Focus: Special Projects, Investor Education, Voluntary Carbon Markets
Betsy Teutsch, Director for Special Projects, has been a prolific Judaica artist, entrepreneur, and community builder for over 30 years. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, she studied at Brandeis University and Hebrew Union College where she trained as a religious educator. For the past 22 years she has lived in Mt. Airy, a socially progressive neighborhood in Philadelphia, where she raised her two children with her husband David, a leading ethicist, and has been involved in a myriad of local initiatives.
Betsy launched Philadelphia’s www.PhillyFreeCycle.org and is a founder of Mt. Airy Greening Network (MAGNet) and the new Sustainable Mt. Airy. Her blog, www.moneychangesthings.blogspot.com promotes Socially Responsible Investing, Consuming, and Sustainability and has attracted 1000’s of visitors. She is on the Board and Executive Committee of the Neighborhood Interfaith Movement, where she co-chairs Sustaining Creation: the NIM Environmental Network. She works with Kiva.org and writes a weekly column for To Till and To Tend for COEJL: Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.
Betsy’s artistry is online at www.kavanahcards.com. She is the mother of Zach, a union financial educator, and Nomi, a college student who this summer will work with Darfuri refugees in Israel.
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