Comments on: Environmental Dissidence

By: Our Somewhat Environmental Water-Saving Purim Project- A Mother in Israel | A Mother in Israel

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:21:22 +0000

[...] Each family was to prepare a mask in honor of the upcoming holiday of Purim. To continue with the environmental theme, the masks were to be made of completely recyclable materials. Here are some of the [...]

By: mominisrael

mominisrael — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:32:11 +0000

Ariella: I think things will start to change soon.
Leora: Definitely related. Ugh.
I-D: You never know, something might sink in.

By: Ilana-Davita

Ilana-Davita — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:37:55 +0000

Whenever I make too many photocopies , I try to keep the sheets and hand them over to the students for rough paper wishfully thinking some of them will become environment-conscious.

By: Leora

Leora — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:32:41 +0000

Sort of related: when my son was in nursery school, one of the environmentally-conscious moms organized a planting hour on a Sunday morning at the local Y (now gone due to vicious local politics and poor financial management). The nursery school director brought Dunkin Donuts and juice, as though the little kids couldn’t survive for one hour without eating some junk food.

By: Here in HP, a Highland Park, New Jersey blog » Haveil Havalim Lots to Read Edition

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:08:26 +0000

[...] in Israel posted Environmental Dissidence at her new location: http://amotherinisrael.com/. She writes: “I’d appreciate it if [...]

By: Ariella Brown

Ariella Brown — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:07:26 +0000

While they never claimed to be concerned about the environment, I also get annoyed with the amount of waste produced by the school or their required supplies. For example, my second grader’s teacher requires a whole compositon notebook just to write homework in. Remember memo pads? Well, that’s not good enough. We have to waste a whole notebook and write only 2 lines using only one side of the paper. A great lesson in conserving resources, don’t you think. And teachers object to recycling notebooks that still have 80% of their full 100 sheets untouched. They also try to make it impossible by requiring specific colors, or even going out and buying all the supplies they want in the colors they want and then billing the parents for these items.

By: mominisrael

mominisrael — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:23:06 +0000

Oh well. . .

By: sylvia_rachel

sylvia_rachel — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:11:39 +0000

I experienced a similar cognitive dissonance during a Tu B’Shevat event at my daughter’s Sunday school when we were asked to write down things we could do over the next year to help the environment. On leaves and fruits cut out of (not reused or recycled) construction paper. Which we were then asked to place on a tree (also cut out of probably-not-reused-or-recycled paper) taped to the wall…