Rabbi Daniel Swartz serves as the Coordinator for Greater Washington
Interfaith Power and Light, a new project of the Churches¹ Center on
Theology and Public Policy and the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan
Washington.  GWIPL works with congregations and other religious institutions
in the Washington area to address moral and practical dimensions to energy
use including how to save energy and money, how to buy clean, renewable
energy, and how to educate congregants about climate change, social justice,
and religious ethics. Before coming to Greater Washington Interfaith Power
and Light, Rabbi Daniel Swartz was the Executive Director of the Children¹s
Environmental Health Network, Associate Director of the National Religious
Partnership for the Environment, and Director of Congregational Relations
for the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.  He has also published
op-eds in national papers, as well as studies of religious traditions and
environmental values, including To Till and To Tend: A Guide for Jewish
Environmental Study and Action, published by the Coalition on the
Environment and Jewish Life.  Swartz is also a published children¹s book
author, including ³Bim and Bom: A Shabbat Tale.² In addition to ordination
and his MHL, Rabbi Swartz holds degrees from Brown University in Geological Sciences and in Environmental Policy. He has received numerous academic honors, including prizes Scholarship and Scholastic Excellence from the Hebrew Union College, the Senior Prize in Environmental Studies from Brown, and election to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. The most important thing in his life is his marriage to Roya Fahmy Swartz and their daughter, Alana.

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