Green Committee

Environmental Responsibility:
Caring for Our Planet
The Green Committee welcomes all who are interested in improving how we take care of the earth and each other.  As part of tikkun olam we focus on activities that change how we treat our planet - acts that connect us more with the places we inhabit, the plants and animals with whom we share these spaces and with each other.

Have questions or want to get involved? Contact Green Committee Chairperson Carla Ellern.
                                                                                                                 Figs on TI's trees (photo by Jevera Temsky)
Green Committee Activities

• Sponsored a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program
• Changed to an almost entirely compostable system for synagogue events
• Created a rain garden
• Installed permeable paving in the TI parking lot
• Created conservation landscape on our 16th Street entrance
• Added native plants and trees that attract pollinators and slow down runoff into our waterways, with the help of DDOEE and Casey Trees

What's next?

• Becoming a National Wildlife Federation Sacred Grounds synagogue 
• Supporting the TI solar roof project