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Jun 19, 2026, 9:47 AM

High-Tech Oases and the Missing Piece of Middle Eastern Climate Resilience

Climate Democracy - The Israel perspective

As the Mediterranean summer sharpens into a multi-month crucible of extreme heatwaves and declining water security, a dangerous illusion persists across the Middle East. It is the belief that resilience to an altering climate is purely an engineering challenge—a...

Jun 16, 2026, 5:28 PM

Weapons vs. Welfare: Why Our Defense Budgets Are Sabotaging Our Climate Survival

Climate Survival

We live in a world obsessed with “hard security.” We measure a nation’s safety by the size of its defense budget, the sophistication of its arsenals, and its capacity to project force. Yet, in the Anthropocene—an era defined by...

Richard H. Schwartz

Jun 16, 2026, 5:11 AM

World Cup: As The World Burns, There is a Solution

This article was co-authored by Rabbi Shammai Enngelmayer The World Cup kicked off on June 11, and climatologists are warning that at least a quarter of its 104 matches may be played in temperatures of at least 90°F (33.2C), with...

Jun 10, 2026, 12:38 AM

Why the left should like Israel

The media coverage and the common discourse about Israel are all too often reduced to conflict and politics. In many political discussions, particularly on the left, Israel is viewed primarily through the lens of conflict and security. However, there are...

May 26, 2026, 6:05 PM

Environmental Peacebuilding is Dead. Long Live Climate Realism

Climate Realism by Carmit Lubanov.

For decades, the standard textbook for Mediterranean environmental diplomacy was built on a comforting premise known as "environmental peacebuilding." The theory promised that climate change would force ideological enemies into logical partnerships, transforming shared water and solar scarcity into...

May 20, 2026, 4:21 AM

When Pete Seeger met Reb Zalman

Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Pete Seeger, seated in his wife Toshi’s wheelchair, studying the words of Ecclesiastes together in Pete’s living room in May 2012.

Photo credit: David Weisberg

An unforgettable encounter between two spiritual giants before Shavuot gave me a timeless lesson in compassion, curiosity, and human dignity

May 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

No cheesecake without sustainability

Understandably, Israel has let key issues, including the climate crisis, renewable energy, cleantech, and more, drop off the public radar. But there's no easy fix

Allen S. Maller

May 12, 2026, 3:38 AM

Armageddon is a Global Blowup

Almost one million people in Lebanon are expected to face food insecurity this summer a new assessment shows; so Lebanon joins several other countries at war with few foods. A new international study published in Scientific Reports warns that Africa's forests,...

Richard H. Schwartz

May 10, 2026, 1:21 PM

Applying Jewish Values Can Help Save Our Imperiled Planet

First, let us consider why the world needs saving. Recently, there have been rising temperatures, melting ice caps, intensifying wildfires, devastating floods, and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. Every decade since the 1970s has been warmer than the previous one. All...

May 7, 2026, 8:42 PM

From 3I/ATLAS to Hormuz: Iran’s War Reshapes OPEC, Energy, Corridors and Space

Environmental protest installation outside the Santa Marta Climate Conference in Santa Marta, Colombia. Global energy and trade disruptions are accelerating the search for alternatives — from green energy to the future space economy. (Ivan Valencia / AP)

From Hormuz to Space: How the US-Iran War Is Reshaping the Future of Energy. The United States–Iran conflict is not merely a regional security crisis. It is exposing how deeply the global economy still depends on fossil fuels, vulnerable maritime...

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