Rough Drafts

Joelle Novey, Director of Interfaith Power & Light (D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia), talks about climate grief, Jewish approaches to land ownership, and how shmita teachings can inform the climate movement.

Show Notes

Shmita and the Climate Crisis,

About Joelle 
Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA)
other related work

About Interfaith Power & Light
 
References
Joelle's book
Rabbi Fred Sherlinger Dobb
Environmental Torah
Dobb’s source sheet to inform a Jewish response to climate change
when we can violate Shabbat to save a human life 
5782 is a Shmita year
Faith community land acknowledgements 
Jewish Brohaut (?, food prayer) 

Quotes 
I think we have to have weekday consciousness in one pocket and Shmita consciousness in the other pocket.

We have to make time to release and restore.

I am feeling grief that is grounded in tremendous love -- and then suddenly, with my heart open and my hands open, that's a tremendously powerful thing. Right? It's like -- I'm gonna to be a warrior in the world for the things I love...



Audio processing and improving by Jeffrey Haley. 

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