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SUMMARY:Chutzpah 2026 -- Phone Calls for Our Democracy
DESCRIPTION:We have the chutzpah to protect the people and places we love. This fall\, it’s all hands on deck to build people power for our climate\, our democracy\, and a livable future. \nThe Jewish Climate Action Network of Massachusetts is proud to partner with Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action\, and the Western Massachusetts Dayenu Circle to mobilize every single climate voter to get to the polls for the midterm elections — and put our future before fossil fuel profits. \nAt each shift\, we ground ourselves in Jewish wisdom\, go over the scripts\, then get to work calling voters. \nIf you’ve already been trained by Dayenu or the Environmental Voter Project\, you can jump right into calling. If this is your first time phonebanking\, no worries; we’ll train you before you start calling. \nAll you need to participate is a phone (landline or cell) and a web-enabled computer or tablet. \nTo register for the October 8 call\, please click here. \nTo register for the calls on September 24\, October 14\, and October 27\, please use this link. \n 
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/chutzpah-2026-phone-calls-for-our-democracy-4/
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SUMMARY:Spirit in Nature: A Guided Meditation Walk at Wolbach Farm
DESCRIPTION:A guided interfaith meditation walk in nature on the accessible All Persons’ Trail at Wolbach Farm in Sudbury. \n\n\n\n\nSpirit in Nature: A Guided Meditation Walk at Wolbach Farm\nWhatever Wednesday’s midterm election headlines bring\, Thursday’s woods will be waiting. Join us for an interfaith meditative walk led by Rabbi Katy Allen. It’s a time to commune with the spirit of nature using readings of poetry and moments of quiet reflection along Wolbach Farm’s new All Persons’ Trail. \nThis walk is open to all abilities and spiritualities. Together\, we will practice the art of slowing down and paying unhurried attention\, with help from ancient wisdom traditions and nature-based contemplative practices. \nAfterward\, if you’d like to bring a lunch or a snack\, we invite you to say and share a meal together at Wolbach’s Farm’s nearby picnic tables. \nPlease park in the gravel lot on your right as you enter Wolbach Road. Accessible parking spaces are available there\, close to the trailhead. Space is limited\, so please register in advance and consider carpooling. \nThis walk is part of Spirit in Nature\, MassIPL’s ongoing series of guided interfaith meditations in the outdoors. It is co-sponsored by Sudbury Valley Trustees and the Jewish Climate Action Network–MA (JCAN-MA). \nAbout Wolbach Farm\nWolbach Farm in Sudbury began as a dairy farm a century ago. Today it is the headquarters of Sudbury Valley Trustees\, which received the property from John Wolbach in his will. His wish was that the land be kept “predominantly in its natural\, scenic and open condition.” The farm sits next to the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Its All Persons’ Trail opened in 2025 and is a gently graded path of packed stone dust\, built so that people who use wheelchairs\, walkers\, or strollers can enjoy the land too. \nAbout Rabbi Katy Allen\nRabbi Katy Z. Allen is a rabbi\, poet\, and eco-chaplain whose lifelong love of the outdoors shapes her spiritual and creative work. She founded Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope\, an outdoor congregation\, and co-founded the Jewish Climate Action Network–MA. She has also served as a hospital and hospice chaplain. Her recent book\, A Tree of Life: A Story in Word\, Image\, and Text\, weaves together poetry\, story\, and image. In retirement\, she has devoted herself to poetry. You can find more of her writing at katyzallen.com.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/spirit-in-nature-a-guided-meditation-walk-at-wolbach-farm/
LOCATION:Wolbach Farm\, 18 Wolbach Road\, Sudbury\, 01776\, United States
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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\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.
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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.
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