基督教不分教派新環保運動Faith-based pro-environment movement, 甚至超越宗教不分宗教, 在今年美國全面性昇起.
非常想知道嗎那食品歐大哥, 推出新包裝之後, 廠房遷移, 明年能否大展鴻圖? 祝福他! 上帝保佑他!Faith-based pro-environment trend growing in Washington, nation
Here in Washington state, everybody's doing it: Evangelicals, Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, and Muslims. Prayer in response to the environment and the oil spill has become a form of social action for creation. If you haven't been invited to a prayer vigil in the past 100 days, perhaps you haven't checked your Facebook page or you are don't believe in having believers as friends.
This national appeal to God may have seemed like a naïve cry for help in an overwhelming situation. But the groundswell of prayer has become a collective spiritual response to a national ecological crisis.
The hundreds of thousands of hands joined together in prayer - literally from sea to shining sea - reflect a growing and united religious environmental movement that has a strong base here in Washington State through the organizations Earth Ministry and Washington Interfaith Power and Light.
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What's Challenging Now: Up-and-Coming Environmental Leaders Speak OutThu Jul 15, 2010 What are the key challenges in the environmental movement today that affect environmental leaders' work personally, the field as a whole, or will create challenges in the future? PresenTense Magazine's Environmental Steering Committee took on the challenge of composing lists of the up to 10 top issues that keep them up at night and that they work tirelessly to resolve. Read and comment with your own thoughts below!
Some of these brainstormed challenges are currently being developed into articles for PresenTense's upcoming Environmental Issue. If you would like to write on any of these topics, please
pitch PresenTense !
David Krantz, president and chairperson of the Green Zionist Alliance.
1. Financial sustenance/sustainability for green organizations.
2. Moving the environment higher up on the priority lists of individuals, corporations organizations and governments.
3. Moving beyond green consumerism to addressing lifestyle changes that can make big impacts en masse, such as reducing meat consumption, private-vehicle use and the manufacturing (and subsequent purchasing) of needless products.
4. Branching environmental stewardship out more to all groups; further mainstreaming environmentalism.
5. Charting a sustainable future.
Jonathon Feinberg, founder of The Jewish Climate Action Network (JCAN)
1. Funding from the Jewish community – the environment is a relatively new interest within the established Jewish community, and community funders tend to have long-standing specific funding interests from which they seem unwilling to deviate.
2. Lack of collaboration between environmental groups – each group believes their idea is best, regardless of what came before or what else exists.
3. Competition among environmental groups – a subpoint from the two previous points that I think deserves specific attention.
4. The Jewish-Environmental community’s relationship with Israel – This is a big topic that I think a lot of people agree needs attention.
5. The Jewish-Environmental community’s relationship with the secular environmental community
6. Media – the environmental movement, and leftist movement more generally, receives little to no media attention. For example, the G20 summit protests in Canada only received attention once police brutality and mass arrests became known; the 30,000 person leftist convergence in Detroit earlier this month, the US Social Forum, was not mentioned once on any mainstream media source. The closest we get to public attention is in the form of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh throwing accusations, or an occasional Huffington post article.
7. Disconnect between Jewish leadership and the desires of the people
8. Moving beyond the Synagogue – grassroots environmental organizing in the Jewish community seems lacking. How do we identify and attract Jews who are not already involved in the established community? Why aren’t we doing this yet? How do we start?
9. Breaking denominational lines – I’ve seen a lot of movement-based environmental organizing, but we need to work towards a future in which the ENTIRE Jewish community is motivated to protect the environment and work for justice.
10. Lack of understanding of Jewish-Environmentalism from the secular/non-Jewish community – do we need to present a clearer message to the outside world? From what points does confusion/lack of acceptance stem, or is this merely perceived from within?
Hamutal Gillo, researcher on Gender Equality Strategies in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem
1. Funding, in the Israeli context: General environmental campaigns in Israel, not in connection to Jewish values have had some success. Regarding the Jewish world, should Jewish philanthropy be funding Israel’s environment, especially through lobby & political work? (The NIF has been doing that, and also the Green Environmant Fund but not many others. popular donations have been almost exclusivey to the KKL.) or is this an issue that Israeli philanthropy “should take care of” – so to speak? thoughts, anyone?
