Daniel Orenstein, at The Blogs

Mar 26, 2023, 12:53 AM

Protest of Haifa University, Oranim College, and Technion professors and teachers (5 February; Photo by the author).

Outside. My country is raging. Riding the train through Tel Aviv last Thursday from a research meeting in the south to teaching in the north, I filmed demonstrators who had closed down both directions on Israel’s largest highway. One of...

Feb 11, 2023, 12:58 PM

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For a sustainable future, protest the ‘reforms’

Israel and a sustainable future (credit: PikiWiki)

The changes will shrink accountability and eliminate safeguards that protect the environment and public health

Aug 13, 2022, 11:53 PM

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A sacred silence

We're assaulted by horn-honking, leaf-blowing, motorcycle-revving, jack-hammer operating noise almost everywhere, every day of the week – except one

Jul 13, 2022, 1:21 AM

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To save Haifa, cull!

Wild boar in Haifa (photo by the author)

My plan to remove this noisy species, with its reckless behavior and impudent free reign of the city, and stop the wildness in our streets

Jan 2, 2022, 11:07 PM

Academic Freedom or a Theater for the Absurd?

An anti-science lecture I had been anticipating the lecture “Climate crisis - Is It Really?” for a couple of weeks. The lecture was being offered in one of the Technion’s engineering departments. The university logo on the announcement offered an...

Apr 17, 2021, 11:57 PM

Walking towards a new and radical post-pandemic normal

This year everything slowed down. Shutdowns, social distancing, quarantines, work-from-home, and cessation of international travel narrowed our day-to-day range of movement from regional to international scales down to the neighborhood scale. During the most stringent of restrictions, we were...

Apr 4, 2021, 11:18 PM

Misinformation at the COVID Finish Line

We are almost there. Although the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the globe, in Israel we see the potential end. Despite the many shortcomings of the Israeli COVID-19 policies – avoidable proliferation of the disease and death, failure to...

Feb 21, 2021, 4:40 PM

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A little black blob in the sand

As long as we are dependent on fossil fuels, we will be a ’throw-away’ society, creating a landscape of plastic waste, and destroying local wildlife

Nov 23, 2020, 1:47 PM

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Me, my fake Facebook identity, and the future of humanity

"The Calamari Kleptocracy" by Nicolas Sansone
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press (May 10, 2012)
ISBN-10: 0985006668
ISBN-13: 978-0985006662

I dove deep into the muck of shallow political debate, toxic discourse and malicious lies. Dispiriting, yes, but there's a path out of this morass

Oct 17, 2020, 4:37 PM

But is he good for Israel?

It's election time in the US and that question is on most of our minds again within the Jewish and American-Israeli community. Which US presidential candidate is better for Israel? We should stop asking. Not only has our concern for...

About Me

Daniel Orenstein is an associate professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests include human-nature interactions, environmental issues in Israel and globally, and public engagement in environmental policy. His general interests are much broader.

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