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SUMMARY:Plastic-Free Future: Protecting People and the Planet
DESCRIPTION:Plastic pollution is everywhere – in our oceans\, our communities\, and even our bodies. But what can we do about it? \nJoin Just Zero and Plastic Free Mass at the New England Aquarium for a conversation about the impacts of plastic on human health and the environment – and the solutions that can help protect both. \nModerated by Kirstie Pecci\, Executive Director of Just Zero and a leading expert on recycling and waste policy\, the panel of experts will explore what we know about the growing impacts of plastics – from our oceans to our bodies – and what individuals\, communities\, and policymakers can do to create a healthier\, less plastic-dependent future. \nPresented in partnership with Just Zero\, an environmental nonprofit working to advance community-centered Zero Waste solutions across the country\, and Plastic Free Mass\, a coalition of more than 40 Massachusetts organizations working to reduce plastic pollution.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/plastic-free-future-protecting-people-and-the-planet/
LOCATION:New England Aquarium | Simons Theatre\, 1 Central Wharf\, Boston\, MA\, 02110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Light the Way: Energy Justice and the One Billion People Left Behind
DESCRIPTION:A hands-on climate justice project your faith community can do: assembling solar lights for families living without electricity. \nPicture finishing your homework by the light of a kerosene lamp. More than 660 million of our neighbors around the world have no light switch on the wall. Hundreds of millions more do have a connection\, but it is too unreliable to count on. Kerosene is expensive\, dangerous\, and it fills small rooms with smoke and the atmosphere with heat-trapping climate pollution. If you have ever wondered where climate justice meets plain human dignity\, this is one of those places. \nOn Tuesday\, November 17 at 7:00 p.m.\, MassIPL and JCAN-MA host SolarBuddy for an online webinar about energy justice and how to lead a solar light workshop of your own. Join us on Zoom from wherever you are to learn about a hands-on climate justice project your congregation can actually do together\, right in your own fellowship hall\, social hall\, or classroom\, with your youth group and the green team working side by side. \nWhat we’ll cover in the webinar\n\nWhat energy poverty really is\, and what it looks like in a family’s daily life\nHow a small solar light can change things for children and families\, told through stories from the people who hand them out on the ground\nWhat it looks like to host a solar light assembly\, where people of all ages build lights together and write notes to the children who will receive them\nHow all of this connects to clean energy work here in Massachusetts\n\nGive A Little Light\nTake action this holiday season through SolarBuddy’s  Give a Little Light campaign. Invite your congregation to deliver clean light to children living in darkness\, helping them learn\, play and feel safe after the sun goes down\, while avoiding an estimated 1.28 tonnes of carbon emissions over its lifetime by replacing toxic fuels. \nHelp light the way\nSt. Dunstan’s in Dover is hosting a solar light workshop this February\, and your congregation is invited to host one of its own. The webinar will offer ideas for building a solar light project into Hanukkah\, Advent\, Earth Month in 2027\, or any season of your year together. Come learn how you can help light the way with us.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/light-the-way-energy-justice-and-the-one-billion-people-left-behind/
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SUMMARY:Climate and Transportation with Mark Dunlea
DESCRIPTION:The relationship between transportation and climate change could use some improvement! While some of us may aspire to drive an electric vehicle\, that in itself is not the answer. Among other things\, we need more mass transit\, but according to the Report Card for America’s Infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers\, 45% of Americans have no access to mass transit\, and our transit infrastructure has a backlog of maintenance and repairs that is expected to reach $270 billion by 2029. \nThis is a difficult topic to grapple with\, but we don’t avoid difficult. Come tease out the roots of the problem\, its true ramifications\, and what our limits and possibilities are with long-time climate organizer and author Mark Dunlea. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nMark Dunlea is a graduate of RPI and Albany law school\, where he was a co-founder of both NYPIRG (Public Interest Research Group) and national PIRG. After law school\, Mark spent more than 35 years doing community organizing for ACORN and the Hunger Action Network of New York State\, working on issues such as single-payer healthcare\, economic justice\, welfare rights\, corporate accountability\, and food sovereignty. He has also been active in the peace movement and a host of public affairs radio shows for 25 years. Mark and his wife in 1985 built their own passive solar home in Common Farms\, an intentional community based on sustainability principles in Poestenkill NY. For the last decade\, Mark has worked full-time on climate advocacy. He helped coordinate the campaigns to divest both the NYC and NYS public pension funds from fossil fuels for 350NYC. He is the “convenor” of PAUSE (People of Albany United for Safe Energy\, the 350 affiliate in the Capital district). \nMark is the author of Putting Out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Change and Advocacy. Mark wrote the book after teaching a course on climate change on Bennington College\, finding that there was not a good introductory book to climate change for colleges. He recently wrote a chapter on climate change for a book that Ralph Nader is publishing on The Five Omnicides. You can read for free (and download a copy of the book) at https://gelfny.org/putting-out-the-planetary-fire/ \nYou can read the section on transportation at \nhttps://gelfny.org/putting-out-the-planetary-fire/chapter-3-buildings-and-transportation/#transportation
