Entries tagged with 'Environment'
Gulf Update: 5 years post-Katrina, 5 months of oil
Last Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall on the Gulf Coast. Nearly five months ago, the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing eleven men, beginning the release of millions of barrels of oil, and adding endless complication to...
Remembering Katrina: A Reflection
Leslie G. Woods serves as the Representative for Domestic Poverty & Environmental Issues in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C. [Editor's Note: for more on the Reform Movement's Gulf response efforts in the five years...
Responding to the Pakistan Flood
The recent flooding in Pakistan has left millions homeless and caused overwhelming damage to thousands of communities - and sparked a global conversation about the real and immediate implications of our changing global climate. While quantifying disaster never truly does...
Gulf Update: After BP (and Katrina): Rethinking the Economy of the Gulf Coast
Jeremy Burton is the senior vice president of Philanthropic Initiatives of Jewish Funds for Justice. This entry originally appeared in Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. I met Robert Green, a resident of New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward,...
Eilu V'eilu: The Food Issue
What is your first priority in changing our food system: encouraging local eating, embracing organics, finding a modern-day version of kashrut, or something else entirely? Our current food production and distribution system poses a variety of challenges to global environmental...
The Garden of Giving
Reposted from www.jewishcamp.org/blog Ely Rosenblum is the Head of Outdoor Adventure, & Stephen Cohen is the Director of Communications at URJ Camp George It's rare that brand new camp programs integrate seamlessly into the hearts and minds of the camp community,...
Gulf Update: Out of Intensive Care
Rev. Peter Sawtell is the Executive Director of Eco-Justice Ministries, an independent ecumenical agency that helps churches care for God's creation and work toward social justice and environmental sustainability. This piece originally appeared in the August 6 version of the...
Gulf Update: Oil Disasters are a Wake Up Call
As the Gulf oil spill crisis continues through its fourth month, a recent report shows, yet again, that this disaster is one in a disturbingly long trend of accidents, explosions, and other dangerous oil industry mistakes throughout the last decade...
One Big Step Closer to Sustainable Ocean Management
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No Climate Bill, Now What?
Last week, activists and advocates nationwide reacted with disappointment when Senate Majority Leader announced that he lacked the bipartisan support to bring a comprehensive climate change and energy bill to the Senate floor this month. With the Senate's August recess...
The Power of One - Ellie vs. The Asian Carp
Ellie Moskowitz is a 5th grade student at the Roeper School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This entry was co-written with her father, Rabbi Michael Moskowitz. Learn more about her project here.It all began with a 5th grade class project. In...
Gulf Update: The Cap is On, Now What?
The Gulf finally got some good news last week as the new cap on the oil gusher appears to be temporarily stopping the flow of oil for the first time since April. Beach goers are reporting less oil on the...
Gulf Update: Rabbi Saperstein Meets with Mitzvah Corps
This entry was written by Savannah Horton and Danielle Freedman, participants in the NFTY Mitzvah Corps of the South program, following their meeting with Rabbi Saperstein in New Orleans last week. This post was edited by Dean Carson and Daniel...
Reflect, Restore, Renew: Thoughts from the Gulf
This week, Rabbi Saperstein traveled to the Gulf of Mexico with national leaders from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities to witness the effects of the BP oil spill disaster and meet with local faith leaders, response effort coordinators, and...
Gulf Update: What Can I Do (Part 2)
Elisa Sunshine is a participant in the Machon Kaplan Summer Social Action Internship program, interning at the Religious Action Center. Last week we wrote about volunteer and advocacy opportunities around the Gulf oil spill disaster; our latest update includes...
Gulf Oil Update: Rabbi Saperstein Visits the Disaster Zone
This afternoon, Rabbi Saperstein travels to the Gulf with national leaders from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities to witness the oil spill damage first hand, reach out to local leaders, and support vulnerable communities with a series of briefings,...
Gulf Update: How Can I Help?
