Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Religion on Mar 13th, 2008
Food is never something lacking at Jewish celebrations, but, like most things in life, their environmental footprint keeps expanding, whether the factory-farmed chicken that ends up in the soup pan, or the throwaway plastic cutlery destined to spend the next few centuries in a landfill site.
Our friends at Jewish eco-NGO, Hazon, have devised a guide [...]
Posted in Green Living Tips on Mar 12th, 2008
One way of greening is economizing space and where better place to economize than than in your own home… Here are a few tips for making your home bigger:A flat screen mounted on the wall eliminates the need for a TV stand or armoire, it also looks sleek and great!Paint the walls and ceiling in a continuous [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Mar 12th, 2008
Rothschild Boulevard has always been lined with trees, but anyone walking on Rothschild Boulevard between Bezalel Yafe Street and Yavne Street during the past couple of weeks may have noticed a special influx of greenery.
Lined in the center of the boulevard, this collection of trees is a special site-specific installation by Israeli environmental [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Mar 11th, 2008
The colorful sculpture that once graced Bialik Square in the center of Tel Aviv is no more. The sculpture, designed for the square by artist Nahum Gutman in the 1970’s, rose out of a circular fountain and recounted 4000 years of Tel Aviv-Jaffa history in tiled mosaics. Today, a pile of dirt [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Mar 11th, 2008
Hebrew University, sent Green Prophet this press announcement today. Water seems to be the talk of the town these days:
Possessing only 6.2% of global freshwater resources to supply 21% of the world’s population, China’s severe water shortage has become one of the most pressing dangers the country faces, threatening its fast-growing economy.
Despite its vast water [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Mar 10th, 2008
We’re accustomed to the doom-and-gloom prophecies of Israel’s chronic water shortage and how the thirst of the growing population of a country that is over 50% desert is going to crash and burn one day in the future. So it came as a shock to the system to hear Machiavellian German hydrogeologist, Clemens Messerschmid insist [...]
Posted in Fashion & Design on Mar 10th, 2008
Tel Aviv is offering organic food not only in form of vegetable boxes, or new organic grocery stores, but also in form of a brand new vegetarian restaurant.
Sarahle Organi is a cute place in Nachalat Benjamin that opened a few weeks ago.
The whole restaurant is very light and friendly and completely redesigned by it’s owner [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Mar 10th, 2008
You read about it here first on Green Prophet. Now watch the vid.
Tel Aviv’s Naomi from Abu Yoyo has found an ingenious way to recycle city banner adverts. She makes bags, wallets and book covers and sells them back to media companies. Ingenious, no?
Posted in Green Living Tips on Mar 10th, 2008
Thinking back to picnics as a kid I can still hear my parents’ voices telling me to leave the place cleaner than how we found it.
Until this day this thought is what goes through my mind whenever I sit down to eat. Can you imagine how wonderful our world would be if everyone could implement [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Mar 9th, 2008
Brits amongst us might well be familiar with the concept of ‘green’ or ‘ethical banking’ through publicity surrounding the Cooperative Bank and Triodos, or other UK high street banks that are falling over themselves to offer this new, trendy financial facility, which is also spreading rapidly through the American banking system; but what about Israel?
How [...]
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