2. Lack of collaboration between environmental groups – each group believes their idea is best, regardless of what came before or what else exists. I couldn’t agree more! I have a lot to say about this. Some suggestions too…
3. Competition among environmental groups – a subpoint from the two previous points that I think deserves specific attention. Absolutely-I am wondering if it would be right for foundations to lead a change in this and demand more collaboration and even press for merging of organizations doing similar things.
4. Israeli enviro. NGO’s relationship with the Jewish-Environmental community outside Israel: I think there is ignorance of the existence of a Jewish-Environmental community in many parts of the secular enviro. community in Israel. The Jewish-enviro. connection is not well known to the general public in Israel. Especially not in it’s activist aspect. There is huge potential for learning, sharing and collaboration in global issues – such as climate change.
5. The secular environmental community’s relationship with the Jewish-Environmental community. In Israel, the latter are somewhat marginalized. The political, secular enviro. leadership is dominant. More can be done to use the Jewish-enviro. values to include the religious population in campaigns, and to raise their awareness to the enviro.
6. Media – the environmental receives little to no media. In Israel, the environmental movement receives a little coverage, not enough.
7. Local communities are a new thing in Israeli collectivist culture. Grassroots environmental organizing is new and usually rises due to an immediate threat, many times the “community” has the lifecycle of a campaign. There is a lot of potential in the kibbutzim and moshavim-that do have existing community-life and farming, to serve as enviro. “hubs”. This is not exploited.
8. Moving beyond green consumerism to addressing lifestyle changes that can make big impacts en masse, such as eliminating or reducing meat consumption, private-vehicle use and the manufacturing (and subsequent purchasing) of needless products. Agree!
Jacob Fine, Rabbi and Assistant Director of Hillel at the University of Washington and Director of Jconnect Seattle
1. Though great strides have been made in this regard, we still need more Jewishly literate and environmentally literate individuals working on the nexus of Jewish environmental work. I believe that we are only scratching the surface to this point.
2. We still are not at a point where environmentalism in the Jewish community is accepted broadly as important for its own sake--as a Jewish value. My sense is that environmentalism is seen by many, big funders chief among them, as significant as a tool towards "more important" goals such as Jewish identity building, continuity, etc.
3. The Jewish environmental movement is rather parochial in its audience. We are largely serving and working with Jews.
4. We need to make sure that the movement does not remain elitist and need to focus more on environmental justice.
5. As a people that is materially well-off, the tough questions around consumerism and materialism are touchy subjects and very much need to be had.
6. The majority of Jews are going to continue to live in the burbs and suburbs--we need to find ways to make sure that these populations are connecting deeply to the natural world--especially the places where they live.
7. The growing obsession with fear of eating bugs in the orthodox community has far reaching implications around general perception of the status of the natural world.
Tess Lehrich, founder of From Garbage to Garden
1. Being taken seriously by those outside of the environmental field
2. Lack of financial stability and career paths
3. Green Washing as a danger to the legitimacy of eco-businesses
4. Reaching out to those who are mildly interested, recognizing potential in individual actions, encouraging simple lifestyle changes with large impact value (many people who would want to make small changes find it challenging to do so, unsupported, or lacking a network to provide outlets... where to buy local food, how to investigate where it is coming from, where to throw organic waste for those who can not compost at home, alternative transportation methods, etc.)
5. Large-scale action that needs to be taken, by municipalities and governments, which is usually seen as low-priority and therefore slow moving
6. Establishing profitable, sustainable businesses that can be independently operated without the need for constant fundraising
7. Consumerism, Capitalism, and the fact that environmental issues are often brushed aside in the pursuit of profit
Simcha Schwartz, Associate Director of the Jewish Farm School
1. Practice what we preach: especially finding, living and working in places that are nurturing in the most holistic way.
