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TAKE ACTION: a light among the nations
Take immediate action to help stop global warming by participating in COEJL’s climate change campaign. Click here to find out more about,
"How Many Jews Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?"

Please urge your congressional delegation to protect our planet by co-sponsoring critical science-based global warming bills.

Every Human Being is part of THE GREAT WARMING. The Great Warming is a powerful climate change film launching November 3 in Regal Cinemas. Click here to read about The Great Warming Call to Action and learn how you can get involved!

COEJL is a featured partner of The Virtual March to Stop Global Warming. Visit our personal impact page and sign up to participate!


ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Click here for the latest update on our CFL campaign, "A Light Among the Nations."

Faith based screenings of An Inconvenient Truth are taking place nationwide in October. Click here for listings.

Did you misplace your latest COEJL E-bulletin? Click here to see issue #33 - Light Among the Nations / Days of Awe / Support Enviro Bills

COEJL has updated its Guide to Speakers on Judaism and the Environment. Find a local speaker for your event here!


COEJL IN THE NEWS:
Environmentalists celebrate Sukkot with water festivities and jack-o’-lanterns, JTA News, September 28, 2006

COEJL's CFL Campaign is in the news! Don't Just Sit in the Dark - Washington Jewish Week, August 3, 2006

Jewish Groups Launch Environmental Effort, JTA News, August 1, 2006

More Answers [about global warming], Creative Loafing, August 2, 2006


CELEBRATE:
Hanukkah - December 16-23, 2006


MISSION STATEMENT:
COEJL deepens the Jewish community's commitment to the stewardship of creation and mobilizes the resources of Jewish life and learning to protect the Earth and all its inhabitants.


 
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This climate-change conspiracy is getting elaborate: now leaders of some of the largest energy companies in the U.S. are in on it. Faced with a mish-mash of state-level regulations, behemoths like Shell Oil and Duke Energy are pushing for a federal cap on greenhouse-gas emissions, and an end to climate ...

Community organizer Sam Pratt, featured in a new PBS documentary, InterActivates
Sam Pratt spent six years fighting the polluting plans of the largest cement company in the world. His story, and that of fellow citizens of Hudson, N.Y., is featured in the soon-to-air PBS documentary "Two Square Miles." As InterActivist this week, Pratt speaks out about accidental activism, his embarrassing furniture, ...

After days of negotiations, U.N. fails to pass high-seas bottom-trawling ban
In a roughy outcome for conservationists, the U.N. failed to adopt a high-seas bottom-trawling ban supported by countries including the U.S. and Australia. The controversial fishing method, currently used by 11 countries including ban-busters Iceland and Russia, involves dragging vast nets and coral-crunching rollers across the sea floor. It has ...


 

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