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from the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership
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| Dear Friends, |
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We are happy to introduce the first edition of the electronic newsletter Heschel Updates. The Updates will be published four times a year, to inform our friends and supporters about programs, events and new initiatives at the Heschel Center. Now that we've made significant strides in reaching the "early adapters" of new ideas, we have to expand the circle and spread awareness about the social-environmental crisis in Israel much further.
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| Heschel News |
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The sixth year of the Heschel Center's Environmental Fellows Program
was launched. once again, the directors...
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New communities join Rikma and learn how to implement sustainability projects:
Rikma is the Hebrew word for embroidery, as well as an acronym for National Network for Local Sustainability.
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This year's Maof seminar
- the planning and networking retreat for leaders of the environmental movement...
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The Israeli Ministry of the Environment has recently published a status
report on the Government resolution to incorporate sustainable strategies throughout its ministries...
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The Israeli Environment book series
was launched in October by the Heschel Center and Bavel Publishers. The first three books...
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The first local sustainability academic program
was launched at Tel Aviv University in October, as a joint project of the Heschel Center, the Porter School for Environmental Studies and the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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Hakadur Beyadenu - the fifth annual conference for social-environmental education
will take place in Holon this year, on the second day of chanukah, December 9.
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The second Annual JGEN Seminar - the study tours and conferences that bring Jewish environmental experts from around the world to examine Israel's environmental concerns...
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We welcome your comments about the newsletter, and will be delighted to receive your feedback. Please feel free to forward the Updates to friends who may be interested, or click subscribe to automatically add them to our mailing list.
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| Wishing you a healthy, peaceful and Happy New Year, |
Dr. Eilon Schwartz
Executive Director
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| The commons |
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The commons
is the part of our world and our society that belongs to all of us. It includes air, water, and open space, but also language, culture, the Internet and much more. When we measure our own individual wealth, we often feel poor by comparison to others. But when we tally up what we all hold in common, we are wealthier than we can imagine. This commons and its well-being – and therefore our well-being as well – is threatened by many factors, such as privatization, lack of protection and neglect. A central component of sustainability is the message that the commons is not nobody's, but everybody's, and needs to be cared for by all. And no one (especially not commercial interests) should be allowed to treat it as their own private property, benefiting from the essential services it provides at the expense of others.
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