insurance company that focuses on financial solutions for long-term care, the 2018 New Jersey state median care costs range from $54,912 a year for a home health aide to $142,350 a year for nursing home care and these figures will continue to rise. Generally, neither health insurance nor Medicare covers these expenses. This is why having a plan is crucial for anyone approaching retirement who wants to

protect their assets, retain the savings they’ve worked so hard to build and have guaranteed future care.

One plan that’s gaining traction as an excellent, best-of-both-worlds retirement care option for adults ages 55 and older is called “continuing care at home.” It allows members to remain in their current homes, receive personal assistance, protect themselves from escalating long-term care costs and have access to first-class senior care when needed. One such continuing care at home program is now available in New Jersey through Springpoint Choice, operated by Springpoint, the Mid-Atlantic region’s premier nonprofit senior care provider for over 100 years.

Because life is unpredictable, it’s a great comfort to know that if members need rehabilitative care, home care, assisted living or a more permanent skilled nursing or memory care living arrangement, they have access to Springpoint’s network of long-term care services.

To enjoy Springpoint Choice membership, the eligibility requirements include: • Minimum age 55 • Living independently • Completion of application process • Completion of health screening • Adequate medical insurance coverage If you are interested in remaining in your own home for as long as possible while securing a smart plan for your future that protects your assets and addresses any future health needs, call 866-778-3255 or visit springpointchoice.org to learn more.

It’s your journey, your choice.

The Springpoint Choice program pairs members with personal care navigators dedicated to providing the one-on-one attention that helps seniors age in place and remain at home longer. Members enjoy the

Springpoint Choice is a new program for active, independent, healthy adults who are planning for the future. Members who join Springpoint Choice will benefit from care coordination of future long-term care needs while gaining access to Springpoint’s network of long-term care services and personalized health and wellness programs.

For more information, call us at 866-778-3255 We’d love to hear from you!

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