Shomrei Adamah is a new program presented in collaboration with a multitude of people and groups with the stated purpose, "Exploring our responsibility to care for the earth during the festival of Sukkot." Enjoy some photos from the various presentations and then explore the resources curated here for your review and as a historical record of this important program. Take your time, this will remain here for your exploration and edification whenever it is most convenient for you.
Our program was introduced and actually began with Rabbi Shire's Yom Kippur sermon on Saturday, October 12. 
After building and decorating the Sukkah on Wednesday, October 16, our friends from Church of the Covenant with
​Rev. Rob Mark offered a program on titled "Mapping Gas Leaks in Back Bay" on Thursday, October 17. Handouts are available from that program.
​Click on the images below to download PDF documents for review.

​At Central Reform Temple shabbat service on Friday, October 18 was another event in the program welcoming Rabbi Jonathan Singer, Emeritus Rabbi Temple Emmanuel, San Francisco. Rabbi Singer's sermon title was "The Sukkah as a Reminder of the Lessons of Gan Eden - You Shall Tend the Garden."
Sunday morning at Emmanuel Church, The Rev. Pam Werntz preached on the topic, "... our sacred duty at guardians of the earth."


​A Blessing for Our Earth that It May Be Sustained 
 
​We have inherited a habitable planet for our lives and for those lives that follow us, for all types of creatures to thrive and to flourish, and with a responsibility to be Shomrei Adamah, preservers of our sacred place and preservers of the planet and its creation. We need to reflect daily on the gifts we have received and to avoid the tragedy of the destroyed world of Noah. On this day of Sukkot, let us bring to mind our sister the earth, our neighbors in endangered environments, and all living beings sharing this fragile earth with us. Let us all work on our environment this year and all years to come. 
And let us say Amen.

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Following the morning service at Emmanuel Church the afternoon program began, "Climate Change and Electric Power",   presented by Gina Copland-Newfield, Managing Director at Sunstone Strategies.


After the presentation a prayer was offered in the Sukkah by Jennifer Caplan from Central Reform Temple of Boston.
On Sunday evening a group gathered to discuss the movie: David Attenborough - A Life on Our Planet. The discussion was facilitated by Director of the Massachusetts Sierra Club, Vicash Mohanka. This film is available on Netflix.
On Monday, October 21, Audrey Schulman, co-founder of HEET discussed current projects and potential. 
Many thanks to all our presenters, preachers, sukkah builders and decorators, those who attended and everyone who worked so hard to make this program a reality during Sukkot. The program was presented by Emmanuel Center, a joint project of Central Reform Temple of Boston and Emmanuel Church.  Below are a few more resources.