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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 use the registration button on the left hand side. (Or 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/
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SUMMARY:Jewish Frameworks for Our Challenging Times
DESCRIPTION:We are living in a time of multiple\, interlocking challenges that we are experiencing psychologically\, socially\, and economically\, and it is no surprise that these catastrophes are also manifesting in our climate patterns. When wildfires in Canada and the upper Midwestern states leave Boston with hazy skies and the smell of smoke for two days\, it’s hard not to feel that we are looking at something close to the end of our world as we’ve known it. We recognize that we are called to pick up our share of the work\, but we are increasingly disoriented and unsure of the efficacy of “tried and true” methods. How does a person of conscience proceed? \nThis is not the first time that the Jewish people have lived through a calamity; we have emerged from ashes and rebuilt many times over. What wisdom can we find in our history and our teachings that can help us get through this moment\, and that we can share with the larger community? \nPlease join Rabbis Nina Cardin\, Natan Margalit\, and Ashira Stevens to explore the frameworks our ancestors used in other times of catastrophe\, as well as new ways of looking at venerable ideas. Come with questions\, and be prepared for discussion! \n \nRabbi Nina Beth Cardin is the chair of the Tzedek Center’s sustainability initiatives for the Conservative/Masorti movement. She also chairs the sustainability initiative of the Baltimore Environmental Sustainability Network and is the author most recently of To Forever Inhabit this Earth: An Ethic of Enoughness. \n \nRabbi Natan Margalit is a scholar with 30 years of experience in teaching\,writing\, organizing and congregational leadership. He has taught at Bard College\, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College\, Hebrew College Rabbinical School\, and now is chair of the Rabbinic Texts Department at the Aleph Ordination Program. He is also Director of the Earth-Based Judaism track of the A.O.P.\, and is founder of the non-profit Organic Torah. He is the author of The Pearl and the Flame: A Journey into Jewish Wisdom and Ecological Thinking (Albion Andalus\, 2022). He lives in Newton\, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. \n \nRabbi Ashira Stevens (she/her)\, ordained from Hebrew College in 2023\, has served as the rabbi and spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El of Haverhill and as the Director of Congregational Learning at Temple Beth David of Westwood. She finds deep meaning and delight in making Judaism accessible and relevant for people of all ages and backgrounds\, whether through exploring sacred texts\, sharing meaningful ritual moments\, or appreciating and stewarding the wonders of Creation.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/jewish-frameworks-for-our-challenging-times/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T180000
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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  \n 
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/chutzpah-2026-phone-calls-for-our-democracy-3/
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SUMMARY:Data Centers: The New Goliath
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Mothers Out Front Campaign Team for a virtual presentation and action on Data Centers and what we can do to fight them. Thursday\, October 15th from 7pm-8pm.  \nData centers are expanding rapidly and have very little regulation. They are often constructed without public knowledge\, and they use vast amounts of water and  fossil fuels. \nThe pushback against data centers is growing across the United States! \nMore than 70% of Americans do not want a data center near them! \nMothers Out Front in Massachusetts and in 3 other states are joining this pushback. A world with large unregulated data centers is not what we want for our children\, or for anyone. \nWhether one is focused on a healthy climate for children and environmental justice for everyone  – or high electric bills – or rogue AI cyberattacks – or threats to farmlands and wildlife – or protecting our democracy –  this is a fight we think mothers and caregivers should join. \nFor 10 years\, residents in Lowell\, MA living near a massive\, unregulated data center have been experiencing high levels of air and noise pollution.  There are plans underway to expand the data center! We want to be good allies in the community’s fight for their health and well-being. \nSpeakers include: \n\nJake Fortes: Honest Future for Lowell\nTristan Thomas: Alternatives for Community and Environment\nMireille Bejjani: Slingshot\n\nOrganized by the Mothers Out Front Massachusetts Campaign and Environmental Justice teams \nNot sure you’ll be able to make it? Sign up anyway and receive the materials after the presentation. \nFor more information or to get involved\, please contact us at info.ma.state.campaign@mothersoutfront.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261020T190000
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SUMMARY:Plastic Pollution: Health\, Climate\, and Solutions
DESCRIPTION:The problem with plastic goes way past those ubiquitous and annoying plastic straws and bags. When microplastics are being found in fetal tissue\, the scale of the problem isn’t about personal habits but systems–and that’s the scale of the solutions we need. \nDid we mention that plastics *are* fossil fuels? And that they’re the industry’s hedge to stay relevant as the world moves away from oil and gas for energy? It’s time for plastics to go! \n \nWe are excited to have Eileen Ryan\, leader of Beyond Plastics Greater Boston\, join us for a webinar about plastic pollution. She is on the steering committee of Plastic Free Mass. In addition to her work educating people about the perils of plastics she uses her creative talents to make costumes and art as a climate and social justice activist. Eileen lives in Watertown and is the mother of three grown children and a grandmother of two. \n— \nThanks to everyone who joined us! Eileen sent along the resources below for anyone who wants to delve more into stopping Big Oil from inundating us with plastics. \nPlease contact Eileen at beyondplasticsgreaterboston@gmail.com \nLet’s keep the activity going! \n\n\n\nEDUCATE yourself and your community about plastic pollution. \nWEBSITES\nBeyond Plastics offers excellent courses on plastic pollution. The introductory seven-week course is usually taught three times a year. Beyond Plastics also hosts two-session trainings for starting local groups and affiliates working on ordinances and policies several times a year. \nIn addition to Beyond Plastics\, the other websites here have webinar recordings\, movies\, actions