Blowing the Shofar for the Environment
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Marc Katz is a Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center. He is a graduate of Tufts University. |
This week, Grist Magazine conducted an interesting interview with Reform Rabbi Warren Stone of Temple Emanuel in Kensington MD about the role of the Jewish community in the modern environmental movement.
Rabbi Stone, who serves as the national environmental chair for the Central Conference of American Rabbis and blew the Shofar at the climate-change talks in Kyoto in 1997, talked about the need to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards and linked environmental activism to the Jewish Tradition.
To read the full transcript of the interview click here.
To read a follow up transcript of a more recent Q&A session click here.