
For your convenience, we have divided our resource links into 5 categories: Jewish, Easy Steps, Maryland Local, Household, & Synagogue Resources.
Jewish
- Pearlstone Conference & Retreat Center
- Kayam Farm at Pearlstone- Baltimore’s Jewish Educational Farm
- The Associated
- Hazon -creating a healthier, more sustainable Jewish community
- COEJL -Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life
- UJA Federation Green Guide
- Shalom Center -Green Menorah Covenant
- Neot-Kedumim-The Biblical Landscape Reserve in Israel
- Big Green Jewish
- Canfei Nesharim
- http://www.svivaisrael.org/
- Greening Reform Judaism
- Tu B’Shevat Seder Toolkit
- JNF & Green Faith
- Jewcology (http://www.jewcology.com/) is a project of graduates of ROI (http://roicommunity.org), who have come together to create a resource for the entire Jewish-environmental community. Jewcology incorporates collaboration from a wide range of Jewish environmental leaders and organizations worldwide. This project was funded by the ROI Innovation Fund. The long-term goal of this project is to build a multi-denominational, multi-generational, regionally diverse community of Jewish environmental activists, who are learning from one another and from an expanding set of Jewish-environmental resources, how to educate their communities about our Jewish responsibility to protect the environment.
- Teva Learning Center
Local Synagogues
- Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
- Beth Am
- Beth El Congregation
- Beth Israel Congregation and Religious School
- Beth Shalom of Columbia
- Beth Tfiloh Congregation & High School
- Beit Tikvah
- Bolton Street Synagogue
- Chevrei Tzedek
- Chizuk Amuno Congregation
- Temple Emanuel
- Oheb Shalom
- Netivot Shalom
- Har Sinai Congregation
Seders
- http://www.hillel.org/jewish/holidays/tubshevat
- http://judaism.about.com/od/conservativejudaismfaq/a/dov_tubshvat.htm
- Environmental Pesach Model Seder
- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Environment/swartz.html
Bar/Bat Mitzvah suggestions
- http://jrf.org/files/Sustainability.pdf
- http://members.aol.com/mitzvah99/mypage/
- http://www.jnf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=opnrWhat
- Green Dreidle Project
Easy Steps
- Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
- http://www.jnf.org/goneutral/carbonCalc.html
- www.terrapass.com
- www.goodenergy.org.il/len
- http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=774
- www.environmentaldefense.org
- www.grist.org
- www.newdream.org
- Green America
- Sustainable Synagogues Initiative (Conservative Movement)
- * The Eco Campus (http://ecocamp.us/) is an environmental virtual 3D world for Tweens – children and teens aged 8-15 – containing videos, games and community features that highlight CleanTech innovations and change the environmental habits of young people in and out of school. The Eco Campus gives children, parents and educators an interactive environment to share sound environmental practices, experiences and resources.
Maryland Local Green Websites
- http://www.baltimorecity.gov/government/planning/sustainability/
- Maryland Energy Administration
- Paper Retriever
- Recycling in Baltimore County
- Baltimore Recycling Wiki- learn or contribute
- Appalachian Mountain Club
- Baltimore Green Works
- Chesapeake Climate Action Network
- Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park
- Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks and Landscapes
- Gunpowder Valley Conservancy
- Irvine Nature Center
- Mountain Club of Maryland
- Sierra Club
- Simplicity Matters
- Baltimore County Commission on Environmental Quality
- Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management (DEPRM)
- Maryland League of Conservation Voters
- Master Gardeners of Baltimore
- baltogreenmap.org
- www.envirelation.com
- Marylanders Plant Trees
- Food and Faith, Center for Livable Future www.jhsph.edu/clf/
- Chesapeake Covenant Community www.chesapeakecovenant.org/
Household
- Home energy inspections
- www.greenbuilders.com
- www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html
- BGE Home Energy Check-up
- Find out where you can donate used but unwanted goods
CFL Light Bulbs
- http://www.coejl.org/climatechange/cc_cfl.php
- http://www.gwipl.org/
- http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=cal.showPledge
Native Tree Plantings
Alternative Energies
- Standard Solar, Gaithersburg, MD – Lee Bristol
- Chesapeake Solar, Columbia, MD
- Aurora Energy
- findsolar.com – for a complete listing in our area.
- Capital Sun Group – Al Nunez/ 202-270-5000
- Maryland Clean Energy Center
Synagogue Resources
- http://www.jrf.org/Sustainable_Synagogue_Resources
- http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=small_business.sb_congregations
- Biodegradable disposable dishware
- USGBC (United States Green Building Council
- http://www.fjmc.org/Activities/ShomreiHaaretz.aspx
- http://greensimchaguide.org/
- http://www.jufj.org/green_just_celebrations
