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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Balancing resources and lives -- being Jewish and 'green'

By Amy Hirshberg Lederman

Judaism has a lot to say about how to create a balance between using the resources we have and abusing or destroying them.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Israel building its first eco-friendly town

By David Shamah, Israel21c

A Mount Gilboa town is set to be the first planned, eco-friendly community in Israel, with infrastructure and services designed not just to encourage, but to actually enforce environmentally responsible behavior.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Teen's green book for kids hits stores

By Rachel Heller

It's never too early to start educating kids about the environment, says Alison Hestrin Lerner -- so the Harvard-Westlake high school senior in September published a children's book, "The Green Street Kids: The Earth Warriors," targeting future "green" advocates aged four and up.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Menorah lights hope for second oil miracle

By Tom Tugend

From Iran to Venezuela, petrodictators are using billions of our dollars to fund terrorism and propaganda against the United States and Israel, noted Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Arava spills on solutions to L.A. water shortage

By Lilly Fowler

A recent conference at UCLA's School of Law, "Transboundary Environmental Management in the Arava and Beyond," proposed that Los Angeles might gain some ground regarding its often-contentious water policies if the city turned to Israel's example.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

The Dead Sea is dying and it's a 'man-made disaster' [VIDEO]

By Uriel Heilman

The Dead Sea's rapid disappearance has become a grave concern for environmentalists, industries that profit from the sea and Israel's tourism sector

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Red-Dead canal idea stirs controversy

By Dina Kraft

The World Bank is conducting a $14 million study of a plan to build a canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. Environmentalists say the canal idea is a risky proposition to save the Dead Sea, which is rapidly shrinking.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

OPINION: Save the Dead Sea by restoring the Jordan River, not by building a canal to the Red Sea

By Gidon Bromberg

The way to save the Dead Sea is by restoring freshwater flow from a rehabilitated Jordan River, not building an ecologically risky channel from the Red Sea

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Israel invests in clean tech as energy crunch looms

By Dina Kraft

Industry observers say more aggressive government policies, such as underwriting renewable energy initiatives and granting more land for power plants, are needed to bolster the development of alternative energy.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

We need public transit—why can’t we get it?

By Robert B. Reich

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

VIDEO: World’s first operating thermal energy field opens in Israel

Israeli companies BrightSource Energy and LUZ II have created a solar power development center -- the word's first, they say. Here is the promo video.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Orthodox schools share concern for greener world

By Tamar Sofer

Now that saving the environment has become more mainstream, it has also become more acceptable in Orthodox schools

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Sinai Temple puts its food where its ‘moral diet’ is

By Jane Ulman

Farmer Phil McGrath had just made his inaugural delivery of 25 boxes of fresh, organically grown fruits and vegetables to Sinai Temple, where organizers of the synagogue's new CSA (community supported agriculture) venture stood admiring and even sampling the boxes' contents.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

It’s a nice day for a green wedding

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal

With our country's growing concern about the environment, many couples are choosing to have eco-friendly weddings. Jewish brides and grooms-to-be in the Southland are no exception.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

On the third night, the seder went green

By Amy Klein

Passover is also called the "Holiday of Spring," a time when green symbolizes new life. The color also represents all things eco-friendly, which serves as the inspiration for this year's Workmen's Circle community seder.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

No food will be wasted if Joseph Gitler has his way

By Orit Arfa

Rescuing excess food from Israeli corporate cafeterias on a daily basis is just one of the projects Joseph Gitler conceived about five and a half years ago when, as a new immigrant to Israel, he decided he must do something about the disturbing reports of poverty in Israel.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Recycling on the fashion runway

By Meredith Price Levitt

Thursday, April 3, 2008

What really happens to all those plastic bags?

By Jane Ulman

The problem of plastic grocery bags is explored.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Green endowments mean big returns for nonprofit

By Rabbi Daniel Greyber

Two years ago, Camp Ramah in California embarked upon a major solar energy project, effectively becoming the first Jewish overnight camp west of the Mississippi to adopt greener energy options. With the installation of a solar energy system atop the dining hall of our 75-acre Ojai campgrounds, Ramah has become a leader in the Jewish community when it comes to reducing environmental pollution and dependence on foreign oil. The system purchased by Ramah is designed to reduce toxic emissions by approximately 4.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide, 11,000 pounds of nitrous oxide and 35,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide over the life of the system.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Big Sunday looks good in green

By Jay Firestone

Environmentalism may be trendy, but expensive hybrid cars and solar paneling aren't the only ways of being fashionably green.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Books: Bird-watching and ‘the Jewish question’

By Jonathan Rosen

No doubt because I once worked at a Jewish newspaper and have written a novel about a woman rabbi -- not to mention a work of nonfiction called "The Talmud and the Internet" -- I am sometimes asked if my new book about bird-watching, "The Life of the Skies," is a Jewish book.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

L.A. displays eco efforts to Israeli delegation

By Ayala Or-el

Gil Yaakov and Sagit Rogenstein arrived in Los Angeles on March 2 to address an awakening among American Jews to the environmental threats to Israel. The two were among a group of 18 academics, environmentalists and politicians participating in the Friends of Israel's Environment exchange program. The goal of the exchange, which is sponsored by the Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, is to share solutions for environmental problems that plague both cities, such as air pollution, wastewater treatment, recycling and planning green spaces.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

The poisoning of Beverly Hills High

By Amy Klein

Joy Horowitz's "Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School" (Viking) is a dense 350-page book detailing a four-year fight between 1,000 litigants who claimed oil wells at the school caused diseases, such as cancer, and defendants -- including the oil companies, the city of Beverly Hills and school officials -- who said there had been no harmful effects from the (profitable) derricks.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Take Tu B’Shevat to heart and start healing nature

By Andy Lipkis

These are the times for which Tu B'Shevat was created. The rabbis who envisioned this holiday were prophetic: They knew we would need to be reminded on a regular basis about howimportant trees are to our lives. And trees have never been more important to our survival than they are today.