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Published in Announcements on Dec 5, 2007
The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday about a campaign to encourage Jews around the world to light one less candle for Hanukka to help the environment.
The founders of the Green Hanukka campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.
However, everyone is not every is happy about the campaign.
Rabbi Benny Lau of Jerusalem's Ramban Congregation, who is himself an environmental activist, praised the good intentions of the people behind the campaign. But he said the environmentalists should be trying to reach out to observant Jews instead of running campaigns that turn them away.
You can read all about it here.
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  1. Jon Daley says:
    12/06,2007, at 13:46
    Visit Jon Daley Based on my calculations, each of those million Jewish folks can either not light the candle, or walk 0.03 miles instead of driving, and will accomplish the same amount of savings to the environment. This article came up in my RSS reader just after a link to "Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day", and Heather thought that perhaps this was also supposed to be a humorous article.