Blog & News
The – URGENT – Environmental Agenda For The Jewish People
News Coverage: Consider these dark facts: About 97% of Israel’s electricity is generated from burning fossil fuels – this from a country that can power itself 100% by the sun during the...
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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,...
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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...
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Archbishop Welby’s comment leads to development of African solar project
News Coverage: A comment made by the Archbishop of Canterbury during his visit to the Holy Land in April, has resulted in a pioneering green energy project for churches in Africa. During...
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ExxonMobil concede defeat in climate change battle with Church of England
News Coverage: The global oil giant ExxonMobil have finally caved in to shareholder demands – led by the C of E’s Church Commissioners – to set out how the business will be...
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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...
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16th Century Scholar Warned of Hurricane Irma Through Hebrew Riddle
News Coverage: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, who has a BA and MA from Stanford University with a focus on global environmental issues, notes in Huffington Post that the leading 20th century mystic Rabbi...
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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.
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Laudato si’: Università pontificie romane alleate per la casa comune. Al via a novembre un “Joint Diploma” in ecologia integrale
News Coverage: Il Papa chiama, e i suoi atenei rispondono con un percorso formativo congiunto che per la prima volta mette in sinergia sette istituzioni universitarie e un istituto di studi superiori....
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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...
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In Israel, religious differences don’t always lead to ugly conflict
News Coverage: The tension on and around Temple Mount, which has gone on for weeks now, should be diffused before it escalates into the worst kind of conflict: a religious war.
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Why is it so hot right now?
News Coverage: ICSD Director Yonatan Neril writes about the links between the increasingly hot summer weather across the world - including Pakistan's world-record 130 degrees Fahrenheit - and the increasing human-caused production...
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