Photos from The Sustainability Laboratory's 2018 Global Sustainability Fellows (GSF) summer session, held at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Kibbutz Ketura, Israel.

1. Global Sustainability Fellows (GSF) Program
2018 Summer Session, held at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
Kibbutz Ketura, Israel

2. 2018 GSF cohort at Kibbutz Ketura

3. A view of Kibbutz Ketura, a remote site in the Arava Valley

4. Fellows during a class exercise on model building

5. Dining at Kibbutz Ketura

6. GSF faculty member and alumna Therese Bennich giving an introductory lecture on system dynamics

7. Tareq Abu Hamed, Director of Academics at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, leading the GSF cohort on a tour of the Arava
Institute off-grid technology hub

8. Demonstration of green technologies at the Arava Institute off-grid technology hub

9. Solar energy installation at the Arava Institute off-grid technology hub

10. Demonstration of green technologies at the Arava Institute off-grid technology hub

11. Fellows at the pub at Kibbutz Ketura

12. Fellow Amran Amarni giving a presentation to the GSF cohort

13. Day trip to Eilat and the Red Sea

14. Fellow Shweta Adhikari during a Culture Night event

15. Fellow Le Huyen Nga during a Culture Night event

16. GSF faculty member Bernard Amadei gives lecture on the management of development projects

17. GSF cohort at Project Wadi Attir

18. Amran Amarni, a 2018 fellow and the Director of Educational Services at Project Wadi Attir, gives a tour to the GSF cohort

19. Fellows at the hybrid solar-wind energy and storage system at Project Wadi Attir

20. 2018 fellow Rachael Marne Jones at the goat pen at Project Wadi Attir

21. Stefan Leu leading the 2018 GSF cohort on a tour of Project Wadi Attir

22. GSF faculty member and alumna Vanessa Armendariz leading a workshop on sustainability from the viewpoint of the developing world

23. Mark Naveh of Kibbutz Lotan introducing the GSF cohort to the community’s environmental studies program

24. GSF fellows in front of an eco-dome at Kibbutz Lotan

25. GSF fellows at Kibbutz Lotan

26. GSF fellows with Lab founder Michael Ben-Eli at a mud structure at Kibbutz Lotan

27. A model mud dwelling at Kibbutz Lotan

28. 2018 fellows Shweta Adhikari and Adiba Muminova taking a break

29. Evening activities during the GSF

30. Anat Ganor from Kibbutz Neot Semadar, a model sustainable, intentional community, leading the GSF cohort on a tour

31. Studying reconstructed wetlands at Kibbutz Neot Semadar

32. Visiting the dairy at Kibbutz Neot Semadar

33. Studying the water reservoir at Kibbutz Neot Semadar

34. Visiting the winery at Kibbutz Neot Semadar

35. A group of fellows during a classroom exercise

36. In a caravan of jeeps during an overnight trip to the desert

37. GSF fellows celebrating the desert sunrise

38. Visit to a remote, Bedouin encampment in the desert

39. Fellows present fieldwork findings during plenary sessions

40. During plenary sessions presentations

41. Fellows present fieldwork findings during plenary sessions

42. Fellows present fieldwork findings during plenary sessions

43. GSF fellows, faculty members, and representatives from Kibbutz Neot Semadar following plenary sessions

44. GSF fellows in Jerusalem

45. Final group photo of the 2018 GSF cohort