How Many Jews Does It Take to Change A Lightbulb?

If you’re not already very familiar with the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, please check out their amazing website now. It’s chock full of fantastic resources for making your synagogue and Jewish community more aware of environmental consequences, and ways to decrease your community’s environmental footprint.

But the big news over at COEJL is that they’ve started a new program called "Conservation Conversations: Invite Your Elected Official to Synagogue" to engage your elected officials in a dialogue about climate change policy and conservation. The program is being launched in partnership with the Relgious Action Center, and the RAC’s website is hosting a bunch of the materials that are relevant. They’ve got resources to help you find the best advocacy opportunities in your area, as well as tools to help you prepare for a political visitor. They even help you figure out how to use momentum from such an event to get things going further at your synagogue, minyan, or kehillah.
We supposed to be a light to the nations: Get it?
This is what I love about the RAC. They see an issue and they just attack it full on, disseminating information, helping with programming, morale, funding and other resources. Regardless of your level of observancy, you should check out the RAC’s homepage every once and a while just to see what kind of work they’re doing. Trust me when I say you’ll always be impressed.

Anyway, I hope you’ll check out the COEJL programming and take some time to get your representative or Senator to stop by your place of worship. And while those details are being worked out, go get yourself an energy efficient lightbulb to reduce greenhouse emissions. It’s easy, saves you money, and helps save the world. I’m pretty sure God would approve. For more info on COEJL’s How Many Jews Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb campaign, click here.