Wind Energy in Red States
For more on renewable energy in the U.S., please see this video on solar energy in California parking lots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=34xzADhQaEU&feature=youtu.be From the corn fields of Indiana come the wind energy revolution in rural America. Despite the shortcomings in environmental action in red states in many cases, it actually turns out that they are America’s leaders in wind energy.
Thoughts on the Environmental Stewardship of Pope Francis
For more from the Vatican Ecological Conference, please see this video of Yeb Sano, the executive director of Greenpeace in Southeast Asia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGSHTN90cNw&t=6s Pope Francis has been helpful in inspiring stewardship of the natural environment. How can we work together as faith communities and nations to protect our common home?
Kids, Cars, and Climate
For more on consumerism and spirituality, please see this video of two swamis discussing the dangers of consumerism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6lvhoCHGeI If we teach our kids to drive cars, when they become adults they will likely do so. This video stresses the importance of educating the youth on sustainable living.
ICSD Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam at Tmol Shilshom
For more from the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development’s Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam, please see this performance from ICSD founder and executive director Yonatan Neril: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7_G1T88wE&t=1s The ICSD is proud to present a mash-up of the Interfaith Eco Poetry Slam. Participants from different religions, countries, ethnicities, and backgrounds came together to share original poems about the relation of faith and ecology.
Why the Media Covers the Stories That It Does
For more on the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development and the news, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi7OybCJPIg&t=22s After leaving an interview at the i24NEWS station, Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder and director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, shares insight about why the majority of the media covers the stories that it covers.
Rabbi Yonatan Neril talks about the modern power plant.
For more on today’s energy sources, please see Neril’s presentation on solar energy in Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQRhTSn6bg&t=122s On a trip to a coastal city of Caesaria in Israel, Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founder and director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, informs us about where our electricity comes from and the modern challenges created by the systems currently in place.
The Titanic vs Noah’s Ark: We Are All on the Same Boat
Similar to those people on the Titanic, humankind today faces a common challenge to its very existence. What can we learn from the Titanic and Noah’s Ark in order to change course ? See a related video on the coronavirus & climate change 👪🌄🙉🌴➡️ https://youtu.be/Yzo7l1qFtac If we accept that we face a crisis, we can gain motivation to live differently. Rabbi Yonatan Neril, founding director of The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, shares from Jerusalem.
Dr. Sadhvi on Green Visions of Development Faith and Science Earth Alliance Conference
Dr. Sadhvi, at the Faith and Science earth Alliance Conference in New York, talks about modern Indian culture and how the integration of the Western value and pride of shopping malls and other such things are detrimental to India’s societal health and future.
Rabbi Yonatan Neril Speaks on i24 News of the Connection of Religion and Sustainability
For more on the connection between faith and science, please see this video on faith and science compatibility. During news coverage of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development’s work, Rabbi Yonatan Neril spoke about the variety of faith-based environmental projects of ICSD, the connection between religion and the environment, and how sustainability can help different cultures come together amid the middle eastern conflict.