2. This land, that land, our land: Jewish Americans environmental relationship with the land of Israel and the land of America
3. Nature connection and renewing our relationship to land through native eyes: i.e connecting to land in a ritualistic manner
4. Providing excellent people with full time work rather than seasonal jobs.
5. Funding for operations
6. Competition with funding
7. Land availability and funding for small and large homesteads in the U.S. and Israel
8. A productive connection and network of interfaith environmentalists
9. Mobilization on capital hill and in the Kinesset
10. Lack of specializations. Lot of people have a broad education around environmentalism
Jeff Kasowitz, Director at City Year and co-founder of Attar
1. The issue of environmental unsustainability is really one of disconnection. When we feel disconnected to community, place, and faith, we are less likely to care for our surroundings and one another. Solutions that enable such connections will help us tackle our environmental challenges.
2. The Jewish environmental movement has gained great momentum in the past several years. We now have a question of how to bring its efforts to scale and develop and share programs with those who are not immediately or naturally inclined to its message.
3. The question of scale alos needs to be thought of in terms of non-Jewish communities. How can Jews model what it means to live sustainably and how can we work with other communities, faith-based and otherwise, outside of our tradition to tackle key environmental problems.
Beth Schuman, teacher at the Jewish Community Center in Berkeley, CA
1. Financial instability and lack of jobs in the field. People are leaving this field in order to pursue more 'practical' professions because jewish environmentalism has a hard time supporting people financially. It is not recognized as a career path and there are not all that many opportunities.
2. Fear of the environment and the natural world. In the field of environmental education, the adults involved are often freaked out by nature, thinking it's dirty and disgusting and terrifying and pass these views along to children.
3. Lack of actual real fundamental change. Time is running out and we need practical solutions- fast- what we seem to have is an overly idealistic and priviledged movement and not real change. There are good ideas but we do not implement them widely. As the author daniel quinn might say: "Sticks in a river will not stop a flood." We need to change the current the flow of the river itself. Right now we have lots of sticks.
4. The question of ideology without greenwashing: Does Judaism really and truly have ecological values or not? What does the text really say? We know what we want it to say and we can find lots of examples- but fundamentally is Judaism green...?
What are the key challenges in the environmental movement today that affect environmental leaders' work personally, the field as a whole, or will create challenges in the future? PresenTense Magazine's Environmental Steering Committee took on the challenge of composing lists of the up to 10 top issues that keep them up at night and that they work tirelessly to resolve. Read and comment with your own thoughts below!
Some of these brainstormed challenges are currently being developed into articles for PresenTense's upcoming Environmental Issue. If you would like to write on any of these topics, please
pitch PresenTense !
David Krantz, president and chairperson of the Green Zionist Alliance.
1. Financial sustenance/sustainability for green organizations.
2. Moving the environment higher up on the priority lists of individuals, corporations organizations and governments.
3. Moving beyond green consumerism to addressing lifestyle changes that can make big impacts en masse, such as reducing meat consumption, private-vehicle use and the manufacturing (and subsequent purchasing) of needless products.
4. Branching environmental stewardship out more to all groups; further mainstreaming environmentalism.
5. Charting a sustainable future.
Jonathon Feinberg, founder of The Jewish Climate Action Network (JCAN)
1. Funding from the Jewish community – the environment is a relatively new interest within the established Jewish community, and community funders tend to have long-standing specific funding interests from which they seem unwilling to deviate.
2. Lack of collaboration between environmental groups – each group believes their idea is best, regardless of what came before or what else exists.
3. Competition among environmental groups – a subpoint from the two previous points that I think deserves specific attention.
4. The Jewish-Environmental community’s relationship with Israel – This is a big topic that I think a lot of people agree needs attention.
5. The Jewish-Environmental community’s relationship with the secular environmental community
6. Media – the environmental movement, and leftist movement more generally, receives little to no media attention. For example, the G20 summit protests in Canada only received attention once police brutality and mass arrests became known; the 30,000 person leftist convergence in Detroit earlier this month, the US Social Forum, was not mentioned once on any mainstream media source. The closest we get to public attention is in the form of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh throwing accusations, or an occasional Huffington post article.