Elisa Sunshine is a participant in the Machon Kaplan Summer Social Action Internship program, interning at the Religious Action Center. Sick and tired of sitting idly and watching our Gulf waters turn brown, wreaking havoc on human and animal...
Live Update from the Gulf: Join Us Tomorrow Afternoon
Join the RAC and our colleagues at the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program Thursday, July 1 for a direct report from the Gulf. Local faith leaders and Washington staff will provide a live update on the situation in the...
Greening Pilot Program is Officially Underway!
A few weeks ago we announced the launch of our "Greening Reform Judaism Pilot Program" in partnership with GreenFaith, and today we're happy to report that our eight New Jersey congregations are well underway to becoming the green leaders of...
Oil Spill Update: Drilling Ban Overturned
Earlier this week the District Court in New Orleans ruled to overturn the temporary moratorium on offshore drilling issued by the Obama Administration in response to the ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf. The six-month moratorium on new drilling...
Greening our Perspective
Hannah Donner is a participant in the Machon Kaplan Summer Social Action Internship program, interning at Interfaith Power and Light. Have you ever dreamed of doing something that's important to you but on a much larger scale? As a...
Gulf News Round Up: The Faith Community Responds
[Update, July 7]As Rabbi Saperstein travels to the Gulf this week with national faith leaders to witness the oil spill damage first hand and support the local community with a series of briefings, interfaith services and tours, here is a...
Talk to the Rock
This post appeared today in Ten Minutes of Torah. Sign up for Ten Minutes of Torah here. In the beginning of this week's Torah portion, Chukat, Miriam dies, leaving the people to wander without water in the wilderness. Heeding their...
President Obama and a New Direction for the U.S.
David L. Marks is the Program Director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. This piece originally appeared on COEJL's blog, To Till and To Tend.In President Obama's first speech from the Oval Office of the White House...
A Clean Air Victory
Last Thursday we celebrated a major environmental victory with the defeat of Senator Murkowski's (R-AK) Dirty Air Act Resolution on the Senate floor. 53 Senators upheld sound climate science - and affirmed the voices of millions of citizens calling for...
After 50 Days, What Can We Do About the Gulf?
In response to the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Union for Reform Judaism is partnering with the Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ) to help the people most affected by the oil spill. The JFSJ Gulf Coast Recovery Fund...
Launching the Greening Reform Judaism Pilot Program
Today I am proud to announce that the RAC and the Union are partnering with GreenFaith, a coalition that works to inspire and mobilize people of diverse faiths for environmental leadership, to launch an exciting new Pilot Program (Read the...
Turn Your Outrage Over BP's Oil Leak Into Action
Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith is a sustainability consultant, a long-time Jewish environmental activist, and a board member for Hazon and the American Friends of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership. This entry originally appeared on the Green Strides...
Clean Cars and Clean Air
Last Friday the Obama Administration released another in a series of historic clean energy policies; standing with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and leaders from the labor and environmental communities, the President called on automobile and truck makers to ramp up...
Oil Spill Update: One Month Later
One month ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast, causing 11 tragic deaths (and some incredible stories of survival) and what may be the worst environmental disaster of our time. The news from the Gulf...
Jews and Food Ethics
The following is excerpted from a sermon on Progressive Judaism and food ethics delivered by Sara Eiser, Cantorial Soloist at Congregation Shaarai Shomayim in Lancaster, PA. Learn more about the Green Table, Just Table Initiative here.Tonight, I'd like to give...
Happy Endangered Species Day
This Friday, May 21 is the fifth annual Endangered Species Day, a commemoration of our nation's biodiversity and the need to protect plants, animals, and their habitats. Endangered Species Day is celebrated from community nature centers right on up to...
The Clean Energy Race is On
This afternoon Senators Kerry (D-MA) and Lieberman (I-CT) released their long-awaited comprehensive clean energy and climate plan, the American Power Act. The nearly 1,000 page bill now goes to Senators, advocates, economists and scientists for review, and hopefully to the...
