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from the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership
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| Dear Friends, |
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“My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west”, so wrote the great medieval Jewish poet Yehudah HaLevi about his longings for Zion. I am spending this year in the States with my family, and although having a wonderful time, the High Holidays and now Sukkot bring out our first true longings for home .
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| Heschel News |
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The Heschel Center to receive more than €300,000 of funding from the European Union’s LIFE program for a national Agenda 21 training program.
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The seventh class of The Heschel Center’s Environmental Fellows started the program in September.
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Jaime Lerner - architect, international sustainability consultant and former mayor of the most sustainable city in the world, visited Israel.
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The Minister of the Environment, Shalom Simchon, visited the Heschel Center in September with a delegation from his office, to meet with NGO representatives and discuss ideas and strategies for the future in light of the record-high budget the Minister secured for his office this year.
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Transportation and Environment Policy: Where are we going? The report was launched in October by the Heschel Center and WorldWatch Institution.
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Along the Sea is a new, marine ecology program established by The Green Network in cooperation with EcoOcean.
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The Green Globe, Israel’s most prominent environmental prize, was awarded to Heschel Environmental Fellow Stella Avidan.
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Sun Power, a company dedicated to promoting, creating and marketing bio-diesel, was established by Eyal Biger, a Heschel Fellow.
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... with mounting demands for rapid development, our work at the Heschel Center is more relevant and more urgent than ever. This is an exciting year for us, and the newsletter highlights some of the more prominent events. As always, we depend on your moral and financial support to continue forging the path to a more sustainable, more compassionate Israel.
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| May the new year bring renewed energies, passions and commitment to the protection of the health of our families, our communities, and our land - the places and people that make up home. |
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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