7. Disconnect between Jewish leadership and the desires of the people
8. Moving beyond the Synagogue – grassroots environmental organizing in the Jewish community seems lacking. How do we identify and attract Jews who are not already involved in the established community? Why aren’t we doing this yet? How do we start?
9. Breaking denominational lines – I’ve seen a lot of movement-based environmental organizing, but we need to work towards a future in which the ENTIRE Jewish community is motivated to protect the environment and work for justice.
10. Lack of understanding of Jewish-Environmentalism from the secular/non-Jewish community – do we need to present a clearer message to the outside world? From what points does confusion/lack of acceptance stem, or is this merely perceived from within?
Hamutal Gillo, researcher on Gender Equality Strategies in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem
1. Funding, in the Israeli context: General environmental campaigns in Israel, not in connection to Jewish values have had some success. Regarding the Jewish world, should Jewish philanthropy be funding Israel’s environment, especially through lobby & political work? (The NIF has been doing that, and also the Green Environmant Fund but not many others. popular donations have been almost exclusivey to the KKL.) or is this an issue that Israeli philanthropy “should take care of” – so to speak? thoughts, anyone?
2. Lack of collaboration between environmental groups – each group believes their idea is best, regardless of what came before or what else exists. I couldn’t agree more! I have a lot to say about this. Some suggestions too…
3. Competition among environmental groups – a subpoint from the two previous points that I think deserves specific attention. Absolutely-I am wondering if it would be right for foundations to lead a change in this and demand more collaboration and even press for merging of organizations doing similar things.
4. Israeli enviro. NGO’s relationship with the Jewish-Environmental community outside Israel: I think there is ignorance of the existence of a Jewish-Environmental community in many parts of the secular enviro. community in Israel. The Jewish-enviro. connection is not well known to the general public in Israel. Especially not in it’s activist aspect. There is huge potential for learning, sharing and collaboration in global issues – such as climate change.
5. The secular environmental community’s relationship with the Jewish-Environmental community. In Israel, the latter are somewhat marginalized. The political, secular enviro. leadership is dominant. More can be done to use the Jewish-enviro. values to include the religious population in campaigns, and to raise their awareness to the enviro.
6. Media – the environmental receives little to no media. In Israel, the environmental movement receives a little coverage, not enough.
7. Local communities are a new thing in Israeli collectivist culture. Grassroots environmental organizing is new and usually rises due to an immediate threat, many times the “community” has the lifecycle of a campaign. There is a lot of potential in the kibbutzim and moshavim-that do have existing community-life and farming, to serve as enviro. “hubs”. This is not exploited.
8. Moving beyond green consumerism to addressing lifestyle changes that can make big impacts en masse, such as eliminating or reducing meat consumption, private-vehicle use and the manufacturing (and subsequent purchasing) of needless products. Agree!
Jacob Fine, Rabbi and Assistant Director of Hillel at the University of Washington and Director of Jconnect Seattle
1. Though great strides have been made in this regard, we still need more Jewishly literate and environmentally literate individuals working on the nexus of Jewish environmental work. I believe that we are only scratching the surface to this point.
2. We still are not at a point where environmentalism in the Jewish community is accepted broadly as important for its own sake--as a Jewish value. My sense is that environmentalism is seen by many, big funders chief among them, as significant as a tool towards "more important" goals such as Jewish identity building, continuity, etc.
3. The Jewish environmental movement is rather parochial in its audience. We are largely serving and working with Jews.
4. We need to make sure that the movement does not remain elitist and need to focus more on environmental justice.
5. As a people that is materially well-off, the tough questions around consumerism and materialism are touchy subjects and very much need to be had.
6. The majority of Jews are going to continue to live in the burbs and suburbs--we need to find ways to make sure that these populations are connecting deeply to the natural world--especially the places where they live.
