Areas of sustainable opporunity are revealed through inquiry. Where to start? Examine your organization’s waste stream; what type of packaging is being used across the company and for its products, is recycling enforced, where does the garbage go and what are the costs associated with this? Examine the food systems where does the food come from, how much energy did it take to get here, what does that service packaging look like and where does it go when the food or drink is consumed; how can thi… Continue

NOFA NJ will be hosting it's19th Annual Winter Conference on Saturday January 31, 2009. All day at Rutgers Cook campus.
Conference name: Growing a Greener New Jersey.
400-500 attendees from farmers to people interested in starting their own garden in their backyard or bee hives or nutrition or organic sustainable business models.
Very diverse agenda of presenters and very diverse audience. Organic food for lunch will be offered.
I am volunteering for NOFA and doing a lot of the planning and orga… Continue

The newly renovated Twin Maples Centennial Show House will officially open its doors to the public on October1, 2008 and run through November 2. Advance tickets are $25 or $30 at the door, with Month-Long tickets $50. Proceeds will benefit both The Carol G. Simon Canc… Continue

Weaving together the state’s policies on energy, the environment, land use, and the economy, especially in the context of the state’s ongoing budget problems, is no easy task.

Over the past several weeks I have attended a half-dozen conferences on these topics, including sessions on the Energy Master Plan, the New Jersey Utilities Association Conference (where I moderated a panel), and PlanSmart NJ’s spring conference, as well as hosting my own event at Fairleigh Dickinson University on “growin… Continue

The world today is facing an unprecedented set of crises.

The most recent to burst upon public awareness is that of global warming, and it is indeed a matter of urgency and of critical importance. We have, according to the latest scientific estimates, only
seven years in which to level off our greenhouse gas emissions - and
then begin to reduce them sharply - if we are to avoid catastrophic
climate change. This alone requires a massive transformation of our
infrastructure, our economy,

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