#Reflect4Rosh is back and bigger and better than ever before! This year, we’re reflecting everyday from Tisha B’Av (Thursday, July 30th) to Rosh Hashanah - creating a 7-week spiritual journey to get us ready for the High Holidays! Follow along each week on our Instagram and Facebook, and check our Instagram Story every weekday at noon for a new prompt or activity!
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Week 1: Malchut
Wednesday, August 5th - Climate Justice
Check out these organizations for some enlightenment and inspiration:
Listen to a podcast about climate change!
NPR Listen: Here's how you can help combat climate change (NPR Listen)
“The America Adapts podcast explores the challenges presented by adapting to climate change, the global movement that has begun to drive change, and the approaches that are already working.“
This BBC podcast looks at our literal effect on the environment and how the environment reacts to our contemporary existence. In the podcast, everything from the environmental cost of golf courses to climate change's effect on reproductive health is covered. It's very broad, and very informative.
Hosted by WWF-Australia's Conservation Direction, Dr. Gilly Llewellyn, this three series podcast includes conversations with business, government and community experts. The dialog serves as an effort to explore how climate change impacts are affecting South East Asia and the Pacific region. Though it's largely looking at what role Australia can take, it's educationally relevant for people in the US, too.
Or, pick up one of these reads!
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History by Ted Steinberg
"Down to Earth is a history of North America from an environmental perspective. It's an easy read, and very interesting. One chapter explains how we used to know where our food came from, but eventually we pushed agriculture out to the sidelines of our cities, causing many other problems. Down to Earth made me realize that this country was founded on exploitation and that everything we do has an impact." —Natalie Blackwelder, commissioner of sustainability, Santa Barbara City College
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
"This book offers specific, science-based predictions about the effects of unchecked global warming. It scared me silly, and it inspired me to reflect and act." —Gregg Long, high school English teacher, Illinois
Favorite quote: It is worse, much worse, than you think.