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Ancient Roots At the Teva Learning Center, elementary school children encounter the natural world as they explore the woods, learn where their food comes from, and take responsibility for waste. At Adamah, a three-month environmental leadership training program, a small community of twenty-somethings engage in organic farming, sustainable living, and contemplative spiritual practice. These future leaders of the Jewish community offer an inspiring model to the Teva students. Together they are renewing the ecological wisdom inherent in Judaism and building a genuine commitment to tikkun olam, healing the world. The RENEWAL Project has been designed to make the documentary and its inspiring stories available to people and organizations who want to be a part of this growing movement to protect life on our planet and reverse the damage that humans have done to the environment. On this website, www.renewalproject.net, you can learn about how RENEWAL is being used by communities across America to help build the religious-environmental movement. It is also a place for you to connect with others who are doing this important work and for you to share stories about your own experience.

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The People’s Climate March on September 21 put increasing pressure on world leaders meeting at the UN Climate Summit to make policy changes that will drive down greenhouse gas emissions sooner rather than too late.

Rhea Suh brings decades of experience with environmental campaigns and organizational management to her new role as president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the nation’s leading environmental groups.

Each year tens of million of migratory birds “overwinter” in the Canadian Boreal forest, a vast tract of mostly uninhabited coniferous woodlands and wetlands stretching from Newfoundland to the Yukon. The area makes up some 60 percent of Canada’s total land mass, and serves as the winter home for more than half of America’s avian population. But environmentalists are worried about the impact of increasing “tar sands” oil development there and the impact it might have on wildlife populations continent-wide.

Has the time finally come to reconsider geothermal power as a replacement for fracked natural gas?

On Sunday, September 21, 400,000 environmentalists took to the streets of NYC to rally world leaders meeting at the United Nations later this week to agree on significant cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

While processed foods get a lot of bad press lately for their potential ill health effects, red meat remains a bigger evil than ever as researchers uncover new reasons to avoid it.

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, landmark legislation that established a way for Americans to protect their most pristine wildlands for future generations. While the legislation currently protects some 110 million acres of wilderness from coast-to-coast from overuse and development, lots of our wildlands are still under siege from development and other pressures. The non-profit Wilderness Society has chosen seven such spots across the country in dire need of help