This page offers links that will allow you to discover or help others learn just how much the Torah values ecology and the environment!


Websites

Torah Flora
Torah Flora is a site devoted to biblical ethnobotany, or the study of plants and nature in Torah and Jewish tradition. The author of this site uses information about these plants to shed light on their use in prophetic metaphor, and studying the plants involved in performing various mitzvot in order to better appreciate and perform those mitzvot. Contains essays, resource listing, and educational events listing.

Uri L’Tzedek
This organization offers a vast selection of Jewish sourcesheets on activism, social justice, as well as the environment. All of the sources are produced in Hebrew and English.

Big Green Jewish
BGJ offers links to other sources on Judaism and the environment. It also features select materials on climate change.

 

Articles

The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis by Rabbi Gil Student