There has been a buzz in the news over the past few days. This buzzing is over how three Israelis have made it into an exclusive list of Scientific American’s ‘50 most significant scientific breakthroughs in 2007.’
Making that list is not our only ‘top’ accomplishment for this year. An Israeli scientist has [...]

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Why is it more expensive to buy ‘clean’ food than food containing additives and pesticide residues?Many people who would like to eat naturally, are forced to eat commercially-produced food containing pesticide residues and preservatives because natural food is beyond their budget.
This seems counterintuitive.
Every person regardless of income level should have the basic right to eat [...]

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Thousands of years before green became hot, the Jewish people were observing the Shmitta, a sabbatical year. The Shmitta is documented in the bible as a year where farmers are forbidden to work the land in order to give the land a rest.
(1) The Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai. (2) Speak to the [...]

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The truth hurts: that adorable sweater you found on sale at Banana Republic for $25 is no harmless indulgence. The production, transportation and washing of clothing is responsible for approximately 25 percent of an individual’s C02 emissions- -about one ton per person. In a move to green their products, Israeli clothing company Delta [...]

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Hi my name is Jack Reichert and I am a new writer for Green Prophet. Even as a kid I was interested in the environment.
Once, in the second grade, I rallied all of my classmates to donate one recess a week to clean up litter from the yard. That was the same [...]

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Energy, we all need it for practically everything we do.

With global warming accelerating and fossil fuels expected to run out in decades, the hunt is on for alternative energy sources.
Professor Dan Zaslavsky from the Technion in Haifa has come up with a solution – the Energy Tower – which will not only reduce the [...]

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Outdoor vegetable gardens are nice, but as it turns out, they are so 2007. Now Technion Institute researchers Tagit Klimor and David Knafo have developed a design for high-rise apartments that will have their own self-sustaining greenhouses.
The greenhouse spaces will enable families to grow produce for their own consumption, with enough left over to generate [...]

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(Parking at Rabin Square and pool of water in the parking lot.)
People who live in Israel and who have to negotiate its roads might not feel that they have arrived in Gan Eden (”Eden”). As the standard of living increases on a yearly basis, so does the number of cars and parking lots. Any [...]

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Deep in the heart of the Negev Desert, there is but one natural resource: the sun.
David Faiman from Ben Gurion University has found a way to use solar energy to concentrate the light of a 1,000 suns. Using reflective mirrors made from silicon, David has built a series of mirrors that concentrate the penetrating [...]

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