Eco-friendly aspects of the simcha can elevate a young person’s conscience

By Elyse Glickman
Published on April 18, 2013

Given that many high-profile celebrities expound on the virtues of their environmental involvements (among them, Natalie Portman and Alicia Silverstone), it is inevitable that eco-friendly activities, foods and fashion — along with a side of social justice — will appeal to a wide range of teens … and that this will get some of them seeing green for their bar or bat mitzvah.

Next mayor’s earth agenda

Published on March 28, 2013

Delivering his inaugural address on the City Hall lawn in 2005, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa challenged Angelenos to turn Los Angeles into “… the greenest big city in America.”

My Chanukah miracle

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on December 1, 2010

And on the fifth day, I learned how not to compost. It was a sunny mid-November morning when I found out that potato peels, celery tops and other vegetable pieces — in other words, most of the 7 pounds of organic matter I had been saving in my refrigerator’s crisper drawer for the past four days — were, in fact, still food.

It’s a nice day for a green wedding

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on April 10, 2008

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.

Big Sunday looks good in green

By Jay Firestone
Published on April 3, 2008

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

Water and pumpkins mark eco-friendly Sukkot

By Jane Ulman
Published on October 5, 2006

True Joy Through Water, a new outreach program created by Canfei Nesharim ("the wings of eagles"), an Orthodox environmental organization, it's designed to educate about the importance of water, its imperiled state and ways to conserve it.