Climate Action -
Preserving Our Environment
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Temple member Jackie Royce is our very own life-long climate activist. Her program on Climate Action in our Picking From Our Garden series gave us insight into what started her passion for preserving our environment and what still motivates her to call us all to action now more than ever.
Links to organizations and initiatives are listed below. Find out what you can do to become a climate activist. It's up to all of us and time is running out. |
Need help figuring out how to designate how "green" your energy is that you use in your home or business? Send and email to Jackie at climateaction@centralreformtemple.org to make an appointment to discuss how you can make simple changes that puts Climate Action at the top of your priorities. |
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Jewish Climate Action Network (JCAN)
Mobilizing communities to take leadership in bold climate campaigns through education and reducing carbon footprints”, JCAN ‘[s]ounds out an urgent and visionary Jewish voice on the crisis of climate change’. JCAN’s programming and advocacy for the environment offers opportunities for CRT volunteers to get involved. Visit jewishclimate.org |
DAYENU A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Dayenu is a movement of American Jews confronting the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action. We care deeply about equity and justice in our world and about the future we create for our children and future generations. We believe that together, drawing from our Jewish tradition, experience, and faith, we have the power to create real and lasting change.
Visit dayenu.org |
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Water Goat Project |
Life History of Rabbi Arthur Waskow |
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In 2019-2020, with the help of a state earmark, the Muddy Water Initiative researched, designed, and permitted a device called the WATERGOAT, a stormwater trash and debris boom that was deployed across the Muddy River at Ipswich Street in Boston on August 5, 2020
Visit muddywaterinitiative.org/watergoat 
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph. D., founded (in 1983) and directs The Shalom Center, a prophetic voice in Jewish, multi religious, and American life that brings Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to bear on seeking peace, pursuing justice, healing the earth, and celebrating community.
Learn more at: theshalomcenter.org/life-history-rabbi-arthur-waskow |
For decades, a 24-acre forest, known locally as Crane Ledge Woods and designated as an urban wild, has been inaccessible and mostly unknown to the surrounding neighborhoods of southwest Boston - Hyde Park, Roslindale and Mattapan. Now a multinational property company intends to construct 10 buildings containing 270 rental units, 415 parking spaces and several roads on this land. From a beautiful green space of crucial wildlife habitats - shady forest, flower-filled meadows, rocky alcoves and vernal pools - the proposed project would turn Crane Ledge Woods into an immense urban heat island of impervious asphalt and concrete. Visit savecraneledgewoods.org