Join Us for Community Supported Agriculture 101
Our Shulchan Yarok, Shulchan Tzedek (Green Table, Just Table) Initiative on ethical eating is well underway, and later this month we're hosting our first Webinar! Join us on May 26 to learn about Community Supported Agriculture, an exciting and innovative...
Highlights from the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference
his week I had the pleasure of joining 3,000 members of the labor, business, and environmental communities for the third annual Green Jobs, Good Jobs Conference. The speakers, workshops and opportunities to connect with other clean energy advocates inspired me...
Update on the Disaster in the Gulf
The tragedy continues off the Gulf Coast as the sunken oil rig Deepwater Horizon dumps thousands of gallons of oil each day, the oil slick approaches land, and engineers continue to struggle to cut off and contain the spill. President...
Toward True Energy Independence
After a massive Earth Day rally on the Mall and high hopes for a comprehensive climate bill this week, key Senators are still negotiating and bickering behind closed doors. We are waiting for comprehensive climate legislation and stand ready to...
What Did You Do for Earth Day?
Last Thursday was the 40th annual Earth Day, and Reform Jewish communities from coast to coast are celebrating!At Temple Emeth in Teaneck, New Jersey, congregants gathered for an Environment Day focused on e-cycling (recycling electronic equipment), cleaning a local park,...
Happy Earth Day from the RAC!
Today we commemorate the 40th annual Earth Day, a cause for celebration but also a reminder that more work than ever remains to be done to protect our planet. As Rabbi Saperstein said today:The environment we take for granted will...
Moving our Planet Forward
Communities of activists and advocates are keeping busy this week in the run-up to tomorrow's commemoration of the 40th annual Earth Day. Last night I had the pleasure of hearing from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and a panel of climate...
Happy 62nd, Israel!
Today is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, which marks the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Around the world, we celebrate this holiday on the 5th of the Hebrew month of Iyar. Below, I have compiled 62...
Pop Quiz: Test Your Climate Knowledge!
Deborah Swerdlow is a senior at the University of Florida and former Machon Kaplan participant. She will be a member of the 2010-2011 class of Eisendrath Legislative Assistants. I am grateful to my mother for many things, and on Monday...
A Big Week for Environmental Health
Toxic chemical exposure and mountaintop removal coal mining are two environmental issues that don't get much press these days, but both are the subjects of positive attention after major steps forward in recent weeks. It sometimes seems that every energy...
Planting the Seeds of Hope
This piece first appeared on the Gap Adventures blog. Jennifer Kefer is an environmental consultant who provides legal and political expertise, strategic analysis, and advice to NGOs, corporations and cities on a range of projects related to climate, energy and...
What to Do on Earth Day
The 40th annual Earth Day is less than ten days away! Next week, millions of people around the world will come together on April 22 to celebrate the steps we've taken in the last 40 years to protect our environment,...
Hooray for Prop A!
Even as federal efforts to reform our transportation system remain stalled, cities are taking steps to become healthier, more livable, and more sustainable communities through transit reform. The latest victory comes from St. Louis, Missouri, where citizens voted - by...
Big Energy News
It's a "good news, bad news" week for our energy future. Today EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the finalized (and historic) "clean car standards" that have been in the works since President Obama took office....
Cast Your Vote for Kibbutz Yarok!
Camp Newman, one of the Union for Reform Judaism's 13 summer camps, has created Kibbutz Yarok, an eco-friendly Kibbutz, on its campgrounds. Kibbutz Yarok, located in Santa Rosa, California, now has the opportunity to receive a grant through Hazon -...
Food Politics
Why has obesity in the U.S. doubled in the last 25 years, and how will solving this epidemic build democracy? Those are the questions that Dr. Marion Nestle grappled with at Georgetown University this week and, contrary to popular belief,...
Happy World Water Day!
Nearly one out of six people worldwide do not have access to safe sources of drinking water. It's an alarming reality in a world with the abundance and the technology to bring clean, safe water to so many more people,...
