JCAN-MA finds experts who can offer insights and direction in decarbonizing houses of worship, homes, and portfolios. Who teach us about soil, lawns and gardens. We find leaders who help arm us for climate advocacy. And we find rabbis and leaders who boost our spiritual resilience. We offer you access to these webinars for free, although donations to JCAN-MA will help us cover our expenses so that we can continue doing this work. Thank you in advance for whatever you can help us with.
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SPIRITUAL RESILIENCE WEBINARS
From Anxiety to Climate Action: Cultivating Jewish Spiritual Resilience
The climate crisis is not only an ecological, racial justice, and economic crisis, it’s an issue of the soul. There is much Jewish wisdom that can help us to face fear, cultivate courage, and take action for a just, livable future. This session, based on Dayenu’s Spiritual Adaptation work, includes exercises to help us metabolize the climate realities before us and draw on Jewish texts of resilience and imagination for the work ahead. Rabbi Laura Bellows serves as the Director of Spiritual Activism & Education at Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, where she supports American Jews to cultivate courage and take bold action to build a thriving world for all.
To Forever Inhabit This Earth: An Ethic of Enoughness
For over two decades, Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin has been a major leader in the Jewish Environmental movement. To Forever Inhabit This Earth is a capstone on her visionary focus on the seeing the issues of climate change and sustainability through a uniquely Jewish lens.
ADVOCACY WEBINARS
99th Day: A Warning About Technology
Our current ways of life are unsustainable, and we are already living with the consequences, in spite of decades of warnings. Gerry McGovern’s new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, examines how we got here as well as what we can do for future generations. In his words, “we must protect and resist”. Collapse is coming. Driven by AI, data centers, bitcoin, greed. All the devouring mining, the relentless toxic waste. And ‘great’ men’s fragile egos and insatiable need to dominate. What will we leave those who must come after us? How did we get here? Gerry McGovern has spent most of his career focused on reducing data waste, particularly with his method Top Tasks. He has published nine books
All Our Might: Building the Jewish Climate Movement Through Effective Campaigns
This video covers how Dayenu strengthened our movement of Jewish climate activists through strategic, outsized campaigns;, the specific lessons we learned that you can replicate on any campaign; and how you can join us in this profound work. Rachel Mandelbaum has been an organizer and campaigner in the climate movement for over a decade.
DECARBONIZING WEBINARS
Greening Your Finances
You have choices in every aspect of your financial life which can reduce or eliminate your participation in the funding of the fossil fuels which create pollution at every step of their lifecycle. A future with dramatically reduced fossil fuel use is possible. This program offers you ideas for how you can do it. David Schreiber and Scott Kadish are both Certified Financial Planners.
The Truth About Rare Earth Elements Mining
Rare earth materials play a crucial role in solar panels and electric vehicles. These materials possess unique properties that optimize the absorption and conversion of sunlight into electricity. All essential for electrification and decarbonization–but where are the rare earth materials coming from? What is being taken, and how does it impact the sites it’s taken from? More importantly, how does it impact the people? Is there a way to mine without creating new sacrifice zones? Dr. Jeremy Williams is a geoscientist and Assistant Professor, Department of Geology at Kent State University.
Retire Your Lawn: Plant Hope
30-40% of all land is privately owned. What if the faith groups, businesses, local governments, schools/universities, and individuals with purview to this earth took responsibility for its’ and planets’ health? This program offers 5 models for transitioning from a traditional manicured lawn to the one that could eliminate mowing, limit watering, and help our earth. Judith Black is an American professional storyteller, who has toured internationally, telling stories to wide ranging audiences