The Global Warming resolution calls on sisterhoods to take steps to: provide information about climate change; make their synagogues and homes as "green" as possible; urge government officials to support the benchmarks for reducing carbon emissions set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; fund research into alternative fuels; and implement conservation efforts.

RECOMMENDED SISTERHOOD PROGRAMMING AND ACTION

• Set up a program for your sisterhood and congregation. Include scientists working on global warming at your local university who concur with the WRJ global warming resolution, environmentalists, and your congregational rabbi.
   
• For ideas on holding a Jewish-based environmental event, check the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, COEJL, website that provides a speakers list and programming guide, www.coejl.org/~coejlor/speakers/general.php. Scroll down to access the speakers list, either by name or state. The list includes Canadian speakers.
  
  
• The organization Hazon develops programming on the Jewish food movement, the ramifications of food choices for us, our families, and the world around us. To learn about Hazon’s food-related programming, go to www.hazon.org and click on “food.” 

• Another excellent source for background information and speakers is the Sierra Club: www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming. Click on “select a place,” then your state – one or more field offices will be identified.  Call the local field offices for information about speakers.
  

• Develop a sisterhood project to “green” your temple and homes. Join COEJL’s Light Among the Nations Climate Change Campaign as an easy way to take action on global warming. This involves purchasing energy efficient CFL light bulbs to sell at any programs you hold, in the Judaica Shop, or at community events. Urge your congregational leadership to participate in the COEJL Greening Synagogues program, see www.coejl.org/~coejlor/greensyn/gstoc.php for information. 
   
• Take action as urged by WRJ and other like-minded organizations.