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What if We Stopped Waiting? Climate Action Now
I stumbled into learning about climate change about five years ago, while in the midst of Rabbinic School. Nothing beforehand could have...
Jun 3, 20196 min read
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Climate Change and Consciousness
My step-grandfather, the last of my grandparents, died on the day I left home to get on a plane for the Climate Change and Consciousness...
May 7, 20195 min read
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Interfaith Sukkot Celebration and Protest
From October 19, 2016. I believe that we are in the midst of another spiritual awakening. The North Dakota Pipeline, with all of its...
Apr 7, 20193 min read
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Pilgrimage Retrospective: Carrying Extra Weight
My best friend and I collapsed into sleep around 4 a.m. on Sunday morning, June 17th. At 7a.m., my alarm woke us up. I was behind...
Aug 31, 20182 min read
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Pilgrimage Retrospective
As I start to "settle-in," in Metro-Detroit, my most surreal feeling is that I just feel normal, as if the two months of making myself...
Aug 31, 20182 min read
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Detroit: This is Real and I am Completely Unprepared
I will be in Detroit tomorrow. If you are in the neighborhood, please join me and my family for dinner at Clark Park around 6p.m. This is...
Aug 13, 20184 min read
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Why a Pilgrimage to Honor the Earth
Over a decade ago now, I was sitting in a Parshah HaShavua (weekly Torah Portion) class and my teacher asked the following: Why are human...
Aug 6, 20183 min read
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Earth in Search of Humanity: Adamah in Search of Adam
"The Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die." And the Lord...
Jul 23, 20183 min read
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I Will Do Anything To Protect You
When I saw my first baby niece, Aviva, I was overwhelmed by a sense of awe, and a kind of warrior's energy. I knew right then and there,...
Jul 16, 20184 min read
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A BONNIE-FIED GOOD TALE
I am very lucky to have a good number of clergy friends. Yesterday morning I was trying to get a hold of a certain Church in the town of...
Jul 13, 20183 min read
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Strangers: Welcoming the Danger
As my body acclimates to the new demands I'm putting on her (mostly), my biggest challenge has been emotional. As an introvert,...
Jul 9, 20183 min read
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Climate Perspectives: Grief, Addiction, Paradigm Shifts, and Cognitive Dissonance
This journey has been so full, already, while also filled with so many gaps, as well as tremendous awe and physical pain. I want to share...
Jul 9, 20185 min read
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The Torah of Trees
Trees are magnificent creatures. I've known this for a long time, in theory - Did you know that they not only drink water like you and I,...
Jun 27, 20182 min read
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Radical Joy for Hard Times
This morning I started wearing-in some new boots as well as trying out new walking sticks to prepare for my journey. Both took some...
Jun 8, 20182 min read
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Pilgrimage to Detroit
I think that my summer plans to hike from Boston to Detroit are bigger than WalkingHome and bigger than bringing awareness to...
May 28, 20183 min read
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A Story about Climate Change that Actually Opens Your Heart
I was at a Climate Story Telling event tonight. I expected to be infirmed, I was hoping to network, but I was touched and saw something I...
May 23, 20181 min read
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Resilience and Empowerment Map
Challenge 1of24.: LIVING MORE GRATEFULLY How can I deepen my understanding and practice of gratitude, for body, heart, mind, people & Web...
May 22, 20181 min read
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How long does it take plastic to decompose?
I took a tour of the local recycling plant today, managed by one of the custodians and handy men at the synagogue where I work. Ed is an...
May 22, 20181 min read
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May 22, 20180 min read
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I can only change myself
"As my father stretches to understand my journey I realize that maybe you can't change the world by your actions alone, but you can...
May 8, 20182 min read
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