7. The growing obsession with fear of eating bugs in the orthodox community has far reaching implications around general perception of the status of the natural world.
Tess Lehrich, founder of From Garbage to Garden
1. Being taken seriously by those outside of the environmental field
2. Lack of financial stability and career paths
3. Green Washing as a danger to the legitimacy of eco-businesses
4. Reaching out to those who are mildly interested, recognizing potential in individual actions, encouraging simple lifestyle changes with large impact value (many people who would want to make small changes find it challenging to do so, unsupported, or lacking a network to provide outlets... where to buy local food, how to investigate where it is coming from, where to throw organic waste for those who can not compost at home, alternative transportation methods, etc.)
5. Large-scale action that needs to be taken, by municipalities and governments, which is usually seen as low-priority and therefore slow moving
6. Establishing profitable, sustainable businesses that can be independently operated without the need for constant fundraising
7. Consumerism, Capitalism, and the fact that environmental issues are often brushed aside in the pursuit of profit
Simcha Schwartz, Associate Director of the Jewish Farm School
1. Practice what we preach: especially finding, living and working in places that are nurturing in the most holistic way.
2. This land, that land, our land: Jewish Americans environmental relationship with the land of Israel and the land of America
3. Nature connection and renewing our relationship to land through native eyes: i.e connecting to land in a ritualistic manner
4. Providing excellent people with full time work rather than seasonal jobs.
5. Funding for operations
6. Competition with funding
7. Land availability and funding for small and large homesteads in the U.S. and Israel
8. A productive connection and network of interfaith environmentalists
9. Mobilization on capital hill and in the Kinesset
10. Lack of specializations. Lot of people have a broad education around environmentalism
Jeff Kasowitz, Director at City Year and co-founder of Attar
1. The issue of environmental unsustainability is really one of disconnection. When we feel disconnected to community, place, and faith, we are less likely to care for our surroundings and one another. Solutions that enable such connections will help us tackle our environmental challenges.
2. The Jewish environmental movement has gained great momentum in the past several years. We now have a question of how to bring its efforts to scale and develop and share programs with those who are not immediately or naturally inclined to its message.
3. The question of scale alos needs to be thought of in terms of non-Jewish communities. How can Jews model what it means to live sustainably and how can we work with other communities, faith-based and otherwise, outside of our tradition to tackle key environmental problems.
Beth Schuman, teacher at the Jewish Community Center in Berkeley, CA
1. Financial instability and lack of jobs in the field. People are leaving this field in order to pursue more 'practical' professions because jewish environmentalism has a hard time supporting people financially. It is not recognized as a career path and there are not all that many opportunities.
2. Fear of the environment and the natural world. In the field of environmental education, the adults involved are often freaked out by nature, thinking it's dirty and disgusting and terrifying and pass these views along to children.
3. Lack of actual real fundamental change. Time is running out and we need practical solutions- fast- what we seem to have is an overly idealistic and priviledged movement and not real change. There are good ideas but we do not implement them widely. As the author daniel quinn might say: "Sticks in a river will not stop a flood." We need to change the current the flow of the river itself. Right now we have lots of sticks.
4. The question of ideology without greenwashing: Does Judaism really and truly have ecological values or not? What does the text really say? We know what we want it to say and we can find lots of examples- but fundamentally is Judaism green...?
Some of these brainstormed challenges are currently being developed into articles for PresenTense's upcoming Environmental Issue. If you would like to write on any of these topics, please
pitch PresenTense !
David Krantz, president and chairperson of the Green Zionist Alliance.
1. Financial sustenance/sustainability for green organizations.
2. Moving the environment higher up on the priority lists of individuals, corporations organizations and governments.
3. Moving beyond green consumerism to addressing lifestyle changes that can make big impacts en masse, such as reducing meat consumption, private-vehicle use and the manufacturing (and subsequent purchasing) of needless products.
4. Branching environmental stewardship out more to all groups; further mainstreaming environmentalism.
5. Charting a sustainable future.
Jonathon Feinberg, founder of The Jewish Climate Action Network (JCAN)
1. Funding from the Jewish community – the environment is a relatively new interest within the established Jewish community, and community funders tend to have long-standing specific funding interests from which they seem unwilling to deviate.
