WL Sustainability: Our Planet: Protect, Preserve, Save – Keep It Beautiful!

[This Program is scheduled on Eastern Time Zone]

WL Sustainability: Our Planet: Protect, Preserve, Save – Keep It Beautiful!

Celebrate Earth Day with an engaging and solutions-focused panel discussion on climate change and environmental sustainability.

This program will present factual insights and highlight innovative solutions being developed by entrepreneurs, researchers, and corporations working to address environmental challenges. Panelists will explore what is currently possible, what still needs to be done, and how each of us can contribute to protecting and preserving our planet.
 
Building on our February 2024 program featuring meteorologist Mark Papier and Mirele Goldsmith of the Jewish Earth Alliance, this conversation continues to deepen our understanding while focusing on actionable outcomes.
 
What You’ll Learn:

• Current solutions and innovations addressing climate change
• Key areas where action is still needed
• Practical ways individuals can make a difference

Featured Speakers:
Yosef Abramowitz is a human rights activist, educator and entrepreneur. Nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize, Abramowitz is recognized as a pioneer of the solar energy industry in Israel and East Africa. He was named by CNN as one of the six top global “Green Pioneers” and by PV Tech as one of the world’s most inspiring solar CEOs. Josef is co-founder of the Arava Power Company, which built the first grid- connected solar field in Israel, in May 2012 closed on $220 million for the next eight solar fields in Israel, in April 2013 closed on another 40 MW project, with a further $2 billion worth of projects in the pipeline. His life’s work was featured on CNN’s “The Next List” with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
 
Shani Mink is a seasoned farmer, experiential Jewish educator and the executive director of the Jewish Farmer Network. For over a decade Shani has been working on farms up and down the east coast and abroad as a field hand, educator, manager and consultant including stints at Even’ Star Organic Farm, the Arava Institute, Hava V’Adam, Eden Village Camp, Adamah, and the Pearlstone Center. Her work with the land has deepened her spiritual path, and the wisdom of the Jewish tradition has lent endless meaning and intention to her work as a farmer. Shani’s desire to share the depth and beauty of the connection between farming and Judaism led her to co-found the Jewish Farmer Network with SJ Seldin in 2017. The cultivation of this network is Shani’s proudest accomplishment to date.
 
Rabbi Ed Rosenthal is the founder and CEO of Repair the Sea | Tikkun HaYam, the only Jewish environmental organization that focuses solely on water and the aquatic environment. The Mission of Repair the Sea is to share the spiritual wonders of water and the Sea from a Jewish perspective, promote interfaith harmony and cooperation, and raise awareness and encourage action to address the many threats facing the aquatic environment. Before founding Repair the Sea, Ed was a congregational rabbi for twelve years in New Zealand and Texas, followed by twenty-three years with Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. He spent two years as the Campus Rabbi at Emory University, eight years as the Executive Director of Cornell University Hillel, and then thirteen years as the Hillel Regional Director in Tampa Bay. He is a recipient of Hillel International’s Richard M. Joel Exemplar of Excellence award and the AIPAC Ally of the Year award. He also served as a chaplain in the US Navy Reserve with the rank of lieutenant from 1983-1991.

Ed and his wife Mindy, met in elementary school in St. Louis, Missouri, and went to prom together in high school. They have three children (two by birth and one by marriage) and two grandchildren. Ed and Mindy live in St. Petersburg, Florida.

REGISTER

Registration is open to WL members (in the USA & Canada), you must log in (www.wlcjmembers.org/member_login.php) to register for this program. If you need assistance, please contact the office (405) 870-1260.
 
Participation in this program is a benefit of your membership. 
 
Questions?
Contact
Corinne Hammerschlag and Heddy Belman
WL Sustainability Co-Chairs
Email Corinne: corinneh@rogers.com or Heddy: hbelman@wlcj.org