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from the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership
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Happy Passover (and Easter),
Each of this year's newsletters so far marks one of the traditional Jewish New Years, in a way representing different aspects of the Heschel Center's vision of sustainability: Rosh Hashanah - the anniversary of the creation of the world; Tu Bishvat - the New Year for trees and, by extension, for the natural world; and this edition, for Pesach (Passover), traditionally the national New Year for the People of Israel.
The Heschel Center's vision of sustainability is perfectly placed to take a leading role at this juncture. The center's activities, as seen in the updates below, are working hard to achieve this goal and your support gives us added strength and motivation in these efforts.
This newsletter includes a special feature on the five Environmental Fellows graduate projects selected for special support as part of the new Environmental Leadership Action Network (ELAN). These are good examples of how the center's training and empowerment programs are translated into initiatives which are transforming Israeli society.
Read Dr. Jeremy Benstein's Pesach Commentary
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| Environmental Leadership Action Network - Special Feature |
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Coordinators of the ELAN projects
Five Environmental Fellows' initiatives have been chosen for intensive incubation and support as part of this program. They were selected from among the fourteen outstanding proposals submitted by Fellows graduates in a wide range of fields. Each project will be coordinated by one Fellow and will involve others in a cooperative effort, extending the Heschel Center's network of environmental professional leaders. The projects and coordinators:
Ecological Education Center - Urban Sustainable Agriculture in Action. Gidi Bashan (Yr. 5)
Promoting the Israeli Commons. Dr Daniel Mishori (Yr. 6)
Forum for Sustainable Economics in Israel. Hagai Kott (Yr. 6)
Greening the Building - Model for Urban Sustainability. Shimon Tzuk (Yr. 6)
Developing Planning Tools for Local Sustainability Rafi Rich (Yr. 3)
Read more about the ELAN projects
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| Heschel News |
Large turnout for 4th Annual Pratt Environmental Media Awards ceremony:
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Israelis want more done about environmental issues, according to results from the Pratt Environmental Attitudes Survey.
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Green Schools Network - Successful regional conference for Kids' Environmental Leadership groups.
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It's Our Planet - Israel's environmental education journal to enter cyberspace for Pesach.
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The Heschel Center launches "The Activism Triangle" to link social and environmental organizations in Tel-Aviv
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Consuming the World released - the latest in the Heschel Center's series of Worldwatch publications
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Women and Environmental Leadership - local sustainability empowerment course for Arab Women in the Galilee
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Sustainable urban planning course for professionals at Tel-Aviv University
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| Seeds of Sustainability |
In the last newsletter (for Tu Bishvat) we launched a new initiative to allow all of our friends and supporters to take a productive part in the Heschel Center's activities.
We present you the opportunity to plant "seeds of sustainability" in the Heschel Center's various projects or in the center itself.
Each seed costs $50 and the "planter" will be sent a virtual tree certificate to mark the contribution. The seeds can be planted in your own name or on behalf of someone else, in which case the certificate will be sent to the recipient's email address with a copy to the "planter". You are also welcome to specify a special occasion and the specific project in which the seeds are to be sown.
See a sample tree certificate
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.Plant seeds of sustainability
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Passover is also called the Festival of Liberty and the Festival of Spring, and perhaps these three names together best embody our hopes for renewal at this time: the first reflecting a national historical event, the second a universal principle of justice and the third, the time of nature's regeneration.
Wishing us all, then, a time of personal, national and universal liberation and regeneration,
David Paran
Resouce Development
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