Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Science & Technology on Mar 17th, 2008
The public discussion of Israel’s water problems intensified last week, with Israel’s most respected newspaper, Ha’aretz, calling on water authorities to shift to regulating demand for the scarce resource. During the same week, a new study was released which suggested that a shift to electric cars could seriously impact water consumption in countries where this [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Mar 17th, 2008
How can you set your professional dreams in motion if you have mountains of fear to overcome? For some it may be quitting one’s job to start up the new “green” home business, for others it may be as simple as asking the boss for a raise.
For me, as an environmental journalist dreaming about marine [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Mar 16th, 2008
With spring just around the corner, the weather in Israel is perfect for enjoying the outdoors and getting back to nature. Before the short, but icy winter melts into the fierce summer heat, Israel’s Heschel Center for Environmental Leadership will be teaming up with Hazon in New York for a four-day hike along the northern [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Mar 15th, 2008
At the beginning of my teenage years in Canada, I remember my mother talking in hushed tones about Aunt Hana, who suddenly and mysteriously starting feeling strange aches and pains in her body. Doctors couldn’t find a systemic cause for her ailments, until she traced back dates to when she was last in Poland visiting [...]
Posted in Green Living Tips on Mar 15th, 2008
Ever have the gimme gimme’s? Hyper-consumption is a major contributor to environmental degradation. By getting in the habit of asking ourselves the question “Do I really need this?” each time we see something that catches our eye we can lessen the impact on the planet and save a ton of cash too.
Posted in Business & Politics on Mar 15th, 2008
Check it out: A solution to all that trash.
Do the words “business” and “green” sound antithetical to you? Read on.
Now you can wear your favorite banner advertisement on your purse. Forever.
Claudia waxes rhapsodic about a new organic restaurant in Tel Aviv. It’s all about the buckwheat dumplings!
Here’s what we bet is news to you: Israel [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Mar 15th, 2008
Slowly, but surely Israel is catching on to the idea of green building. We are wondering if the Israeli-style new “green” building neighborhood set to take over 650 dunams of land in Kfar Saba is really as green as it boasts.
A while back we read about single-family homes to be built there (a la white [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Mar 14th, 2008
Have you ever had the pleasure of watching the life of a lazy sloth? In Costa Rica on the Pacific shore near a busy surfing village, I rented a room in a small hotel for a week. There I watched the slowness of a sloth with curiosity and envy. For days she sat perched above [...]
Posted in Green Living Tips on Mar 13th, 2008
Microwaves are great cooking tools, they might not be the healthiest way to go but they sure do save time. Here are some tips to keep that cooking green:
The greenest, and safest, way to cook in a microwave is to cover your food using oven-safe glass cookware, which eliminates waste and the potential [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Mar 13th, 2008
So we started with food and nursery furniture. Next on the list are those beautifully packaged and very enticing creams, soaps, lotions and wipes, which as a new mum we are bombarded with and sometimes feel that our children will not survive without.
Baby toiletries are one of my biggest pet hates, they are a [...]
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