Countdown to Earth Day
With less than 40 days until the 40th annual Earth Day, the news on climate and energy is not good: despite recent White House meetings on energy, Congress is still stuck on health care (though we are hopeful for a...
Call for Clean Energy - Today!
The Congressional calendar for the rest of the year is quickly filling up, but we have one more chance to move toward a clean energy future this year. Environmental, labor, business, and faith groups are joining together this week for...
Food News Roundup
Food: everyone is talking about it, from Katie Couric covering the livestock and fast food industries on CBS news to Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative to fight childhood obesity. And since Rabbi Yoffie announced the new Shulchan Yarok, Shulchan Tzedek...
Water, Water...Everywhere?
Clean, safe drinking water is something that many of us take for granted, but for far too many people around the world and even here in North America, it's a frighteningly scarce resource. Over one billion people lack access to...
Preserve God's Creation... by Passing Climate Legislation
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented on Monday to the office of Congressman David Dreier (R-CA) by Andrew Borer and Mark Gilbert. Both are members of Temple Beth Israel in Pomona, Calif., who attended...
Short-sighted in the Snow
If you have read the news, turned on the TV, or Googled the word 'snow' in the past two weeks, you've heard about the storms that battered the Mid Atlantic region and shut down D.C. for days. As the winter...
Green Hearts on Valentine's Day
If the historic DC snow ever ends, I might head to the movies this weekend. Now, I'm a movie buff, so there's not much I won't see. But I admit to a particular soft spot for Garry Marshall productions. He's...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
At this point, it's anyone's guess whether the Senate will take up climate and energy legislation this year: One day the President highlights clean energy in the biggest speech of the year and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) rejects "half-ass" energy...
Kudos to Yitro: Ten Interfaith Resources
Our Torah portion this week is Parshat Yitro, named for Moses' father-in-law, a man with whom the Jewish people had an exemplary interfaith relationship. In this parsha, God instructs us, "V'atem tihiyu li mamlechet cohanim v'goi kadosh - You will...
A Budget for All Climates
Follow our specially tagged blog posts throughout the week for more on how the proposed budget affects many of the priority issues for our Movement.The Obama Administration published its Fiscal Year 2011 budget request on Monday (hard to believe it's...
Tu Bishevat. Doing Something About It.
Rabbi Micah Streiffer is the Associate Rabbi at Temple Beth El in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and 3 sons. He was ordained at the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in...
Our Tu B'Shevat Responsibility
Tu B'Shevat began as a minor celebration for our natural world, evolved with the addition of a Passover-like seder in the 16th century, and is now marked by many in the mainstream Jewish community as the "Jewish Earth Day." The...
A Vision of Food Justice
What did you do to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this year? I spent the weekend with Reform congregation KAM Isaiah-Israel in Hyde Park, Chicago, learning about food. KAM, the oldest Reform congregation in the Midwest, has a strong...
No Climate Bill? No Chance!
Congress returns from its winter recess next week with a full agenda: wrapping up the health care bill, tackling job creation and enacting financial reform, not to mention gearing up for the fall 2010 election season. With so much to...
Fulfilling Our Responsibility as Inhabitants of the World
The following post is the text of a speech that was presented yesterday to staff in Senator Charles Schumer's office by Jacob Pargament, Matthew Bernstein, Daniel Pollack, and Benjamin Saltzman. All four are high school students and members of Temple...
New Year's Resolution: Action by Earth Day
We all operate on calendars and timetables, and Washington is no different. Our political leaders set deadlines constantly - health care reform by summer 2009, Recovery Act money out the door by year's end, troops out of Iraq by who...
President Shimon Peres Visits Kibbutz Lotan
Alex Cicelsky is a founder of Kibbutz Lotan in Israel. Learn more at KibbutzLotan.com. The recent President's Conference in Jerusalem opened with a video that showcased innovative research and development in the Negev and highlighted Reform Kibbutz Lotan's ecology center....
