Climate Change Crisis

The Coalition for the Environment and Jewish Life and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs have launched a nationwide campaign to address the climate change crisis. In keeping with United Synagogue’s 2003 resolution on the environment, we are enthusiastically supporting “A Light Among the Nations,” a modern-day commemoration of Hanukkah, the festival of lights.

A significant part of the campaign will include helping congregations, Jewish institutions, and individuals buy and install energy-efficient, cost-effective compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs during the week of Hanukkah 2006, as part of moving the Jewish community and the country forward in our understanding and support of energy conservation.

Our message is as easy as changing a light bulb: If you could conserve energy and help stop global warming in one simple step, wouldn’t you? CFLs use 75 percent less energy than incandescent light bulbs. This means less production of greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and toxic waste. If every North American household would replace one bulb with a CFL, that would have the same effect as removing one million cars from the road.

For more background information on global warning, click here.