Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Jewish Climate Initiatve, tagged Environmentalism, George Carlin, Jewish Climate Initiative, Save the Planet on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In memory of the late George Carlin, we’d like to present to you his take on environmental protection and, “Saving the Planet.” We’ll offer our take at the end, too. Enjoy!
(If you can’t see the video player, click here)
Absurdities aside, Mr. Carlin makes some important points:
1. Environmentalists have often [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Jewish Climate Initiatve, Jewish Ecology, Jewish Environmentalism on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“For the Jewish community to make a difference on environmental issues, we need brutal honesty to begin with. Jews are now roughly 0.2% of the world’s population; less than the margin of error on the Indian census. If all the Jews in the world recycle their newspapers it will make… pretty much no difference whatsoever. [...]
Posted in Israel Environment, Jewish Climate Initiatve, Luz, Luz2, Renewable Energy, Solar Power on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We were there, in the Negev Desert on Thursday afternoon, June 12th 2008, when Luz 2inaugurated its first solar energy generating plant.
Two of the JCI team, Michael Kagan and David Miron Wapner had a hand in setting up the company two years ago ago, so it was a proud day for them. For me [...]
Posted in Environment, Ruth, Shavuot, ecology, male-female on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the debate between environmentalism and ecology the two can be differentiated along the male-female dialectic.
Thus the former can be loosely viewed as the identification of a problem and its attempted solution – a sort of head to head approach – a stereotypical male stance. Whereas the latter is about the welfare of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from an amazing trip to the US where I met some extraordinary thinkers and doers making a difference in the field of climate change and religion. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be unpacking some of the experiences and insights that I brought home with me, as well as inviting some of the [...]
I'm Julian, Co-Founder of Jewish Climate Initiative. We invite you to join us as we draw on Jewish sources and spirituality for wisdom to help shape changes in behavior, policy and consciousness in response to the challenge of global climate change.
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