“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” Thomas Edison Tweet This quote opened last week’s “Alternative Energy Science” class with Dr. Tali Zohar , Director of the Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation, on the technologies and applications of solar t hermal energy, power production, and heating applications. Students learned many basic and interesting facts about solar energy: The heat and light from the sun comes to the earth as electromagnetic energy, a radiant energy produced from the sun’s fusion process. In other words, radiation; its power is measured in watts. Ideally the power of the sun would produce 1360 watts per square meter. That however is not achieved because of non-constant conditions such as geographic location, time, the seasons, the atmosphere. In fact only 50% of solar radiation reaches the surface of the earth, ...
In September 2023, the Arava Institute partnered with the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford on a joint project to build resilience to climate change through citizen-led energ ...
Last week we welcomed the 26 participants of the Spring 2024 semester to the Arava Institute campus in Kibbutz Ketura. With the ongoing war posing various challenges to our recruitment and admissions ...
In January a delegation from the Arava Institute traveled to Guatemala to assess possible future cooperation with the Rabinal municipality, and learn about a local leadership project on the “Adapta ...
“I joined the facilitation team of the Arava Institute in the Fall of 2018. 11 years after leaving the Institute as a student. I came back a new person. In these 11 years I had learned so much abou ...
Rabbi Michael M. Cohen is a faculty member of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and Bennington College. He teaches courses on conflict resolution, the Bible, and the environment, and is t ...
Fall 2023 students playing music in the desert The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is located at the heart of the Arava desert, where the sunsets turn the sky into a canvas of oranges and p ...
Angelina Heil is currently an intern at the Arava Institute’s Center for Applied Environmental Diplomacy , researching the feasibility of a new approach to Israeli-Palestinian cooperation via the ...
Angelina Heil is currently an intern at the Arava Institute’s Center for Applied Environmental Diplomacy , researching the feasibility of a new approach to Israeli-Palestinian cooperation via the n ...
In September 2023 the Arava Institute partnered with the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford on a joint project to build resilience to climate change through citizen-led energy ...