The Crew
Jonathan Dubinsky has been working for the Teva Learning Center for the past 5 years. He runs Teva’s Nature Center and farm on Long Island at the Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds and also created the Teva Topsy Turvy bus tour program back in ’08. His next move will take him to graduate school in civil engineering for sustainable infrastructure.
Jonah Meadows Adels enjoys singing, swimming, and plants. Before trading in a mouse for a pointed digging tool, he taught documentary video making in Portland, OR and Kathmandu, Nepal. He currently teaches Teenage Mutant Ninja Permaculture with the Jewish Farm School and Eden Village Camp.
Noah Slovin realized the Teva Learning Center would play an important role in his life the first time he painted his face with wild grape juice as a 12-year-old Teva participant in ’98. Since then he has hugged ninety-seven trees, stopped to smell over fifty roses, and convinced innumerable children that it was a good idea to cover their faces in mud. He summers in Machane Gimel at Camp Ramah in New England.
Joanna Katz, known affectionately as “Nana,” has been spreading her infectious excitement about nature and fair trade living to children since her first stint as a Teva educator 5 years ago. Her 3 favorite activities are reading, teaching, and dressing up in spandex and roller skates. Joanna’s love of teaching has taken her to graduate school, the city classrooms of Philadelphia and everywhere in between.
Elizabeth Cossin started working for the Teva Learning Center inthe spring of 2007. This will be her second tour on the Topsy Turvy Bus. When she isn’t busy playing with kids or knitting hats, you can probably find her watering her plants or eating grapefruit.
Diane Litwin loves nothing more than seeing the look on a child’s face when he or she first realizes that worm poop makes soil. She passes the time funking-out to Daft Punk and the F.B.I. song and dressing up as decomposers. Her favorite shape is an herb spiral.
Hey, I just passed you guys on I-25 and Broadway about an hour ago and took a few few pics for my facebook update. Since you don’t need any pics of your own bus, I thought I would share my FB comment with you. Check out this old crazy school bus I saw driving home from work today. It had new York plates. I looked up the website painted on the side. http://jewishclimatecampaign.org/
Looks like they were just leaving Boulder. I’m not sure yet what it is, exactly, that they’re doing, besides the obvious. But I am sure, I probably approve, since I admire those folks who act more on their beliefs opposed to just talking(or complaining) about them. As long as those beliefs help the common good and not just selfish monetary/pride reasons. It’s sad many humans can’t really decipher the difference. Roll on, and good luck, hippie Jews!
I haven’t read your website yet, but promise I will. Oh, by the way, Thanks.
I’m looking forward to following your adventures. Please post often. The videos from the last tour were truly delightful.
Jonathan Dubinsky and Elizabeth Cossin are amazing for doing this again. Who is playing the guitar this trip?
Jonathan,
I’ve been working with the guys at DieselCraft on a centrifuge setup for my truck. They said you are already running one but have been having some issues with it. I have some ideas that i wantto run by you to see if you have already tried them. Please email me back so we can discuss them.
Thanks,
Jason
Oh my gosh! What a fantastic crew! I hope Nana has been reading many inspiring stories to the bus visitors (or just to the rest of the crew)