Faith at the Summit: Hope and the Bishop of Canterbury

Two more COP15 videos from Odyssey Networks: Day’s 5 and 6 in Copenhagen. Enjoy! (If you can’t see a video player on your screen, click on the image below. Otherwise, visit Odyssey Networks’ videos page.
From Day 6, “The Bishop of Canterbury

and Day 5’s “Finding Hope”:

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Day Three of Faith at the Summit: At the Klimaforum

Hi Everyone,
The following is the third in the video series Odyssey Networks has released on the Faith at the Summit conference, paralleling COP15 in Copenhagen. We’ll continue to post their videos as the conference continues to progress. Enjoy, and keep praying for some serious action on climate change!
(If you can’t see the video from this [...]

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Video: Faith at the Summit – Advice for President Obama

JCI’s Dr. Michael Kagan and other faith leaders offer spiritual advice to President Obama, who will be joining COP15 in Copenhagen- Day 2 at the conference, by Odyssey Networks.

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Sisters Bring Brothers Together in Copenhagen: Dr. Kagan joins Monks, Nuns, Swamis, Reverends, Ministers, Sheikhs and Rabbis at COP15

By Dr. Michael Kagan, co-founder of Jewish Climate Initiative
Dear Friends,
I am in Copenhagen as a representative of Judaism at a satellite conference taking place around the COP15.  The conference is organized by the Global Peace Initiative of Women.  My first reaction when initially invited was that I am of the wrong gender but I was [...]

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Sounds from Windsor

A BBC report on some of the events earlier this month that took place at the celebration of religions and conservation awareness.  It includes an exclusive interview with Dr. Michael Kagan, co-founder of the Jewish Climate Initiative.”
To Listen to the BBC Report, Click Here
And some photos from the event:

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Many Heavens, One Earth Conference, Windsor Castle, November 2009.

By Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair
Last week’s conference on world religions and climate change sponsored by the UN and ARC was an extraordinary event. You can read about it here, here and here. The gathering together of religious leaders and environmental heroes was unprecedented. So was the strong acknowledgement of the world’s religions’ critical role in confronting climate change, [...]

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Blog Action Day and the Jewish Climate Change Campaign

Shalom Climate of Change Readers,
In honor of this past week’s Blog Action Day, dedicated to the fight against climate change, we’d like to report to you on the Seven Year Jewish Climate Campaign.
We first mentioned the campaign following JCI’s Vayehi Or event in April. Since then and with help and ideas from many of you [...]

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Praying for Rain: Who Affects the Weather, God or Us?

By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
Sukkot has a special connection to rain. The Talmud (Rosh Hoshanah 16a) says that on Sukkot, we are judged for the rainfall we will receive in the coming year. On Shemini Atzeret, the final day of the holiday, we begin to say Mashiv Ha’Ruach u’morid Hagashem, in the Amidah prayer, invoking God [...]

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Corn, Hockey, and Eco Marketing to the World, One Community at a Time

By Yannai Kranzler
Breaking news, from Dayton, Ohio: Attitudes don’t predict behavior. Economic incentives don’t usually work. And sweet corn tastes best the day it’s picked.
I’ll explain:
I’ve spent the last week in Dayton, with my wife, Chana’s grandparents and cousins. I expected a quiet week- great times with Chan’s family and a nice break from the [...]

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A Green Pope, Fatwas on Illegal Mining, an Evangelical Climate Initiative and the JCI

In an article recently pubished in Green Living Magazine, Zoe Cormier covered the recent surge in religious groups mobilizing to fight global warming- from America to Indonesia to the Vatican to Jerusalem. Quoted on the Jewish side was Jewish Climate Initiative co-founder Dr. Michael Kagan!
It’s a fascinating and hopeful piece, exploring the potential for faiths [...]

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