The Hazon CSA community in Elkins Park (Philadelpha, PA) hosted another outstanding Tu Bishvat seder this year. (Click here to see photos from their seder last year.) Their organizers shared this list of individual commitments that folks wrote down for the year, to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community, a healthier and more sustainable world for all. May they serve as an inspiration for all of us in the coming season!

Leave your own resolutions in the comments.

• Go outside more
• Take shorter showers
• Purchase more organic produce – for our health, for the health of the environment, to support the people who grow the food
• Use less water bottles and no plastic bags
• Be less wasteful of Hazon CSA food I don’t know how to cook
• Support COEJL
• Support paper recycling at my synagogue
• Plant a fig tree
• Start a CSA at my university
• Plan ahead to reduce/avoid car trips
• Work in my community garden
• Find beauty in all those and all that surrounds me
• Don’t drive as much on weekends: ride bike, walk, combine errands, don’t go
• Buy car that gets better mileage
• Reduce family waste by 50%
• Free the hikers
• Plant more trees
• Consume sustainable meat only
• Grow my own vegetables
• Pick up trash I see on the ground
• Buy more organic produce, eat only free range chicken
• Plant a tree
• Reuse grocery bags
• No plastic bags
• Support sustainable seafood, join a CSS
• Lower thermostat in winter
• Recycle more in the office
• Turn lights off
• Most successful Arts in the Park ever
• More green building laws
• Reduce, reuse, recycle everyday, promote same to others
• Use ecologically sound cleaning products
• Reduce carbon footprint – use less fossil fuel-based energy
• Recycle relentlessly
• Create a garden free of groundhogs, celebrate the bountiful harvest
• Increase family involvement in social justice
• Plant more food to eat
• Plant a fruit tree
• Help replenish the ocean – join a CSS
• Attend sustainability film series at Ambler theater, become more educated about sustainability issues, actions and advocacy
• Start community garden at my synagogue
• Participate on sustainability committee at my synagogue
• Promote the Jewish Climate Change Campaign