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Pope Francis Fires Up Future Faith Leaders for Creation Care

Press Release: The Pope has taken a stand on climate change with a forceful position paper that spells out how faith groups must take action to protect the environment. The world’s faithful...

Sewing Seeds, Building Trust, Seeking Peace

Blog: Siiri Bigalke - June marked the third month of a new track in our Women's Faith and Ecology project. This initiative brings together women of Jerusalem to find commonality through...

Palestinian Muslims and Israeli Jews Unite to Break their Mutual Fast Day Together

Press Release: On Tuesday, July 15th, hundreds of Palestinian Muslims and Israeli Jews united to break their mutual fast day together at thirteen events throughout Israel and the West Bank.

Grüne Rabbis im Kampf für die Umwelt

News Coverage: Schöpfung, Glaube, Umweltschutz: Immer mehr Israelis verzichten religiös begründet auf Fleisch. Und immer häufiger treten auch Rabbiner für Umweltschutzprojekte ein. Zwei von ihnen in Jerusalem nennen sich selbst "grüne Rabbis"....

Methane to Energy, No Plastic Bags, Green Globes

Blog: Elana Frank - On June 17th, four Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD) staff and interns attended the Knesset Environmental Day put on in the Israeli Parliament (Knesset). We were...

Jewish Food Justice Fellows visit from California

News Coverage: ‘There are a lot of startup programs that are helping cultures within Israel, such as amazing community garden projects used as tools for economic empowerment.’

Meeting the ‘Green Patriarch’ in Jerusalem

Blog: We are waiting for that moment when our consultations, dialogues, and steps toward unity become expressions of truepeace [...]

Wake-up Call: Jerusalem Water Contamination

Blog: Jerusalem’s ancient roots certainly had a spiritual context, but were also tied to access to some of the region’s most precious resource: water. [...]

Gathering and Gardening over Watermelon and Zatar

Blog: On Wednesday April 30th, a group of women from Muslim, Jewish, and Christian members of the larger Jerusalem community met for a day of gardening, conversation, [...]

Going into Nature, Within Jerusalem

Blog: In the spring of 2014, The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development is offering open-enrollment ecological tours in and around Jerusalem. These tours [...]

Partnering in Good Faith Jordan River Seminar

Blog: The Jordan River holds religious significance for Jews, Muslims, and Christians, which served to unite an interfaith group of clergy and [...]

‘Crossing the Jordan’ links faith, ecology

News Coverage: An interfaith outing to the Jordan River stresses the need to advocate for the rehabilitation of the historic waterway among faith communities.

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