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Environmental Justice

Tisha B’Av In a Time of Climate Change

‘For These Things Do I Weep’ Adamah takes its name from the Hebrew word for earth — and from the relationship at the center of the Torah’s second creation story: Adam, the human being, formed…
Categories: Climate Action, Environmental Justice, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual

Teva in a Box

Bring participants to the intersection of Judaism and sustainability for a small taste of Teva’s experiential education curriculum. Click on any of the below to view and download PDF instructions for these activities Eco Spa…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Group-building, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability
Tags: arts & crafts, DIY, farm and garden, Teva

Updated Shmita Sourcebook

The Hazon Shmita Sourcebook presents a guided exploration of the history, concepts, and practices of Shmita, from debt forgiveness to agricultural rest, economic adjustment to charitable giving. The updated sourcebook explores texts and commentaries that…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Shmita, , Sustainability
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, High School, Young Adults

Blessing Our Food Waste

Through the practice of a food waste ritual, we can find deep lessons in how we gather, cook, and scrap food. We visually express those lessons into a “visual blessing” using actual food scraps and…
Categories: Jewish Food Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability
Tags: waste
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults, Youth

Recycling Toolkit

Categories: Environmental Justice, Sustainability
Tags: Adult learning, community

Faith is Green

Jewish Life & Planet Earth Hazon partnered with EarthX to produce episodes on Jewish environmentalism for the Faith is Green series on EarthxTV. This brand new original series details how we can all strive to create…
Categories: Environmental Justice, Food & Climate, Sustainability
Age: Adults, High School, Young Adults

The Egg on the Seder Plate

Use this as a tool for making conscious food choices and to start a discussion about animal welfare at your seder. We discuss many items on the seder plate – but the egg is often…
Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover, Shabbat and Holidays, Sustainability

Climate Action Shabbat Guide

This Shabbat Guide is organized around how to take meaningful climate action as an individual, in community, and through the political system. Produced in partnership with Dayenu. Download the Climate Action Shabbat Guide
Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Shabbat and Holidays,
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, High School, Middle School, Young Adults

Local Lulav

A Sukkot resource packet with everything you need to shake sustainable, local lulavim. Filled with relevant educational materials, practical shaking and assembly instructions, and accessible spiritual and environmental insights. Created for the Metro Detroit community.…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Environmental Justice, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sukkot
Age: Adults, High School, Middle School, Teens

Guess that Smell

Categories: Spiritual Nature Experience, Sustainability
Tags: Teva
Age: Elementary, Teens

Seed Balls

Categories: Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Spiritual Nature Experience, Sustainability
Tags: garden, Teva
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Decomposition

Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, Sustainability
Tags: Teva, waste
Age: Elementary, Teens

Pickling 101

There are many options to preserve each season’s harvest, including canning, vinegar pickling, drying, blanching and freezing. This particular activity teaches lacto-fermentation pickling – an easy, fun and extremely health-friendly method of food preservation. Participants…
Categories: Food & Climate, Sustainability
Tags: canning, food preservation, Pickling, Teva
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Microgreens

Microgreens are mini versions of regular vegetables. The shoots are harvested at a young age, before they grow into fully matured plants. They have a wonderful flavor and are richer in nutrition than their larger…
Categories: Food & Climate, Sustainability
Tags: microgreens, Teva, vegetables
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Paper Making

As we learn from our tradition, we have a responsibility to care for the trees we have and to plan trees for the future. Recycled papermaking is a way of making new paper without needing…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Sustainability
Tags: paper making, recycled paper, Teva
Age: Elementary, Teens

Eco Spa Balm Making

Our tradition teaches that Shmirat HaGuf (care of our bodies) is important so that we can do good work in the world. To love ourselves we need to take care of our mind, body, and…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Sustainability
Tags: arts & crafts, DIY, Teva
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens