Since COEJL was founded in 1993, the Jewish environmental movement has grown by leaps and bounds to become a major force in the American Jewish community. Below are two major areas of Jewish environmental collaboration.
Green Hevra
COEJL is an active member of the Green Hevra, a network of key Jewish environmental organizations strategizing to create ways to share efforts and best practices on a broad spectrum of Jewish environmental issues. Members include:
Hazon
The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Canfei Nesharim
The Teva Learning Center
Jewish Farm School
Kayam Farm
Shalom Center
NeoHasid
Eden Village Camp
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network
Green Zionist Alliance
Wilderness Torah
Recent projects in which Green Hevra members have collaborated include:
Jewcology
Created by a group of members of the ROI community of young, Jewish innovators, Jewcology is a resource for the Jewish-environmental sphere. The goal of the project is to produce a denominationally, generationally and regionally varied network in order to learn from each other about how best to maintain our Jewish responsibility to care for the environment. COEJL serves as a “content partner”, sharing resources and support for Jewcology’s burgeoning web-based approach to disseminating Jewish-environmental ideas.
