Environmentalist Traces Judaism's Ecological Roots

From: Forward | Date: May 13, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Baruchin, Aliyah
Forward
05-13-2005
For most Americans, the word "ecology" conjures images of action and
activism. Since the 1960s, the environmental movement has offered tangible
ways to help repair the planet: conserve, recycle, write your
representatives about reducing emissions and reining in corporate
polluters.

Ellen Bernstein would never argue with those goals. Yet she's the first to
admit that her own environmental work has always taken up a different
challenge. For more than two decades, Bernstein has been trying to change
not the way people dispose of their trash so much as the way they ...

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