Nina Beth Cardin is a community rabbi who works in the fields of faith and sustainability.

She is currently the President of the Baltimore Board of Rabbis, Chair of the Baltimore Jewish community’s Environmental Sustainability Network, and Chair of the Sustainability Initiative of the Conservative movement’s Tzedek Center.

Rabbi Cardin co-founded and directed (2020-2023) the Maryland Campaign for Environmental Human Rights, an initiative that worked to place an amendment in the Maryland state constitution that would protect all Marylanders’ rights to a healthful environment.

She founded and directed the Baltimore Orchard Project – designed to address the intersecting issues of sustainability, environmental health, food justice, land use and neighborhood development.

Author of several books, her most recent one (2025) is To Forever Inhabit this Earth: an ethic of enoughness, which explores the Jewish mitzvah (imperative) of preserving and sustaining a habitable world.