Climate Change and the Jewish Community: How we can make a difference

The Jewish Sustainability Initiative and the National Council of Jewish Women Present:

A panel discussion and screening of the inspirational short film, Regenerating Australia by award winning director, Damon Gameau. Discover perspectives on the importance of taking actions now to combat climate change and learn ways that we as individuals - and as part of the Jewish community - can make a difference.

Panelists:

Professor Danielle Celermajer, Deputy Director, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney

Jimmy Thomas, Sustainability Projects Officer, Woollahra Council

Jessica Harrison, Jewish Community Organiser, Sydney Alliance

Refreshments at 6:30pm; Panel discussion and film starting at 7:00pm

About the panelists:

Danielle Celermajer is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies Justice project. A longtime human rights scholar and activist, in recent years she has turned her attention to injustices and violence against the more than human. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires with a multispecies community, she began writing about a new crime of our age, Omnicide. Her latest book, Summertime (Penguin Random House, 2021) was written in recognition of the critical urgency of conveying the complex conceptual recognition of the multispecies harms of the climate catastrophe in ways that can provoke affect and hence action.

Jimmy Thomas is the Sustainability Projects Officer at Woollahra Council. In this role he is responsible for planning, coordinating and implementing projects across Council departments to achieve Council’s environment and sustainability goals. Recent projects he has delivered include LED and lighting efficiency, renewable energy and solar PV, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, water efficiency and stormwater management.  

Jess Harrison works as the Jewish Community Organiser for the Sydney Alliance. The Sydney Alliance is a coalition of diverse civil society organisations who work together for the common good- to create a more just and sustainable city. In her role, Jess brings together diverse Jewish people together from all across Greater Sydney to take action on the issues that affect them. She is proud to support Jewish people taking action on issues like affordable housing, clean and affordable energy and issues relating to people seeking asylum. She was raised in the Jewish Progressive Movement in Sydney where she served as Federal Chairperson of the youth movement 'Netzer Australia' and is a member of North Shore Temple Emmanuel. She combines her passions of building power in our communities and the creative arts in her double Bachelor of Arts and Fine Arts that she is currently studying. 

Support provided by the Woollahra Council Community Environmental Grants Program