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Caren Kaufman
Apr 22 2025April 22, 2025

2025 Caren Kaufman Memorial Fund Grantees Announced

Leave a Comment / Contest, Environmental Education, Featured, Grants, News / Dana Patterson

On Earth Day 2025, Sustainable South Jersey awarded $3,400 from its Caren Kaufman Memorial Fund to five community organizations in South Jersey. The program was created to honor Caren Kaufman, […]

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woman-foraging-wild-onions_Andi-Craciun
Sep 8 2024September 11, 2024

Foraging for Sustainable Futures

Leave a Comment / Environmental Education, Foraging / Mox Engelman

Foraging Illustration by Andi Craciun What is Foraging?   Foraging is defined as the searching for and gathering of food from wild sources. Animals throughout the history of life on

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Aug 14 2023August 21, 2023

Taking a Look at Lawns

1 Comment / Landscape Design / Mox Engelman

  Problematic History The grassy lawn has become a staple of the American landscape especially in suburbia. It is a point of pride for some and a chore for others,

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Apr 18 2020April 22, 2020

Beauty in Our Backyards

Leave a Comment / Contest / Mike Fox

As we enter this spring in a global pandemic, things are feeling… well, weird. New Jersey continues to battle a growing infection and death rate from COVID-19 and our Governor

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Nov 12 2019February 29, 2020

Free Download: Presentations from our September Meetup

Leave a Comment / Events, Uncategorized / Dana Patterson

  If you weren’t able to make it to Sustainable South Jersey’s “Welcome Back” Meetup at the Collingswood Community Center on September 18th, let us tell you a bit about

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Nov 10 2019February 29, 2020

Just Announced! #FindOurGreta Contest Winners

1 Comment / Climate Change, Contest, Uncategorized / Dana Patterson

Sustainable South Jersey wants to help encourage and acknowledge the youth of Southern New Jersey who have worked to take action against climate change. Drawing inspiration from Swedish teenager Greta

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Sep 4 2019February 29, 2020

#FindOurGreta Contest: Nominate a Youth Climate Activist

Leave a Comment / Agent for Change, Climate Change, Contest, Events, News / Mike Fox

CONTEST   Our new contest seeks to find, empower, and reward South Jersey youth eco-champions for  in their local communities. Entry submission date extended!   Great news: Greta Thunberg has

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Jun 25 2019February 29, 2020

#FindOurGreta Contest: Nominate a Youth Climate Activist

Leave a Comment / Agent for Change, Climate Change, Contest, Events, News / Dana Patterson

Nomination are closed. Please vote on our Facebook page until Nov 1, 2019.  Our new contest seeks to find, empower, and reward South Jersey youth eco-champions for  in their local communities. Sustainable

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Jun 2 2018February 29, 2020

Eco-Smart Travel: What You Should Know

Leave a Comment / News / Ed Cohen

  QUICK LINKS FOR SAVVY “GREEN” TRAVELERS! Avoid — Reduce — Offset Apply the “Avoid-Reduce-Offset approach: fly less frequently (AVOID), choose non-stop flights that have less take-offs and landings (REDUCE),

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May 9 2018

Thousands Attend Our Earth Festival

Leave a Comment / Events, Featured, News, Uncategorized / Ed Cohen

When we plan the annual Earth Festival, we thoughtfully work to create an event that includes something for everyone. Our 9th festival April 28th at historic Croft Farm focused on

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