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/climate-and-transportation-with-mark-dunlea/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: *My Sister and I* by Rabbi Katy Allen
DESCRIPTION:Join JCAN co-founder Rabbi Katy Allen to celebrate the publication of her first poetry chapbook\, My Sister and I from Bottlecap Press. She will be joined by ecopoet and scholar Sharon Roseman for a conversation about her writing process and ecopoetry in general and will read several poems\, some from her chapbook and some published elsewhere. There will also be time for questions and discussion.\n\n\n\n\nMy Sister and I celebrates the complexity of our human relationships with the world outside our doors. Allen invites the reader to join her on a journey of exploration of our interconnectedness\, beginning with the mystery and wonder around us\, capturing at times a specific moment of amazement and at times the overall splendor around us. \nLyrically and gently yet with brutal honesty\, Allen’s poems grapple with the pain of environmental degradation and anthropogenic climate change\, taking the reader from joy to tenderness to deep grief and despair. In the end\, the poet reminds us of the healing power of nature and the relationships we can continue to build with the world’s nonhuman inhabitants\, ultimately reflecting on the unity and mystery of all. Allen has lived close to and deeply loved the natural world all her life\, and her heart-felt sense of connection shines through in her poetry. \n \nKaty Z. Allen (she/her) began her career as a high school science teacher and worked in educational publishing before becoming a rabbi. She served as a healthcare chaplain\, and\, taking on the role of eco-chaplain\, started an outdoor Jewish congregation\, led interfaith outdoor experiences\, and co-founded a Jewish climate organization. She has been writing in one context or another since the age of eight. Now retired and having added poet to her list of titles\, her poetry has appeared in print and online in numerous journals\, including Amethyst Review\, The Bluebird Word\, Cosmic Daffodil\, The Soliloquest Magazine and Art on the Trails: Number 9. She has two micro-chapbooks from Origami Poems Project and was awarded Honorable Mention in The Prose Poem’s 2025 Prose Poetry Competition. Her poetic book on the journey through trauma to healing\, A Tree of Life: A Story in Word\, Image\, and Text\, which includes stunning black-and-white photographs by her mother\, Mary North Allen\, was published by Strong Voices Publishing. Her work can be found at www.katyzallen.com. \n \nSharon Roseman is a multi-genre author and professor of Anthropology at Memorial University (Canada). She is dedicated to the role of creativity and research in the urgent work of repair. Her poetry and fiction appear in Jewish Fiction\, Poetica Magazine\, SurVision Magazine\, The Ekphrastic Review\, and elsewhere. These include works of ecopoetry\, as with a recent poem published in Gashmius. Her ethnographic research in Spain and Canada has focused on food security and mobility justice\, among other topics. She wrote the book O Santiaguiño de Carreira and has edited nine additional books and journal issues. She is a member of Transport Action Atlantic and her current research deals with sustainable ferry transit in Newfoundland. In a recently-completed project on precarious pedestrianism\, she and Elizabeth Yeoman employed film Honk If You Want Me Off the Road alongside an academic publication “Enunciating Outrage: Sidewalk Mobility Injustice and Activism” in the journal Mobilities (2024). \n\nMy Sister and I can be purchased at Bottlecap Press.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/author-talk-my-sister-and-i-by-rabbi-katy-allen/
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SUMMARY:Two Eco-Poets: A Conversation About Climate
DESCRIPTION:Join poets Andy Oram and Deborah Leipzeiger for an evening of Jewish eco-poetry and discussion. Andy and Deborah will read from their works\, followed by time for discussion and reflection\, as well as your own written responses. The evening will be facilitated by Rabbi Katy Allen. \n \nDeborah Leipziger is an author\, poet\, and advisor on sustainability. Born in Brazil\, Ms. Leipziger is the author of several books on sustainability and human rights. Her collection of ecopoems\, Tell Me\, was published in 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books. Her work appears in numerous anthologies\, including The Nature of our Times and Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems. Her poems have been published in ten countries in such magazines as Revista Cardenal\, Inkwell\, The Bombay Literary Magazine\, and Salamander. She is currently working on a Lexicon of Change\, which shares the vocabulary we need for social and environmental transformation. \nDeborah was a 2023-2024 Creative Community Fellow\, selected by JArts\, a Poet-in-Residence at the Vilna Shul\, a cultural center in Boston and a Writer in Residence at Northeastern University. She is a recipient of grants from the Brookline Arts Commission and a JOTA Fellowship from Brandeis University. \n \nAndy Oram is a writer and editor in the computer field. Andy also writes often on health IT\, on policy issues related to the Internet\, and on trends affecting technical innovation and its effects on society. Print publications where his work has appeared include The Economist\, Communications of the ACM\, Copyright World\, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics\, Vanguardia Dossier\, and Internet Law and Business. He has lived in the Boston\, Massachusetts area for more than 30 years. He self-published a memoir\, “Backtraces: Three Decades of Computing\, Communities\, and Critiques” and his poems have appeared more than in 70 journals and anthologies.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/7410/
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