By Yannai Kranzler
What an incredible time to live in: where the best thing a company can do for itself is convince us not only that a product is good, but that it is good for the world.
I just spent a week in New York with my family for the Jewish holidays. Upon arrival, I was [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Go Green-Earn Big. The Nice Guys Finally Win
Posted in Climate Change, Taking Action, tagged america, Climate Change, ecology, Environment, Global Warming, go green, judaism & ecology, local, nestle, poland spring eco shaped bottle, rebbes on October 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
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Posted in By Michael Kagan, Jewish Holidays, tagged abel, abraham, adam, agriculture, cain, dan quinn, ecology, eve, isaac, ishmael, Jewish Holidays, leavers, Michael Kagan, seth, sukkah, sukkot, takers on October 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Michael Kagan
Author of the Holistic Haggadah (Urim)
Sitting in my succah this year I began to think about the significance of leaving my home for seven days and living (as much as possible) in a temporary tabernacle open to the heat, wind and rain (yes, it rained on succot in Jerusalem). If we are meant [...]
Carrots and Climate Change: Hazon Interviews JCI’s Rabbi Julian Sinclair on Food, Sustainability, Judaism and the Global Climate
Posted in Climate Crisis, Israel Environment, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, Solar Power, Uncategorized, tagged Climate Change, Climate Crisis, david miron wapner, ecology, Environment, food, global, Global Warming, hazon, israel, jew and the carrot, Judaism, julian sinclair, mahane yehuda, michael pollan, nigel savage, sustainability on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As featured on Hazon’s The Jew and the Carrot.
By Nina Budabin McQuown.
Rabbi Julian Sinclair is an author, educator, and economist. He is also the co-founder and Director of Education for Jewish Climate Initiative, a Jerusalem based NGO that is articulating and mobilizing a Jewish response to climate change. Before starting JCI, Julian worked as [...]
Not Eco-Teshuvah; Just Teshuvah
Posted in Climate Crisis, Policy, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, tagged yom kippur teshuvah carbon offsetting environment ecolo on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
What does Teshuvah, the power to change our lives for the better that we attempt to actualize at this, the highest moment in the Jewish year, have to do with reducing one’s carbon footprint? Isn’t connecting the two just a way of hitching a ride for one’s pet cause on the Jewish [...]
New Year’s Carbon Offsetting Guide, from Jewish Climate Initiative
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Policy, tagged carbon offsetting, Climate Change, credits, ecology, Environment, Global Warming, go neutral, good energy initiative on October 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today more and more synagogues, JCC’s, families and individuals are going green. Carbon offsetting is a way of counteracting some of our carbon footprint; it can also be incredibly confusing. How does it work? Is it ethical? Is it Jewish? How can I know if an offsetting program is really helping save the world or [...]
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