The Jewish Command for Environmental Action

Sustaining Creation through Environmental Responsibility

 
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Key Project Players:
Temple Anshe Hesed
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES)
Allegheny College

Green Jewish or Interfaith Resources:
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL)
GreenFaith
Temple Emmanuel
Shalom Center
Hazon
Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
Washington D.C.'s Energy Department Green Faith Guide

Carbon Calculators:
An Inconvenient Truth
Native Energy
Carbon Trust
TerraPass
Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint Sources:
Carbon Trust. 2007. Carbon footprinting: an introduction for organizations. London. Accessed 2 October 2007, <http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/publications/publicationdetail.htm?productid=CTV033>.

Energy Information Administration. 2002. Updated State-level Greenhouse Gas Emission Coefficients for Electricity Generation 1998-2000. Accessed 28 September 2007, <http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oiaf/1605/cdrom/pdf/e-supdoc.pdf>.

Gies, Erica. 2006. "On your mark, offset, go!". Grist. Accessed 3 October 2007, <http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/10/10/gies/>.

The Green Matrix. 2007. Calculating carbon footprints. Accessed 28 September 2007, <http://www.thegreenmatrix.com/calculating_carbon_footprints>. (Site no longer active).

Tu B'Shvat Resources:
Bernstein, Ellen. "A History of Tu B'Shvat". In Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet, edited by Ellen Bernstein,139-142. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998.

Bernstein, Ellen. "The Tu B'Shvat Seder". In Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet, edited by Ellen Bernstein,142-150. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998.

Bernstein, Ellen and Dan Fink. "Tu B'Shvat: The Jewish New Year of the Trees". In Let the Earth Teach You Torah, edited by Ellen Bernstein and Dan Fink, 156-161. Wyncote PA: Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth, 1992.

Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL). What is Tu B'Shvat? Accessed 15 October 2007, <http://www.coejl.org/~coejlor/tubshvat/documents/tub_whatis.php>.

Elon, Ari, Naomi Mara Hyman and Arthur Waskow. "Introduction to the Tree". In Trees, Earth and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology, edited by Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman and Arthur Waskow, xv-xvi. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1999.

Waskow, Arthur. "Growing Tu B'Shvat: The Life Juice of the Tree of History". In Trees, Earth and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology, edited by Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman and Arthur Waskow, 3-21. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1999.

Research Materials: (*cited on website, others found in full-text version)
*Allen, E.A. "The Hebrew View of Nature." In Judaism and Environmental Ethics, edited by Martin D. Yaffe, 73-39. New York: Lexington, 2001.

*Bush, Rabbi John. Tu B'Shevat Seder Booklet. Temple Anshe Hesed. Received 15 December 2007.

*Cohen, Jeremy. "On Classical Judaism and Environmental Crisis." In Judaism and Environmental Ethics, edited by Martin D. Yaffe, 73-39. New York: Lexington, 2001.

Ehrenfeld, David and Joan. "Some Thoughts on Nature and Judaism". In Judaism and Environmental Ethics, edited by Martin D. Yaffe, 283-85. New York: Lexington, 2001.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). "Climate Change: Basic Information". Accessed 25 March 2008, <http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basicinfo.html#emissions>..

*Frymer-Kensky, Tivka. "Ecology in a Biblical Perspective". In Worldviews, Religion and the Environment: A Global Anthology", edited by Richard C. Foltz, 290-6. California: Wadsworth-Thomson, 2003.

GreenFaith. "Stewardship: Energy Conservation". GreenFaith: Interfaith Partners in Action for the Earth. Accessed 18 February 2008, <http://www.greenfaith.org/stewardship/energy-conservation.html>.

*Harper, Fletcher. "Religion and the Earth on the Ground: The Experience of GreenFaith in New Jersey". In Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth, edited by Laurel Kearns and Catherine Keller ,504-516. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.

*Helfand, Jonathan. "Judaism and Environmental Ethics." In Religion and Environmental Crisis, edited by Eugene C. Hargrove, 38-52. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

*Hutterman, Aloys. The Ecological Message of the Torah. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.

Kay, Jeanne. "Comments on the Unnatural Jew". In Judaism and Environmental Ethics, edited by Martin D. Yaffe, 286-88. New York: Lexington, 2001.

*Lowdermilk, Walter C. "The Eleventh Commandment". In Worldviews, Religion and the Environment: A Global Anthology, edited by Richard C. Foltz, 12-16. California: Wadsworth-Thomson, 2003.

Maimonides, M. The Guide for the Perplexed. Translated by M. Friedlander. New York: Dover, 1904.

Scwarzschild, Steven S. "The Unnatural Jew". In Worldviews, Religion and the Environment: A Global Anthology", edited by Richard C. Foltz, 296-306. California: Wadsworth-Thomson, 2003.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "Climate Change". Accessed 25 March 2008, <http://www.unep.org/Themes/climatechange/>.

*White, Lynn Jr. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis." Science 155 (1967): 1203-7. JStor (7 June 2006).

 
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