Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Urban on Dec 31st, 2007
Tel Aviv is the first Israeli city, and the only city in the Middle East to join Earth Hour, a new worldwide campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Lights out for Tel Aviv will happen on March 29, 2008 at 8 pm, so get your solar-powered flashlights handy.
Tel Aviv joins cities in Denmark, Australia, the [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Dec 31st, 2007
Israelis are coming around and getting into the recycling spirit. We couldn’t hold ourselves back from posting again on Groovy, the designers mentioned yesterday for their multi-purpose matcot chair. Today’s find is a record business card holder. While records are pretty much obselete in this part of the world (unless you are a DJ), business [...]
Posted in Business & Technology on Dec 30th, 2007
One of the big issues when the topic of eating healthy comes up is the problem of food coloring. Many of these colorings are actually poisons. The FDA has approved them because they are used in such small quantities that there is no apparent effect on our bodies. But color dyes are not all bad; [...]
Posted in Culture & Design, Sustainable Lifestyle on Dec 30th, 2007
Israelis love playing matkot. Though we are Israeli, we weren’t born here and have yet to learn how to appreciate the national sport, best played in one’s tighty whities on the beaches of Tel Aviv.Thanks to our new friend at Designist Dream, we found links to the creations of Groovy (Danit & Yinnon Simhi). There [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle on Dec 30th, 2007
We stumbled onto Designist Dream last week “where art and design and the Holy Land meet,” after the missus in the house gave Green Prophet such a warm welcome to the blogosphere.
We’re already excited about some of the eco-relevant finds Designist Dream has dug up, and will be sure to report on some of them [...]
Posted in News & Politics on Dec 30th, 2007
A long time ago, when we were more idealistic, we spent an afternoon at Salon Mazal. Feeling like an anthropologist, we studied the people who were hanging out there: self-named anarchists, squatters, Arab rappers, earth-lovers…you-name-it.
(You can read the story here).
Anyway, it turns out that Tel Avivian anarchists are not so scary after all. Some of [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle on Dec 29th, 2007
We saw all the signs: the ararchist gatherings at Salon Mazal and the little old ladies picking through the Friday-afternoon veggies at the Carmel Market. Social activists in Israel have joined the international movement in protest of our consumer culture. They are dumpster-divers, and living off of just about everything and anything that you might [...]
Posted in News & Politics on Dec 27th, 2007
Memos, agreements, bills, pacts, hand-shaking…we’ve heard a lot of talk about Israel and its intent to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The latest episode is yesterday’s announcement that MK Ofer Paz-Pines (Labor party) has submitted a bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Israel.
Posted in News & Politics on Dec 27th, 2007
We’ve just learned that a national conference on business and the environment will take place in Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan on January 21 - 22, 2008. Organized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the conference is described as “a meeting ground between business and the environment and creating mutual integration and growth, both [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Dec 25th, 2007
While the Christians are busy unwrapping their presents around the world, the LA-based clothing company American Apparel, decided to launch a sale just for the Jews. Lucky for the Jews, there is an American Apparel outlet in Israel on King George Street in Tel Aviv; and double lucky, the company carries an organic clothing line.
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