Ensuring the Future by Acting in the Present
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Archive for July, 2009A first person point of view…Former Editor of The Jewish Voice, Harriet Kessler, writes this first person account of Cherry Hill 2020: Shaping a Sustainable Future… Sustainable Cherry Hill hopes to chart the region’s future First person: HARRIET KESSLER Visions of crowing roosters instead of electric alarm clocks, sub-developments interspersed with neighborhood farms, and workday rush hour pedestrian parades throughout [...]
The next best thing to being there…What do you get when you put almost 100 community members in a room for 16 hours over three days? A shared vision of sustainability, an action plan and energized task forces to make sure we get there. An added bonus… a strong sense of community! Cherry Hill 2020: Shaping a Sustainable Future (The Video)
NJ’s Secretary of Agriculture Shares OUR ValuesHere in NJ, we have a relatively new Secretary of Agriculture by the name of Doug Fisher. When he was in Cherry Hill recently, he chatted with me about all the common goals his agency shares with Sustainable Cherry Hill.
What do You want the future to look like?It’s July 2020 and the people of Cherry Hill, NJ are just waking up to start their busy days. Mom hops on the new Cherry Hill bio diesel fueled jitney as she makes her way to work on the other side of town. She calls a friend to meet her for lunch at one of [...]
A picture IS a thousand words…Now that Cherry Hill 2020: Shaping a Sustainable Future has happened, we face the challenge of communicating it’s process and product with the public and turning our results into action. Stay tuned for more information, but in the meantime… Check out our “Word Cloud”. At the end of the conference, we sat in a huge [...]
It’s SOOO easy for Cherry Hill lawns to GO NATIVE(by Jay Lassiter)– Far be it from me to be a corporate shill for The Man, but sometimes ya just gotta give credit when it’s due. Like today for example. I was at Lowe’s Garden Center in nearby Lawnside, NJ (our next door neighbor to the south) when i noticed their “Native Plants” series. Now [...]
"Sustainable Future is Focus for Cherry Hill"We’ve been really busy saving the planet which (sadly) leaves less time to blog about it. But something things are too good to let pass without a mention. Like all the media attention Sustainable Cherry Hill’s efforts are gaining ’round the region. From yesterday’s Courier Post: About 85 Cherry Hill residents, business owners, environmentalists and [...]
Jersey Farmers "light years" ahead of other statesWhen it comes to food safety, local farms are way ahead of the game compared to the massive scale operations that gave us the infamous spinach recall. Says one farmer: “Most of the farmers here (in New Jersey) are so advanced,” Butterhof said. “I think we’re light years ahead” of other states. Sounds Jersey Fresh [...]
Go Fish… or Not.With the world’s attention focused squarely on on climate change, it is easy to be fooled into thinking that CO2 emissions are at the root of global environmental problems. The truth is that climate change is but one indication that we are living beyond our means. Nature has rules. We just haven’t been paying attention [...]
No fare hikes on NJ Transit. For now.In spite of budget cuts felt ’round the state (and the nation) there’s one thing not on the chopping block this year: New Jersey Transit service. Fare increases are off the table as well, thank goodness. Which means commuting to Philly or Atlantic CIty from Cherry Hill is just as easy as it always has [...]
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