In honor of Tu B'shvat, today's eJewishPhilanthropy.com has a nice post from Rabbi Eliav Bock, director of Ramah Outdoor Adventure, on our relationship with the natural world -- and a good commercial for summer camp generally.  It's also accompanied by a cute video. 

He writes: 

"The holiday of Tu B’Shvat is intended to make us stop and consider our relationship to the earth. At a Tu B’shvat seder, we sit with friends, sing songs about nature, eat special fruits that represent an element within nature, drink hues of wine that represents the changing seasons and discuss how we can protect our natural environment. In recent years, with the rising awareness of humanity’s deleterious impact on the natural world, Tu B’shvat sedarim seem to be ever more popular.

And while celebrating this holiday is a good start, as a camp director, Iknow that we can take the lessons of Tu B’shvat and apply them to our summer camp lives. At Ramah Outdoor Adventure, we have created a program with the specific goal of reconnecting our youth with the natural world around them. We have made environmental living an integral part of the summer program. From waking up with the sun, to living in a technology free zone with limited electricity, to eating sustainable food at meals, our goal at camp is to spend a few weeks living intentionally in the natural world."

You can check out the full post here.