85 Nachalat Binyamin St.
Tel Aviv
Israel
- Environment/Sustainable development
The Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership was established to lead Israel to become a society based on renewal of the values of justice and caring for the future of the land and its inhabitants.
We envisage a society where real progress and growth are defined in terms of ecological health and social justice, where we all participate in the making of the decisions that affect us through fair and transparent process, where values of community, common destiny and compassion are the basis for our actions.
Through its programs, the Heschel Center trains leading individuals from across the spectrum of Israeli society to become the social-environmental vanguard, implementing this innovative vision of an ecologically and socially sustainable future based on values we inherited from our forebears.
The Environmental Fellows Program, which is the backbone of the Center's work, is a year-long program designed to train a cadre of leaders from throughout Israeli society to be effective agents of social change. The program meets once a week throughout the year laying out the principles of sustainability and focusing on strategic thinking about systemic change.
Other main projects include: the Green School Network, which, in partnership with the Karev Educational Initiative, develops programs that support schools in Israel to heighten environmental literacy and "action competence"; the Center for Local Sustainability, which aims to advance the capacity for sustainability in Israeli local government by raising awareness and providing training, tools, and support networks for local government officials, advocates, architects, planners and mayors, to develop pilot projects in their communities; and the Media Project, intended to raise the quality and quantity of environmental reporting in Israel, through an integrated series of initiatives to engage key journalists in the sustainability agenda and issues, and through the annual awarding The Pratt Prize for Environmental Journalism in recognition of cutting-edge environmental reporting at the national, local, and community levels.