Founder of Heschel Center, Dr. Eilon Schwartz on What Jews can do about Climate Change

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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Carbon Offsetting: It Really is That Easy

By Yannai Kranzler
I just finished offsetting 20,000 miles of airplane carbon emissions. I also just started. Because the whole thing took about five minutes.
I decided to offset, to counter the emissions from mine and my wife, Chana’s recent visit to my family in New York. We chose to buy carbon credits from the Heschel Center’s [...]

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Are “Feel-Good” Green Products Any Good for the World? Go Green-Earn Big, Part II

Since posting, “Go Green-Earn Big: The Nice Guy Finally Wins“, we’ve been engaged in a lively debate on whether products like disposable “Eco-Shaped” bottles and hybrid SUV’s are positive trends representing a genuine fixing, or setbacks allowing people to feel good without giving attention to the real changes that need to happen.
The Heschel Center’s Dr. Jeremy [...]

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