We are catching up with the end of No Impact Week. (Just because we missed most of this week, doesn't mean we shouldn't use the guide and organize our own communities.) The No Impact Week Guide focuses each day of the week on an element of our impact. Sunday examines consumption: Monday looks at trash; Tuesday it's transportation; Wednesday it's food and Thursday it's energy. The week culminates in an "eco-shabbath" which looks considerably like the Jewish Shabbat.
I saw No Impact Man (the movie) when Rabbi Steve Greenberg brought it to the Hazon Rosh Hashana retreat at Pearlstone in MD. Steve actually knows Colin Beavan (aka No Impact Man) and talked to him considerably about his "No Impact" project. When Colin described his year attempting to have no impact by (among other things) not buying anything new, not using electricity, not traveling in any motorized way, Steve pointed out that religious Jews do all those things every week! Here's an interesting perspective...
What would Shabbat be like if we focused not only on community and spirituality, but on the repair of the world in a very real and practical way?
Click here for the No Impact Week Guide Book.
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