Make a Commitment for EcoShabbat!
This is a list of suggested challenges that you, as an individual, and you as a community can commit to. Feel free to do just one, or as many as you like. The timescale for completion is up to you.
Share your individual or community commitment via social media using the hashtags #EcoShabbat24 #EcoShabbatChallenge tagging your community and EcoJudaism. Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
We would also be delighted to share your commitment stories on our website so email donna@ecojudaism.org.uk
Good Luck! Let’s Do This Together!
Links included are a guide only, there are loads of other great resources & organisations to be found online!
PICK A CHALLENGE OR THREE!
Take the EcoJudaism Environment Audit
Revisit your EcoJudaism Environment Audit
Facilitate specific sermons from your Rabbinic team on environmental issues throughout the year
Facilitate specific learning opportunities on environmental issues for your community throughout the year
Hold an environmental awareness-raising event (e.g., documentary/film evenings, discussion, debates)
Hold an EcoPanel debate or Information event
Commit to a Carbon Footprint measurement with 360Carbon
Set targets to reduce your Carbon Footprint for the next year including historic buildings
Go Zero-Waste for 1 week/month
Setup additional recycling opportunities such as with TerraCycle
Check your energy providers have set your community for a “green tariff”
Organise a give and take event
Audit your light bulbs and switch to LED
Start a community garden Earth Easy
Plant trees and protect forest with JTree through donating, registering the trees you plant or joining a planting project
Start a rewilding project using one of JTree’s rewilding resources
Think about the benefits of a hedge to your community and protect local hedgerows
Start composting!
Setup water collection facilities
Challenge your community to go non-disposal for 1 month
Create a dedicated space for wildflowers including at home
Take part in a conservation project
Support an environmental campaign, nationally or internationally
Join the Queen’s Green Canopy tree planting project
Make an insect hotel, individually or with the younger members of your community
Install a wormery, individually or with the younger members of your community
Go Meat-free for 1 week/month
Campaign for more tree cover in your area
Protect a Green Space with Fields in Trust
Create a B-Line with Buglife
Buy only local ingredients for two weeks
Switch to seasonal vegetables
Sign up to be a Backyard Nature Guardian and pledge to protect nature where you live
Take the Billion Seed Challenge