Another Outbreak - Where's the Beef?
I take for granted that the food I get at my local grocery store or restaurant is clean and safe, and that food safety professionals have made sure of this. Yet, for the 21 people infected with a potentially lethal...
RACblog Goes Meta: Our List of the Top 10 Top 10 Lists
It's the end of another (secular) year, and the end of decade as well, so of course, our inboxes and Google Readers are overflowing with "Ten 10 lists." Because we at the RAC are nothing if not "meta," we thought...
From Copenhagen to Mexico City: Building on (Partial) Success
Read more of our blog posts from and about COP 15 here.The verdict is in, and the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen was...a partial success. While some are bashing Copenhagen (and the whole UN process for addressing climate change) as...
Faith Voices from Copenhagen
Today is the final day of the UN Climate Change Conference, and there are many lessons to be learned from the event - the difficulty of international negotiations, the complexity of the climate challenge, and the deep engagement of young...
Mr. Obama Goes to Copenhagen
Tomorrow morning, President Obama will arrive in Copenhagen determined to lead the way to an international deal to confront the environmental, economic, and public health challenge of climate change. He, and the hundred or so other heads of state convening...
Hannukah lights in Copenhagen
Sybil Sanchez is the director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), one of the leading Jewish environmental organizations in the United States. This piece originally appeared in the Washington Post "On Faith" series. Read more of...
Time for Leadership to Listen to the People
Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith is a sustainability consultant, a long-time Jewish environmental activist, and a board member for Hazon and the American Friends of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership. Dr. Goldsmith will attend the United Nations Climate...
Weekly Legislative Update: Congress Votes TOMORROW on Iran Sanctions Bill!
The following update went out this afternoon as part of the RAC's Weekly Legislative Update (WLU), which is emailed to subscribers every Monday that Congress is in session. To sign up to receive the WLU in your inbox, visit rac.org/email.URGENT:...
A Great Miracle Happened Here: Addressing Climate Change While Protecting America's Poorest Families
Jennifer Kefer is Senior Climate Advisor at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), where she engages and educates a network of state groups about the need to include consumer relief in effective climate legislation. Jennifer previously served as...
Green Press Round-Up
With the UN Climate Change Conference underway in Copenhagen, the Environmental Protection Agency endangerment finding on greenhouse gas emissions, and the outline of a new Senate climate bill all happening this week, there is plenty of exciting news on the...
Update: Live from Copenhagen!
The Copenhagen talks are well underway, and we are excited to bring you a live update from the conference next Tuesday, December 15, at 3:30 p.m. EST. We hope you will join us to hear from David Waskow, Climate Change...
Copenhagen 1943 and Copenhagen UN 2009
Rabbi Warren Stone is co-chair of the National Religious Coalition on Creation Care and founding chair of the Central Conference of American Rabbis' Committee on the Environment. Rabbi Warren Stone serves as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland. He...
Give the Gift of Social Justice!
This Chanukah, give your favorite do-gooder the gift of tikkun olam. We've put together a Social Justice Chanukah Gift Guide, a collection of nine great suggestions for everyone on your holiday gift-giving list - with a social justice twist, of...
The Equation for a Healthier Planet
Megan Elsayed is the Social Action Vice President of the NFTY Northwest Region. Learn more about NFTY's activities, and read more of our blog posts from and about COP 15 here.What a fantastic first step! By involving youth, crossing generational...
Expectations Rising at Copenhagen
Arjun Mody is Assistant Director, Government Relations at ONE. He previously worked in the U.S. Senate as a senior foreign policy, energy, and environment counsel, and in the Executive Office of the President as a Presidential Management Fellow. You can...
Copenhagen - The Moment is Now
Read more of our blog posts from and about COP 15 here.It's hard to believe that such a historic day for the global movement for a sustainable future is finally here! Today, leaders from nearly 200 nations gather in Copenhagen,...
