Clean tech: Will it solve the ecological crisis?
Matthew Mausner – “Clean Tech”, like its close cousin Green Tech, is both a description and an aspiration for innovative technologies and techniques to improve, repurpose, or replace our industrial practices in favor of more sustainable and less polluting practices.
How Long Did it Take Noah to Build the Ark, and Why It Matters
Rabbi Yonatan Neril – How long did Noah take to build the Ark mentioned in the Bible? And why do we care? The Bible doesn’t say exactly how long, and not much is known about the ship-building process when Noah was alive—especially a ship commissioned by God. Some believe it took just 40 days for Noah to build it, some say 120 days, and others believe he had as many as 300 years.
Evidence of Climate Change: Satellites, Ice Core Samples, and More
Elisheva Malomet – The hot button topic of climate change has been in the public sphere, and many are concerned about drastic changes they are witnessing. The evidence of global warming is significant and is measured in many ways.
Environmental degradation and the future of our planet Earth
Matthew Mausner – Human civilization has always been a risky enterprise. Archaeologists have found the ruins of over 100 civilizations that have collapsed, some with hardly a trace, over the last 5,000 or more years. Most of these collapses have happened because people damaged their local environment and ecosystem until they could no longer support human life.
The Benefits of Composting: Ancient Civilizations to Today’s Technology
Matthew Mausner – Composting has become far more than just a “quirky” side practice of organic farmers and is now an advanced industry with a wide range of applications. Composting—the intentional use of natural decomposition and fermentation processes, to turn food waste, yard waste, and other organic material into useful soil and even fuel—has been refined and just now understood in ways that hold keys to our sustainable future.
Facing Single-Use Plastic Threats: From Awareness to Action
Elisheva Malomet and Deborah Rose – Plastic packaging and bags, drinking bottles and straws, disposable plastic plates, forks, knives and spoons—these are designed and created to be thrown away and destroyed. Throwaway mentality has created a massive environmental problem on Earth from single-use plastics.
Global warming vs climate change: Examining how these terms relate to each other
Matthew Mausner and Yonatan Neril – Global warming and climate change are two terms that are often used interchangeably, but they actually have distinct meanings.
Flash Floods and Our World
Yonatan Neril and Elisheva Malomet – Flash floods can occur in as little as minutes or an hour, but their devastation can last months or decades. Triggered and intensified by climate change, deforestation, development and more, flashfloods destroy homes, infrastructure, human lives and the environment.
Examining Some of the Pros and Cons of Globalization
Matthew Mausner and Yonatan Neril – Our world has become much “smaller” and more interconnected in just the last generation. The rise and acceleration of globalization has ushered in vast increases in global migration, trade and communication—including negative effects on our environment and cultures.