Since 1983, the Alliance for Sustainability has been working to create a healthy future for the Earth and all of its inhabitants.

With our new home in the Hillel Center at the University of Minnesota, we are expanding our efforts regarding Judaism, the environment and sustainability. Our hope is to create a center that will address the needs of Jews of all ages in helping to create a sustainable future.

Please join us as a volunteer, intern, Board member or participant and let us know if you'd like to participate in any of the following programs:

• Helping to prepare a newsletter
• Assisting with our one-of-a-kind Sustainability Resource Center
• Helping to develop our web site
• Being an intern or volunteer

The Center will have a Resource Center with relevant documents, web site, new publications, educational events, travel tours to Israel, and other resources for students, faculty and the public. This Center could be an important tool for reaching the Jewish community and offer exciting opportunities for deepening Jewish knowledge.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas! You can send them to us at iasa@mtn.org.

Here are some links to get you started in learning more about how Judaism and Earth stewardship are connected.

• Global Scorching and Pharaoh’s Advisors By Rabbi Arthur Waskow, June 2002, To read this article in its entirety link to www.mtn.org/iasa/waskow.html.

• COEJL Board Statement on Energy Policy and National Security -- November 2001
• Rabbis Across Nation Call for "Moral Reflection" on Energy Policy and Global Warming -- July 31, 2001
• "Religious leaders endorse statement on global warming" by Tom Meersman, Star Tribune, February 23, 2001
• Video resources available for rent -- Keeping the Earth and God's Creation & Global Warming
• Olive Trees for Peace Learn more about and get involved with the project to replant uprooted olive trees in Palestinian villages
• Photos from the COEJL Conference, March 2001
• Terry Gips' comments from the news conference on global climate change, February 22, 2001
• Climate Change: A Matter of Faith Interfaith Global Climate Change Statement, September 2000
• Resolution on Energy and Environment Priorities for the New Administration and 107th Congress, Adopted by the JCPA 2001 Plenum, Monday February 26, 2001
• Paul Gorman on Faith and Environmental Stewardship
• "New Message From the Pulpit: Ecology Must Be Joined With Theology" by Linda Ashton
• Transforming Passover: Traditional Jewish holiday often tailored to modern concerns by Maja Beckstrom
• Ten Things a Synagogue Community Can Do to Protect Creation
• In Search of Serenity: Taking a Spiritual Time-Out by Terry Gips
• Eco-Kosher - "Can I care about the earth and still eat my lox, bagels and cream cheese?" lecture by Terry Gips
• Kibbutz Lotan - An ecological Jewish community in Israel
• Terry Gips Remarks at Hazon Cross-Country Bike Event, Minneapolis Jewish Community Center, July 23, 2000