Land Management: Gardens/Public Space/Affordable Housing

Land management issues cut across many other matters related to our environment. We are exploring some of these in this show.

• Jenny Greenberg, Camille Poinvil, and Vita Litvak will talk about community gardens and the Neighborhood Gardens Trust. NGT is an organization that attempts to preserve land for gardens and open space by putting it in a conservation trust, a unique way of preserving land. Jenny is the Executive Director; Camille started SeyPor Garden, lives in Germantown, and is the community outreach coordinator for Weavers Way Coop; and Vita is the lead garden organizer for Pastorius Community Garden located in Germantown.
• Steve Luxton is the Executive Director of the Energy Coordinating Agency which creates lasting solutions to the energy problems of low and moderate-income Philadelphians, particularly focusing on fixing their homes and on training people for weatherization and renewable energy jobs. He will provide a preview of a new home repair program which may be a model for the whole country.
• Editorial comments:  on land management issues engendered by the above.