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Thoughts After Meeting the Pope to Talk About Our Planet’s Health

Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - I recently met Pope Francis at a Vatican conference titled Laudato Si’: Saving Our Common Home and the Future of Life on Earth. What I appreciate...

Floods, Cars and Our Collective Future

Blog: Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean are experiencing an extreme storm in late April. Twelve people, mostly teenagers, have already died from flash floods stemming from intense rainfall and hail. Most...

What does God have to do with eggs?

Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - Where do the eggs we eat come from? How do the chickens that produce those eggs live? Is this in line with religious and ethical values?

The Arctic is Sick, and Florida is Freezing

Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril & Louis Platt - What is being called ‘the bomb cyclone’ or a ‘winter hurricane’ is now striking North America. We are facing a crisis of civilization,...

Blessed Rain washes away 6 Days of Dust

Blog: Rabbi Yonatan Neril - An added benefit to the much-needed rain that Israel received yesterday and today was in washing away the Beijing-level air pollution and dust that has plagued...

Can an Ethical Liberal Eat Kosher Meat?

Blog: Fran Hawthorne - “Choosing food is now so complicated, between the environmental destruction, cruelty to animals, exploitation of workers, and carbon production due to transport,” summarized University of Virginia psychology...

Do These Hurricanes Herald the Apocalypse? An argument.

Blog: Do Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, Jose, and Katia herald the coming of the apocalypse? Or is humanity really behind these ‘natural’ disasters? An argument.

Earth to Houston: We have a Problem

Blog: Humanity this week experienced ecological disasters on an unprecedented scale. Flooding on the Gulf Coast and in South Asia impacted 60 million people, killed 1,200, and destroyed or damaged close...

Drilling Holes on Our Collective Ship

Blog: We have one home. With seven and a half billion of us and 10 billion species, the earth is our collective ship. Jumping ship is out of the question. So...

200,000 at People’s Climate March Rise to the Challenge

Blog: Around 200,000 people marched in Washington D.C. yesterday in the People’s Climate March, according to organizers. Tens of thousands of people also marched in dozens of other cities around the...

Oil Mixes Well with Religion, Politics, and Weapons

Blog: On June 12, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest Muslim sites: Mecca and Medina. The Saudi leaders whom he met control the world’s largest oil deposits,...

Donald Sounds the Big Alarm on Climate

Blog: It happened. President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, and along with the U.S. withdrawal went any illusion that we can depend on US government to protect...

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