Posted in Jewish Holidays, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, tagged Climate Change, Copenhagen, ecology, Environment, Global Warming, israel, Judaism, Mourning, Ninth of Av, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Tisha B'Av on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
Recently I was asked an interesting question by an Israel environmental leader.
“I was a bit surprised and somewhat dismayed,” he began, ”to find out that the date chosen for the Copenhagen Planning Seminar was also Tisha B’Av.”
A bit of background for the uninitiated:
1. The Copenhagen Summit in December is a gathering of world [...]
Posted in By Yannai Kranzler, Climate Change Economics, tagged cap and trade, Climate Change, Daily Show, ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Markey Waxman, Steven Chu on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Yannai Kranzler
How do you effectively photograph the earth getting a few degrees warmer? Or sea levels rising? Or animals migrating from native habitats?
Marketing Climate Change has always been a challenge. And even more complicated has been marketing solutions: the intricacies of sustainable economics are just not that thrilling for most people, not to mention [...]
Posted in Climate Crisis, Jewish Holidays, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, tagged Climate Change, Copenhagen, ecology, Environment, Fasting, Global Warming, Jews, Judaism, Kyoto, Mourning, Talmud, Teshuva, Three Weeks, Tisha B'Av on July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
The Copenhagen Summit in December is a gathering of world leaders that aims to bash out a successor agreement to the Kyoto protocol that will limit CO2 emissions going forward. It is widely seen as a critical moment in the global effort to address the threat of climate change.
There is a remarkable [...]
Posted in ecology, tagged Climate Change, Global Warming, Energy, Happy Planet Index, HPI, GDP, Ecological Footprint on July 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
How are we doing?
Not as well as you might think, according to the Happy Planet Index (HPI) which released it’s third annual ranking of nearly all the world’s countries last week.
The HPI is an alternative to GDP as a measure of national well-being. A country’s HPI score is calculated by multiplying together its life expectancy and [...]
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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