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Climate Action Team

jcogs Climate action/green team

Help make JCOGS and our JCOGS community more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Choose to reuse! Share your love of the environment! Bring others along with you! 
Join our monthly Zoom meetings on the last Sunday of the month, 6-7pm. Click here to register.  For more information email green@jcogs.org. Be part of the JCOGS Climate Action/Green Team!  

Caring for the environment is a huge and complex task, but one that is desperately needed if we are to maintain a livable planet.

The Climate Action/Green Team is working with other committees, and on their own, to help JCOGS, and the wider JCOGS community, become the most sustainable we can be.

 

The goals of the JCOGS Climate Action/Green Team are to:

i)   help raise environmental awareness

ii)   provide an environmental lens to other JCOGS committees

iii)  encourage meaningful changes for more environmentally conscious lives

iv)  help community members draw spiritual strength from the love of, and care for, the environment. 

climate action plan

We have recently completed a Climate Action Plan for JCOGS, to help guide and prioritize our actions in the following areas:

  • Sourcing clean electricity
  • Fuel switching
  • Energy efficiency
  • Transportation
  • Off-setting emissions
  • Food we serve
  • Minimizing food waste
  • Food waste emissions
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Education and nature connection
  • Other sustainability actions
  • Climate justice
  • Resiliency
  • Advocacy
  • Finance
  • Strategic planning and governance
  • Conferences and retreats

Bring your ideas and your enthusiasm, and join us in making JCOGS and the wider community a healthier, more sustainable, happier place! Email: green@jcogs.org

 

Further resources:

Jewish Environmental Organizations

Adamah - the largest Jewish environmental organization in North America.
Our mission is to cultivate vibrant Jewish life in deep connection with the earth. We believe in the deep connection between people & planet, adam & adamah.

Adamah’s Jewish Youth Climate Movement – a Gen Z-led movement dedicated to combatting climate change and environmental justice from a Jewish lens.

Dayenu – a Jewish call to climate action. We’ve had enough! We’re building a movement to confront the climate crisis, rooted in Jewish values, experience, and spirit.

Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life – advocating for climate and environmental justice – in pursuit of a cleaner, healthier life for all.

Resources for Tu B’Shvat

Adamah Tu B’Shvat Haggadah

Hazon Tu B’Shvat Haggadah 

Tu BiShvat on Sefaria Collection 

Dayenu - Onetable Shabbat ahd Tu B’Shvat Resources

Other Resources

Vermont Interfaith Power and Light – a Vermont faith-based response to climate change.

Rising Tides, Rising Voices – songs for the Jewish climate movement.

See here for a Recap and Outline of Jan 4, 2025 Tu B’Shvat gathering of Caring for Ourselves While We Care About The World with themes, poems, quotes and questions, practices, and insights we shared

Democracy Dispatch - Justin Marsh, Vermont Conservation Voters, updates listeners on environmental legislation under discussion in the VT Statehouse’

Vermont Interfaith Action

Sat, March 7 2026 18 Adar 5786