Hey Lab/Shul!
Lab/Shul’s Green Team (still in formation!) is excited to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this Wednesday, April 22nd, with several exciting invitations, initiatives and new ways to walk our talk of environmental action, care and survival.
Please check out the offerings below and contact us to join the team, offer ideas and step up!
To join the green team and learn more please contact Sarah at our office or Green Team volunteer, Amy:
Sarah@Labshul.org
amy.handelsman@gmail.com
Take Action & Keep the Earth Day Spirit Alive
April 26 – Gratitude Altars for Earth Day
Join Day Schildkret, Lab/Shul’s 5780 Artist-in-Residence on for a workshop making nature altars together as an offering of our love, our kinship, our grief, our gratitude for our home planet and all her inhabitants.
April 27 & May 6 – We Are the Weather Book Club
Join Rabbi Amichai and friends form the Green Team in a book club led by our friends at Hazon, The Jewish Lab for Sustainability. They’ll be reading and discuss Jonathan Safran Foer’s book “We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast,” on environmental consciousness.
GreenHouse: Hands-on How-to’s for Greener Living
Zero-waste expert Amanda Lindner aka “The Enviromensch” is one of our Green Team leaders, hasn’t owned a trash can in more than two years and uses her skills as a writer and speaker to help combat environmental injustice as featured in The New York Times. Join her for a series of “how-to” workshops on reducing our waste and climate impact, especially in the time of coronavirus.
4/30 Reducing Food Waste in the Time of Coronavirus
5/7 Zero-Waste Arts and Crafts for Families
5/14 How-To: Zero-Waste Cleaning
April 29 – All Hands/Hearts
Lab/Shul Partners can join the Green Team at our next All Hands/Hearts meeting and delve into next phase of activism – now and next.
You can also check out earthrise2020.org for a great list of how to mobilize online for climate justice.
Looking for some Earth-joy inspiration? Check out Lab/Shul community member Joan Beard’s photography of natural wonders – Joan took the killer photo in this blog too!
