Why Now?

The task at hand is to rally Jewish communities worldwide to make a difference on climate change in a way that strengthens Jewish life and helps make a better world for all.

On November 2nd 2009 The Alliance for Religions and Conservation , ARC, is hosting a program for the world's faiths to present their plans for generational change. ARC has asked Hazon to manage the program for the Jewish faith, and your signature will strengthen the support of the plan at the November conferece.

The medium-term goal is that by September 2015, six years from now (at the end of the next sabbatical year in the Jewish calendar), Jewish communities worldwide will have integrated sustainability into the fabric of all that they do.

In the short-term, the UN Climate Change Conference takes place this December in Copenhagen.

By the time of the Copenhagen Conference we hope to have galvanized worldwide support. Jewish institutions will be able to utilize this energy to integrate environmental education, action and advocacy over the following years.

[1] Why 600,000? It's a large number; and in Jewish tradition there's a special blessing if 600,000 people come together. But what's most important is that this be a really large number of people - to make plain to Jewish leaders and the wider world that Jewish people care strongly about these issues.