2. Lack of collaboration between environmental groups – each group believes their idea is best, regardless of what came before or what else exists.
3. Competition among environmental groups – a subpoint from the two previous points that I think deserves specific attention.
4. The Jewish-Environmental community’s relationship with Israel – This is a big topic that I think a lot of people agree needs attention.
5. The Jewish-Environmental community’s relationship with the secular environmental community
6. Media – the environmental movement, and leftist movement more generally, receives little to no media attention. For example, the G20 summit protests in Canada only received attention once police brutality and mass arrests became known; the 30,000 person leftist convergence in Detroit earlier this month, the US Social Forum, was not mentioned once on any mainstream media source. The closest we get to public attention is in the form of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh throwing accusations, or an occasional Huffington post article.
7. Disconnect between Jewish leadership and the desires of the people
8. Moving beyond the Synagogue – grassroots environmental organizing in the Jewish community seems lacking. How do we identify and attract Jews who are not already involved in the established community? Why aren’t we doing this yet? How do we start?
9. Breaking denominational lines – I’ve seen a lot of movement-based environmental organizing, but we need to work towards a future in which the ENTIRE Jewish community is motivated to protect the environment and work for justice.
10. Lack of understanding of Jewish-Environmentalism from the secular/non-Jewish community – do we need to present a clearer message to the outside world? From what points does confusion/lack of acceptance stem, or is this merely perceived from within?
Hamutal Gillo, researcher on Gender Equality Strategies in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem
1. Funding, in the Israeli context: General environmental campaigns in Israel, not in connection to Jewish values have had some success. Regarding the Jewish world, should Jewish philanthropy be funding Israel’s environment, especially through lobby & political work? (The NIF has been doing that, and also the Green Environmant Fund but not many others. popular donations have been almost exclusivey to the KKL.) or is this an issue that Israeli philanthropy “should take care of” – so to speak? thoughts, anyone?
2. Lack of collaboration between environmental groups – each group believes their idea is best, regardless of what came before or what else exists. I couldn’t agree more! I have a lot to say about this. Some suggestions too…
3. Competition among environmental groups – a subpoint from the two previous points that I think deserves specific attention. Absolutely-I am wondering if it would be right for foundations to lead a change in this and demand more collaboration and even press for merging of organizations doing similar things.
4. Israeli enviro. NGO’s relationship with the Jewish-Environmental community outside Israel: I think there is ignorance of the existence of a Jewish-Environmental community in many parts of the secular enviro. community in Israel. The Jewish-enviro. connection is not well known to the general public in Israel. Especially not in it’s activist aspect. There is huge potential for learning, sharing and collaboration in global issues – such as climate change.
5. The secular environmental community’s relationship with the Jewish-Environmental community. In Israel, the latter are somewhat marginalized. The political, secular enviro. leadership is dominant. More can be done to use the Jewish-enviro. values to include the religious population in campaigns, and to raise their awareness to the enviro.
6. Media – the environmental receives little to no media. In Israel, the environmental movement receives a little coverage, not enough.
7. Local communities are a new thing in Israeli collectivist culture. Grassroots environmental organizing is new and usually rises due to an immediate threat, many times the “community” has the lifecycle of a campaign. There is a lot of potential in the kibbutzim and moshavim-that do have existing community-life and farming, to serve as enviro. “hubs”. This is not exploited.
8. Moving beyond green consumerism to addressing lifestyle changes that can make big impacts en masse, such as eliminating or reducing meat consumption, private-vehicle use and the manufacturing (and subsequent purchasing) of needless products. Agree!
Jacob Fine, Rabbi and Assistant Director of Hillel at the University of Washington and Director of Jconnect Seattle
1. Though great strides have been made in this regard, we still need more Jewishly literate and environmentally literate individuals working on the nexus of Jewish environmental work. I believe that we are only scratching the surface to this point.
