Content on Environment
Ancestors – Honoring Them; Becoming Them
What does it mean to be a good ancestor in these times?
Challenging Destruction: We Speak Up Despite the Odds
As we witness the modern-day Flood of climate change, how can the full story of Noah’s Ark both warn and inspire us toward meaningful action?
Climate Change: Causes and Consequences
Moving forward in a changed climate means placing hope in life’s resilience and capacity for adaptation – which are also defining characteristics of the Jewish people.
Mental Modeling Climate Change Can Reveal a World of Solutions
Mental modeling – meeting people where they are with their knowledge – shows us how small steps can have big impacts
Trees, Fungi, Earth, and Us
The interconnected life of forest stands and fungi seems to invite us in, and encourage us to ponder our own interconnections.
Asthma Disparities, Tikkun Olam, and Breathing a Little Easier
When we open our eyes and see disparities in health outcomes, we are obligated to act.
Insights from Spinoza and the New Brain Sciences
Spinoza speculated about how ethics could emerge from biology and psychology rather than disrupt them, and recent evidence suggests he might have gotten it right.
Climate and Judaism: We Are One
Religion and science both ask, in different ways: are humans a part of nature, or distinct and exceptional?
When We Pray for Rain, Is It Because We Actually Want It?
When does Jewish law respond to scientific reality?
Sukkot, Water, and Oneness
Observing the rains and the water cycle led our ancestors to a new idea – that there was a unity to every form of water and every facet of the cycle.
Creation and Restoration Ecology
The new Jewish environmental Tikkun Olam requires us to abandon the idea that we always know what is best for the natural world.
Nuclear Materials: The Good… and the Ugly
How do we navigate the great power and potentially massive risk surrounding nuclear technology?