Liz
Piper-Goldberg, fifth-year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), has been passionate
about the environment since grade school. As a teenager, she encouraged
members of her community to stop using incandescent light bulbs. For
Piper-Goldberg, it was like a light bulb went off — a compact
fluorescent light bulb, that is.“I realized how a simple change at the most basic level of our lives can translate into big savings for us, and for the environment,” said Piper-Goldberg, 27.
Today, she’s bringing simple, significant changes to the HUC-JIR’s New York campus. Thanks to a grant from the Gendler Grapevine Project, Piper-Goldberg helped spearhead the Greening Initiative, a project to revamp the campus’ food system in order to minimize waste. The project will launch this fall.
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