2. We still are not at a point where environmentalism in the Jewish community is accepted broadly as important for its own sake--as a Jewish value. My sense is that environmentalism is seen by many, big funders chief among them, as significant as a tool towards "more important" goals such as Jewish identity building, continuity, etc.
3. The Jewish environmental movement is rather parochial in its audience. We are largely serving and working with Jews.
4. We need to make sure that the movement does not remain elitist and need to focus more on environmental justice.
5. As a people that is materially well-off, the tough questions around consumerism and materialism are touchy subjects and very much need to be had.
6. The majority of Jews are going to continue to live in the burbs and suburbs--we need to find ways to make sure that these populations are connecting deeply to the natural world--especially the places where they live.
7. The growing obsession with fear of eating bugs in the orthodox community has far reaching implications around general perception of the status of the natural world.
Tess Lehrich, founder of From Garbage to Garden
1. Being taken seriously by those outside of the environmental field
2. Lack of financial stability and career paths
3. Green Washing as a danger to the legitimacy of eco-businesses
4. Reaching out to those who are mildly interested, recognizing potential in individual actions, encouraging simple lifestyle changes with large impact value (many people who would want to make small changes find it challenging to do so, unsupported, or lacking a network to provide outlets... where to buy local food, how to investigate where it is coming from, where to throw organic waste for those who can not compost at home, alternative transportation methods, etc.)
5. Large-scale action that needs to be taken, by municipalities and governments, which is usually seen as low-priority and therefore slow moving
6. Establishing profitable, sustainable businesses that can be independently operated without the need for constant fundraising
7. Consumerism, Capitalism, and the fact that environmental issues are often brushed aside in the pursuit of profit
Simcha Schwartz, Associate Director of the Jewish Farm School
1. Practice what we preach: especially finding, living and working in places that are nurturing in the most holistic way.
2. This land, that land, our land: Jewish Americans environmental relationship with the land of Israel and the land of America
3. Nature connection and renewing our relationship to land through native eyes: i.e connecting to land in a ritualistic manner
4. Providing excellent people with full time work rather than seasonal jobs.
5. Funding for operations
6. Competition with funding
7. Land availability and funding for small and large homesteads in the U.S. and Israel
8. A productive connection and network of interfaith environmentalists
9. Mobilization on capital hill and in the Kinesset
10. Lack of specializations. Lot of people have a broad education around environmentalism
Jeff Kasowitz, Director at City Year and co-founder of Attar
1. The issue of environmental unsustainability is really one of disconnection. When we feel disconnected to community, place, and faith, we are less likely to care for our surroundings and one another. Solutions that enable such connections will help us tackle our environmental challenges.
2. The Jewish environmental movement has gained great momentum in the past several years. We now have a question of how to bring its efforts to scale and develop and share programs with those who are not immediately or naturally inclined to its message.
3. The question of scale alos needs to be thought of in terms of non-Jewish communities. How can Jews model what it means to live sustainably and how can we work with other communities, faith-based and otherwise, outside of our tradition to tackle key environmental problems.
Beth Schuman, teacher at the Jewish Community Center in Berkeley, CA
1. Financial instability and lack of jobs in the field. People are leaving this field in order to pursue more 'practical' professions because jewish environmentalism has a hard time supporting people financially. It is not recognized as a career path and there are not all that many opportunities.
2. Fear of the environment and the natural world. In the field of environmental education, the adults involved are often freaked out by nature, thinking it's dirty and disgusting and terrifying and pass these views along to children.
3. Lack of actual real fundamental change. Time is running out and we need practical solutions- fast- what we seem to have is an overly idealistic and priviledged movement and not real change. There are good ideas but we do not implement them widely. As the author daniel quinn might say: "Sticks in a river will not stop a flood." We need to change the current the flow of the river itself. Right now we have lots of sticks.
4. The question of ideology without greenwashing: Does Judaism really and truly have ecological values or not? What does the text really say? We know what we want it to say and we can find lots of examples- but fundamentally is Judaism green...?
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