On, November 4, 2016, Temple Solel in Hollywood, Florida, along with eight other synagogues, helped celebrate the Higher Ground Initiative’s “Sea Level Rise Shabbat” in conjunction with the reading of parashat Noach.
On Tuesday, President Obama announced a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along large swaths of the Arctic and the Atlantic seaboard, protecting 115 million acres of an especially unique and vulnerable ecosystem.
Tuesday’s action was made in
Let’s consider our carbon footprint. Let’s take into account how many people live in your home, how many miles you drive per week, how many flights you take annually and how much meat you eat.
On October 4, Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 storm, swept through the Caribbean and devastated Haiti, destroying thousands of homes and taking the lives of over 1,000 people. Days later, the storm also hit parts of the southeastern United States.
The Clean Power Plan (CPP), a sweeping climate change policy that would fundamentally change the way we use energy, is currently being challenged in the United States Court of appeals.
The Clean Power Plan is a joint policy of the Obama Administration and the
The Jewish Holiday season is in full swing. We have celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, the day of repentence, and now we are rounding the corner to Sukkot and Simchat Torah.
This summer, we saw the hottest month on record since 1880. In the last 135 years, the 20 hottest recorded years have occurred since 1981. Climate change is increasingly and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. As D.C.
Climate change is more just an issue of the trees and oceans around us. There is a real human cost associated with the warming of our planet.
When carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere, usually by burning
In July, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church), one of the largest and oldest black churches in the United States, passed their first ever resolution dedicated to climate change in the Church’s 200-year history. The resolution highlights the disp
On the first day of my internship, I found out that one of the issues I’d be working on was the Endangered Species Act. There was one problem: when it comes to social justice, I’m in it for the people. Not so much the bald eagles.
I’ve never been particularly