If Not Now When? Jewish Community Calls for Climate Action
In just three days, hundreds of world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference, a critical moment in the global fight for a sustainable, clean energy future. The North American Jewish community is proud to be...
Essential Preparations for Copenhagen - Offsetting My Carbon Emissions
Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith is a sustainability consultant, a long-time Jewish environmental activist, and a board member for Hazon and the American Friends of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership. Dr. Goldsmith will attend the United Nations Climate...
Building on the Environmental Momentum Following COP15
Rabbi Warren Stone serves as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland. He is representing the Reform Jewish Movement at the Copenhagen Climate Talks. This post originally appeared on the Earth Day Network Blog and is reprinted with permission....
A Greener Holiday Season
Read more of our blog posts from and about the Copenhagen Climate Talks here. One week ago, as people across the United States were preparing to enjoy a relaxing Thanksgiving, the White House was making news with an encouraging...
Food, Ethical Food
This post originally appeared at The Jew and the Carrot, a blog run by Hazon about Jews, food and contemporary issues.As Jews, we have always cared about the food that we eat. Some of us choose to embrace traditional...
Reform Representation at Copenhagen UN's COP 15
Rabbi Warren Stone serves as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland. Nationally known for his leadership on religion and the environment, Rabbi Stone is co-chair of the National Religious Coalition on Creation Care and founding chair of the Central...
Announcing the Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign!
Today we are proud to announce the launch of the Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign, a new project coordinated by the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) to encourage the Jewish community to lead the way to a more...
Beyond Pita & Falafel: Sustainable Eating in Israel
Miriam Farber is currently living in Jerusalem and studying in the Year Program at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies. She is an alumna of Eisner Camp and NFTY. To read more about Miriam's time in Israel, visit her...
Travel Justly, Travel Green
Traveling allows us to have amazing, life-altering experiences. Cultural exchange, new and bizarre foods and opportunities to better understand where you come from are just a few of the ways in which travel has enriched my life. But now, the...
In Pursuit of Climate Justice
"Tzedek, tzedek, tirdoff" - justice, justice shall you pursue. It's one of the most commonly cited phrases in Jewish social justice work; a fundamental commandment to seek a fairer, more equal world, and to do so by fair and equal...
Reflections on a Very Green Biennial
Isaac Nuell is the RAC's Conference Planner. This post was written with the help of Rachel Cohen, the RAC's Senior Legislative Assistanty on Environmental Issues.Wow - it's hard to believe Biennial is already over! After all the planning, conference...
Momentum Builds for Climate Action
Last weekend, tens of thousands of people in 181 countries came together for the "350.org International Day of Climate Action," a global wake-up call on climate change. In over 5,000 events worldwide, people of all ages joined the movement to...
Reaching the Tipping Point on Climate Change
Dr. Mirele B. Goldsmith is a sustainability consultant, a long-time Jewish environmental activist, and a board member for Hazon and the American Friends of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership. Dr. Goldsmith will attend the United Nations Climate...
A Shabbat for our Earth
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of activists, advocates, and concerned citizens around the world will come together for one, unified day of climate action - calling on our leaders to ensure a safe, healthy, sustainable future for us, our children,...
Fighting Poverty with Faith: Good Jobs, Green Jobs Launch
The following is excerpted from an email update from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs announcing the launch of Fighting Poverty With Faith: Good Jobs, Green Jobs, a week of mobilization supported by the Religious Action Center and other faith...
Poverty, the Environment, and Self-Sufficiency
Fighting Poverty with Faith's big day has arrived! The National Opening Call for the week, which featured two members of the House of Representatives as well as community leaders, took place yesterday and succeeded in exciting everybody involved with the...
Raising our Voices, One Blog Post at a Time
Today, more than 8,000 individuals and organizations in 120 countries will raise their voices together for the 2009 Blog Action Day on climate change. In what is becoming an annual tribute to the power of online media and social networking,...
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