Ensuring the Future by Acting in the Present
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Archive for the ‘Task Forces – Regional/Urban Partnerships for Sustainability’ CategoryIt Takes a Sustainable VillageBrainstorming about sustainability is challenging, invigorating, exciting and yes, exhausting. It’s a complicated topic. Tonight (1/30/13), the South Jersey Green Network led by Sustainable Cherry Hill, brought people from Camden, Stratford, Haddonfield and other communities in and around Camden, Burlington and Gloucester Counties to hear about best practices and yes, share some of the walls [...]
Getting Camden ready for plantingSustainable Cherry Hill and Camden’s Center for Transformation have partnered up to bridge the gap between Camden and it’s suburbs. Using positive collaborative experiences like working side by side in Waterfront South’s Eve’s Garden, are a wonderful way to connect and create! Weather permitting (and it looks like a high in the 50′s), we will [...]
It’s a long ten miles from Cherry Hill to CamdenThis afternoon, a group of Cherry Hill teachers, students and parents took a trip over to Waterfront South Camden to tour the greenhouse, garden and the neighborhood around The Center for Transformation (CFT). Â Representatives from Cherry Hill East High School, Beck Middle School and Woodcrest Elementary School came to Camden to learn how to start [...]
Hard work and nourishment for the soulLast Thursday, Sustainable Cherry Hill sponsored a screening of the film “The Poet of Poverty” and a panel discussion with Fr. Michael Doyle from Sacred Heart Church as well as Mark Doorley and Andrea Ferich from The Center for Transformation in Camden. The topic of the program was Camden and the Suburbs: How are we [...]
The Poet of Poverty is SOLD OUT!The response from the community has been overwhelming and we are currently over subscribed to the screening of the documentary “The Poet of Poverty” and the following panel discussion with Fr. Michael Doyle and representatives from The Center for Transformation. For those with reservations for the January 21st Poet of Poverty program, please get there [...]
Heirloom seedling sale grows more than just vegetablesSustainable Cherry Hill is partnering with Camden’s The Center for Transformation (CFT)Â to foster a connection between Camden and its suburbs. One of the ways we are doing this is through an heirloom seed/seedling sale. Suburban gardeners everywhere start dreaming of their summer vegetable gardens in January as they fantasize about which tomatoes, green beans [...]
Volunteers transforming Camden neighborhood“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”  Martin Luther King In the spirit of the upcoming celebration of Dr. King, take a moment to read this article from this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer, [...]
The “Poet of Poverty” is coming to Cherry HillThis is a film about one man’s words. This searing film tells the story of Camden through the eyes of its most poetic defender, Father Michael Doyle, the Poet of Poverty. Narrated by Martin Sheen, Father Doyle’s words and poems bear witness to the disproportionate suffering born by the people of Camden. His words, originally [...]
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