By Yannai Kranzler
How would you respond to sitting on an airplane, digging into the seat pocket in front of you, to discover that your complementary in-flight magazine was dedicated to caring for the environment?
Would you be thankful? Hopeful? Would you laugh? Would you sigh and say, “Well, I’m the one paying them to emit Carbon [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
Praying for Rain: Who Affects the Weather, God or Us?
Posted in Jewish Holidays, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, Uncategorized, tagged Climate Change, ecology, environmnet, Global Warming, israel, rain, sukkot on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A Couple of Thoughts for Yom Kippur
Posted in Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Rabbi Julian Sinclair, Religion and Climate Change, tagged Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Jonah, Yom Kippur on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
The Power of One
On Yom Kippur we examine our actions. The scrupulous review of our deeds that the day calls for teaches us that everything we do, however small it may seem matters a great deal, often far more than we can even imagine.
Maimonides writes in The Laws of Teshuvah:
Therefore a person [...]
A Space for Being Sad
Posted in By Yannai Kranzler, Climate Change, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, tagged Climate Change, ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Judaism, sadness, Tisha B'Av on August 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
By Yannai Kranzler
I was a bit late to Beit Knesset, synagogue, last Thursday morning, on the Ninth of Av. By the time I arrived, it was already full of men and women praying quietly. A Jerusalem community known for singing and loud, lively davening, on this day, everyone was solemn, contemplative. Some sat glumly on [...]
The Ninth of Av, Copenhagen and Climate Change
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 [...]
Jon Stewart on Cap & Trade: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
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 [...]
Climate Change, Copenhagen and the Three Weeks
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 [...]
The Happy Planet Index: Putting the Eco back into Economics
Posted in ecology, tagged Climate Change, Ecological Footprint, Energy, GDP, Global Warming, Happy Planet Index, HPI 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 [...]
Founder of Heschel Center, Dr. Eilon Schwartz on What Jews can do about Climate Change
Posted in Climate Change, Israel Environment, Judaism, ecology, tagged Climate Change, Dr. Eilon Schwartz, ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Heschel Center, Judaism, Madoff, Policy, Ponzi Scheme on June 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hi Everyone,
In the following video, Dr. Eilon Schwartz, founder of Israel’s Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership challenges us to own up to our own implications in causing climate change, as well as our reservations in fighting it, and makes important suggestions as to what we can do, at Jewish Climate Initiative/Hazon’s Vayehi Or: [...]
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