Carole Caplan
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Carole is proud to be a past president of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Ill., and to have helped build their LEED-Platinum building as the "greenest" house of worship in America. As a Wexner Fellow, Carole has learned much about the importance of leadership and it’s role in sustainable community. Carole is also a proud GreenFaith Fellow and sees herself as an advocate of both spirituality and environmentalism, lecturing to whomever will listen on the importance of stewarding the environment as time-sensitive spiritual work.

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Building the Sacred Inside and Out: Green Architecture for Houses of Worship

Posted April 26, 2011 | 22:00:52 (EST)

It was in early 2008 that my Jewish community moved back into our new spiritual home. Our old building had long suffered from poor design, flooding and roofing issues and from a heating/cooling system that worked only parts of the building at any given time. After much research and discussion,...

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