More Green and Just Resources
Jewish Resources for Green and Just Purchasing
Booklet Caring for the Cycle of Life: Creating Environmentally Sound Life-Cycle Celebrations by Mark X. Jacobs (The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, www.coejl.org).
Website Fair Trade Judaica by Ilana Schatz & David Lingren: www.fairtradejudaica.org.
Booklet Food for Thought, Hazon’s 130-page Sourcebook on Jews, Food, and Contemporary Life, offers traditional Jewish texts and contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish texts along with discussion questions and activity suggestions (Nigel Savage & Anna Stevenson, Hazon, www.hazon.org/go.php?q=/food/JFEN/foodForThought.html).
Website Green Mitzvot has tools to help you plan an eco-friendly bar or bat mitzvah:
www.greenbarmitzvahs.com.
Website Hazon’s Food Guide offers resources and ideas about how to make your food choices sustainable and good for the environment (Hazon,
www.hazon.org/go.php?q=/food/foodGuide/theHazonFoodGuide.html).
Article “Simplicity as a Jewish Path” in Reconstructionism Today by Rabbi Moti Rieber & Betsy Platkin Teutsch (Winter 2002/2003: Jewish Reconstructionist Federation) www.jrf.org/showrt&rid=529.
Book Jews, Money, and Social Responsibility: Developing a “Torah of Money” for Contemporary Life by Lawrence Bush & Jeffrey Dekro (1993: The Shefa Fund).
Booklet No Shvitz: Your One Stop Guide to Fighting Sweatshops
(Progressive Jewish Alliance, www.pjalliance.org/UserFiles/File/PDF/OrderShvitz.pdf).
Resources for Greener Purchasing, Socially Responsible Investing, and Simpler Living
Website Los EcoAmigos: The Bilingual Green Guide to Sustainable Living Practices, offering bilingual (English/Spanish) environmental services including education, translation, and green consulting, http://losecoamigos.org/.
Booklet Dining With Justice 2010: A Guide to Guilt Free Eating. A bilingual (English/Spanish) guide to socially responsible restaurants in San Francisco, highlighting establishments that follow labor las and treat their employees with dignity and respect (Young Workers United, www.youngworkersunited.org/)
Directory National Green Pages™ (2009: Green America) Search free at www.greenpages.org, 800.58.GREEN.
Booklet Guide to Ending Sweatshops (2008: Green America) Free download from www.sweatshops.org, or order at info@greenamericatoday.org, or call 800.58.GREEN.
Booklet Guide to Fair Trade (2009: Green America) Free download from www.fairtradeaction.org, or order at info@greenamericatoday.org, or call 800.58.GREEN.
Booklet Guide to Socially Responsible Investing (2000: Green America)
Order from info@greenamericatoday.org, or call 800.58.GREEN.
Booklet Tips for Parenting in a Commercial Culture (Revised edition 2006: Center for a
New American Dream) Free download from www.newdream.org/publications.
Book What Kids Really Want That Money Can’t Buy: Tips for Parenting in a Commercial Culture, by Betsy Taylor (Center for a New American Dream) $14 from www.newdream.org/publications.