Welcome! And, thank you for stopping by COEJL’s new virtual home. Updated with new content and a convenient user interface, coejl.org is the source for Jewish information on energy, sustainability, and climate change.
Our leadership has identified two key areas of concentration for COEJL: (1) sustainability efforts among Jewish leadership, institutions and individuals, and, (2) building a stronger, more diverse Jewish voice on environmental policy, with a particular focus on energy and climate change.
We believe the way to meet these goals is to network with organizations and individuals alike to mobilize the Jewish community to conserve energy, increase sustainability, and advocate for policies that increase energy efficiency and security.
Our new website reflects this vision. You can see it expressed through brand-new web-features such as:
- Updated features and news up front on our home page.
- A News & Views section detailing what Jewish communities are doing, and should be doing, and providing Jewish and interfaith perspectives on sustainability, climate change, energy independence and other environmental issues.
- An Issues Archive of policy statements, sign-on letters and action alerts.
- Advanced search for Resources on advocacy and policy, Jewish thought and texts, and Jewish life and programs.
For those who are fans of our COEJL SEEDS Program Bank, it’s been reincarnated on the Resources page on the right hand column on the page. If you can’t find something that you previously used, please contact us.
This dynamic new website reflects big changes taking place at COEJL. With new leadership and a new vision, COEJL is advocating a public Jewish voice on energy and the environment and serving as a resource for and initiator of Jewish communal sustainability work.
Right now, leaders from across the American Jewish political, religious and generational spectra are signing on to the Jewish Energy Covenant Campaign. They are committing to reduce their own energy use and greenhouse-gas emissions and establish a unified framework for advocating energy independence and energy justice.
We hope you will come back frequently to coejl.org and be inspired to do your part to galvanize a diverse American Jewish community to stand together with one voice and take concrete action on sustainability, energy and climate change.
Sybil Sanchez
Director, COEJL