and guidelines for writing ordinances and laws. \nBeyond Plastics: https://www.beyondplastics.org/ \nBreak Free From Plastic: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/ \nCafeteria Culture: https://www.cafeteriaculture.org/ \nCenter for International Environmental Law: https://www.ciel.org/ \nConservation Law Foundation: https://www.clf.org/ \nEarth Day: https://www.earthday.org/ \nFive Gyres: https://www.5gyres.org/ \nInternational Pollutants Elimination Network: https://www.ipen.org/plastics-treaty/toxic-plastics-reports \nJust Zero: https://just-zero.org/ \nMinderoo Foundation: https://www.minderoo.org/resources/ \nP-SNAP\, Physicians and Scientist Addressing Plastic: https://psnap.org/ \nPublic Employees for Environmental Responsibility: www.PEER.org \nPlastic Pollution Coalition: https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/ \nThe Story of Stuff: https://www.storyofstuff.org/storyofplastic/ \nMOVIES\nThere’s a great film available to watch on Netflix. We hosted several screenings of the Plastic Detox this Spring. I highly recommend it. \n\n\n\nAre plastics and the chemicals they contain decreasing our fertility? An eye-opening new documentary film\, “The Plastic Detox” follows six couples with unexplained infertility as they take steps to reduce their exposure to plastics in the hopes it will help them conceive.\n\nYou can watch the film on Netflix starting TODAY  \n\n\nThis is the link to “We’re All Plastic People Now”\nhttps://www.pbs.org/video/were-all-plastic-people-now-rkg2mq/\n\nMicroplastics Madness: https://www.cafeteriaculture.org/microplastic-madness.html\, link to a film about 5th graders in Red Hook\, NY\, who eventually help get a ban on polystyrene passed in New York State.\n\nhttps://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/\, includes the Story of Plastic – which is an excellent movie – and Coca-Cola links. Great short and longer films.\n\nThe Poison in Us All addresses PFAS contamination.\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-11-08/the-poison-in-us-all\n\n\nThis video shows what’s left when you remove the aluminum shell of a can of Coca-Cola https://youtu.be/uQHFQoFoxvQ?si=tE43-t4TTNELHV4Q\n\nBOOKS\n\nSicker\, Fatter\, Poorer is by Leo Trasande\, https://www.leotrasande.com/sicker-fatter-poorer\n\nA Poison Like No Other by Matt Simon https://islandpress.org/books/poison-no-other#desc.\nTrash Wars by Alex Clapp\, https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexander-clapp/waste-wars/9780316459020/?lens=little-brown\nThicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis by Erica Cirino\,https://islandpress.org/books/thicker-water#desc\nThey Poisoned the World by Mariah Blake: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554198/they-poisoned-the-world-by-mariah-blake/\nCount Down by Shanna Swan\, https://www.shannaswan.com/countdown\nThe Problem with Plastic by Judith Enck and the Beyond Plastics staff: https://www.beyondplastics.org/publications/problem-with-plastic-book\n\nThe Why Plastic? series of films from the Why Foundation in Denmark is very good. There are three approximately 1 hour films and many shorts. https://www.thewhy.dk/docuseries/whyplastic
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/plastic-pollution-health-climate-and-solutions/
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Courtney Humphries - Climate Change and the Future of Boston
DESCRIPTION:Join the Boston Public Library as author Courtney Humphries discusses her new book on the climate impacts facing Boston and the city’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate. \nLike many of the world’s iconic coastal cities\, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions\, Boston could face several feet of sea level rise this century\, which would leave many parts of the city subject to tidal and storm flooding. Precipitation events could become more frequent and extreme\, and its already-humid summers could become dangerously hot\, with most days over 90 degrees. Today\, Boston is a booming city with a growing population\, a glittering new waterfront neighborhood\, world-class universities and a strong economy. Its future risks and opportunities related to climate change are shaped by the 400-year environmental\, social and economic history of the city’s development. \nClimate Change and the Future of Boston describes how Boston’s history and current context shape future climate impacts and examines the mitigation and adaptation strategies the city has taken. Boston is a leader in acknowledging the problem of climate change; it has set a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050\, among other climate-related goals. It has also developed science-based climate models and undertaken a robust planning process to identify strategies to protect its waterfront from flooding and increase its resilience to other climate-related impacts. Its mayor has embraced a progressive Green New Deal for Boston emphasizing the need for an inclusive and equitable approach to climate mitigation and adaptation. But the city also faces structural challenges\, such as aging infrastructure\, historic racial inequities\, rising gentrification and income inequality and ongoing political and regulatory obstacles that hinder efforts to adapt in an efficient and just manner. She will conclude with a set of forward-looking scenarios about what the future may have in store for the city and the lessons it holds for other coastal cities struggling with these challenges. \nCourtney Humphries\, PhD\, is an interdisciplinary scholar\, teacher\, and award-winning journalist writing about science and the urban environment. \nWhile JCAN-MA does not host events of our own on Saturdays\, we will occasionally promote other organizations’ events that are relevant to our work.
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/author-talk-courtney-humphries-climate-change-and-the-future-of-boston/
LOCATION:Boston Public Library\, 700 Boylston Street\, Boston\, 02116\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261027T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261029T190000
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SUMMARY:Beyond The Traditional Funeral
DESCRIPTION:It is oft said that the only two things one can rely on is Death and Taxes. \nLet us contemplate how climate activist can embrace the first. Yes\, Jews have always believed in ‘green burial’ as a simple pinewood box and no chemicals infused into the departed\, but the options now might be even greener! \nJoin Lauren Cambell Mulligan\, licensed funeral director and owner\, for her presentation BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL FUNERAL. We’ll explore today’s options\, environmental considerations\, and making choices that reflect your values. \nNo registration required! \nZoom meeting link
URL:https://jewishclimate.org/event/beyond-the-traditional-funeral/
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