Ensuring the Future by Acting in the Present
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Archive for August, 2010Green Drinks this week!We know it’s technically still summer, but we are back and ready to network! Join us on September 1st! Stop by and hang out with us in the back bar at PJ’s. SCH has its own chapter of this popular social and business networking happy hour that brings together a wide array of environmentally minded [...]
Collaborative effort hopes to win Bikeway grantLast summer, Sustainable Cherry Hill hosted a community visioning conference called, “Cherry Hill 2020: Shaping a Sustainable Future”. One of the outcomes of that process was the formation of a series of community led task forces, each addressing a unique aspect of sustainability in Cherry Hill. The Way to Go group formed with a mission of: “ advocating [...]
August 21: The day we “overshot” the EarthToday is August 21, 2010. Â As of this day, we, as a global community, have just used up all the natural resources that our planet can produce in one year. Tomorrow, well… we start accumulating debt and we all know what a bummer being in debt is. Â Humanity currently uses the equivalent of 1.4 planets [...]
A weekend of deep work and huge rocksI was up early this morning, reflecting on the past four days that I spent at a Pennsylvania mountain retreat as an Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) Fellow. Â ELP’s mission of “inspiring visionary, action oriented and diverse leadership to work for a just and sustainable future” targets “emerging environmental and social change practitioners eager to connect [...]
Green Drinks is baaaack!We know it’s technically still summer, but we are back and ready to network! Join us on September 1st! Stop by and hang out with us in the back bar at PJ’s. SCH has its own chapter of this popular social and business networking happy hour that brings together a wide array of environmentally minded [...]
The Butterfly Effect in ActionIt has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. Â This morning, I discovered my own little “Butterfly Effect” right here in Cherry Hill, NJ. Â The “flutter” happened about a year and a half ago. Â I was asked to give a [...]
From NJ to Chicago in Service of SustainabilityLast month, I had the opportunity to go to Chicago for the 4th Annual Community Gathering of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) Education Partnership.  The SoL Ed Partnership is making a significant contribution to sustainability by increasing the capacity of  schools and communities to work together in ” elegant and seamless collaboration”.  As a [...]
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