The Seders

(Jon) With Shabbat and the Seders, we're now catching back up with the blogging. (here's a little secret: we're writing this on April 23, not April 20!)

First thing, we forgot to give a link to the list of daily actions. So . . . here 'tis: http://bnaijeshurun.org/documents/carbon-footprint-handout.pdf

You can find an action to reduce your carbon footprint for each day until Shavuot at that link.

Now, back to our heroes' attempt to do something green each day.

On April 20, the 2d Seder, this list suggests we recite the 10 Plagues of Global Warming. Admittedly, Darby and I cobbled these plagues together from a number of sources. But we were able to work them into our Haggadah pretty easily. Darby said that when we read "drought," "food shortages," and "war," it made her think about how climate change isn't just about changes to the Earth, but that people are already being affected directly. Last June, for example, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon blamed the violence in Darfur on climate change. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined 40% over the past 20 years in sub-Saharan Africa. With this drought, there wasn't enough food or water, which led to fighting among the people trying to make do with fewer resources.

(brief commercial for Rabbi Weiss: he is one of Cleveland's key leaders on both climate change and the effort to help the Darfur region. Thank you, Rabbi!)


That's it for "today." See you "tomorrow."