Environmental Justice Retreats. click here to read more

The Center For Environmental Transformation is a renovated convent across the street from our greenhouse, gardens, orchard, and chickens.  Beginning in March 2011 we will host weekend and week long retreats in the Center focused on Environmental Justice.  With theory and action hand-in-hand  the retreats transform our hearts and the neighborhood.  Our location is key in teaching and addressing systemic issues of environmental injustice. Camden City is dumped on by all the region's trash, sewage, stormwater, recycling, and heavy industry.

Come and learn how we can use our creativity to create a community of people who believe another world is possible, creating jobs in Camden while improving the environment.  The Center sleeps 24 people.

To schedule a retreat or to learn more please e-mail: retreat@camdencenterfortransformation.org

First Retreat At Center. click here to read more

On Sunday, November 21, 2010 19 Villanovans, including two staff people from Campus Ministry, spent a day of retreat and planning at the Center for Environmental Transformation. While at the Center, they went on a 60 minute eco-tour with Andrea Ferich, Director of Sustainability Initiatives at the CfET. Mark Doorley and Cathy Nevins, both Board members of the CfET, joined the group for lunch and talked about the genesis of the Center as well as the future programming to be available at the Center. The group had a wonderful time. One participant remarked that her visit to Camden had more impact in the six hours spent there than a whole week in Central America! This group was the first outside of Sacred Heart Church to make use of the renovated Center