Noah Rafael Grossman is a student at Columbia University in New York City studying sustainable development. His family hails from Argentina, but he grew up in Rocky Point, on Long Island, NY, before moving to Cornwall-on-Hudson in the Hudson Valley. His love for sustainability stems from the teachings of his father, who was passionate about the preservation of marine ecosystems like that of the Long Island Sound, and it was cemented after witnessing ecological devastation in the form of plastic pollution on his local beach. However, as he matured, he realized that sustainability is not solely an environmental concept, but also a human one, and that creating a more sustainable civilization necessitates social justice and equality--an end to discrimination against others due to race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation, an end to the gender-based and racial wage gaps, and an end to poverty. It is with this goal in mind that he decided to commence his current project, the design of a new concentrated solar renewable energy system based on the Stirling heat engine, with the goal of creating an inexpensive unit that produces usable electricity in order to electrify low-income communities and improve their standard of living.