Hazon Bike Ride
Feb. 27th, 2007 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leftyjewI'm riding 50 miles to raise money for a Jewish environmentalist organization. You can either sponsor me or sign up to ride yourself! If you can't ride, you can also be on crew, be a cheerleader or contribute your skillz in some other way.
Hazon does really great work creating an environmentally-healthier Jewish community, one part of creating of an environmentally-healthier human community. Half of the money raised will go towards Hazon's Jewish environmentalist activities in the US and Israel (like helping community-based sustainable agriculture and creating awareness within the Jewish community about the advantages of organic food) and half will go to DC area Jewish environmental organizations, like the new Pearlstone organic farm, Teva, and Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School's program to promote reusable materials in their food service.
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leftyjew," you ask, "why does this only help Jewish causes?" It's effectively the principle of acting locally to create global change. I can't be everywhere at once and I can't help every cause. But I can touch my local world and turn that into a better place. Any contribution to environmental sustainability in any community affects the worldwide environment. Since I consider myself an active member of the DC Jewish community, seeing my community damage the environment hurts me, and seeing it create sustainability gives me some pride. With this, I am trying to spend my energy (50 miles worth!) creating awareness and helping to green my community hoping that ripples ensue and that there are others committed to their communities.
Hazon does really great work creating an environmentally-healthier Jewish community, one part of creating of an environmentally-healthier human community. Half of the money raised will go towards Hazon's Jewish environmentalist activities in the US and Israel (like helping community-based sustainable agriculture and creating awareness within the Jewish community about the advantages of organic food) and half will go to DC area Jewish environmental organizations, like the new Pearlstone organic farm, Teva, and Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School's program to promote reusable materials in their food service.
"But
leftyjew," you ask, "why does this only help Jewish causes?" It's effectively the principle of acting locally to create global change. I can't be everywhere at once and I can't help every cause. But I can touch my local world and turn that into a better place. Any contribution to environmental sustainability in any community affects the worldwide environment. Since I consider myself an active member of the DC Jewish community, seeing my community damage the environment hurts me, and seeing it create sustainability gives me some pride. With this, I am trying to spend my energy (50 miles worth!) creating awareness and helping to green my community hoping that ripples ensue and that there are others committed to their communities.
