On June 4, 2008 at Surprise Lake Camp in Cold Spring, New York, the Teva Seminar on Jewish Environmental Education hosted a seminar on Sustainable Development in the Negev.

The seminar included a talk reviewing and contextualizing the issues, a panel discussion, and small group breakout sessions.

The panel was moderated by Noam Dolgin (Green Zionist Alliance) and included the following speakers:

Rabbi Michael Cohen, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies

Rabbi David Seidenberg

Eric Lankin, Jewish National Fund

Leiba-Chaya David, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel