Posted in Business & Technology on Apr 30th, 2008
Cleantech Israel, a new group that enables entrepreneurs, investors, academics, government officials and others to meet and exchange ideas about Israel’s renewable energy, water, and environmental technology sectors, held its second event yesterday in Herzliya Pituach.
The event featured a presentation by Alon Tamari, Co-CEO of SolarPower Israel — the largest solar integration company in Israel [...]
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Posted in Education, Living Greener on Apr 30th, 2008
We are delighted to be able to share this enlightening article on greening sex and sexuality, courtesy of our friends over at the Dinah Project.
The Dinah Project is a wonderful endeavor in promoting healthy sexuality from a woman’s perspective (but not exclusively), through education, open communication, and recommendation based on experience as educators and [...]
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Posted in Education on Apr 30th, 2008
Thanks to the Birthright programme and the array of gap-year schemes, more young people from across the world have the opportunity to visit Israel, get back to their roots and find out what life is like for their Israeli cousins.
Now foreign students can gain skills about environmental advocacy and campaigning – Israeli-style – to [...]
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Posted in Culture & Design on Apr 30th, 2008
It’s the spring exhibition season in Tel Aviv, and the art world is blooming. Blooming with new shows, new artists, and new ideas. And, thanks to internationally exhibited Israeli artist Yoav Kotik, blooming with recycled flowers.
Kotik, a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, has fashioned flowers out of junk in [...]
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Posted in GreenYourselfDaily on Apr 29th, 2008
Here are some eco-friendly tips for getting rid of ants…
Try sprinkling one (or more) of these ingredients where ants enter your home and it will help keep your house ant-free this spring and summer: Lemon juice, cinnamon, baking soda, coffee grounds, vinegar.
AND… if you mix all of the above and bake in the oven at 350 degrees [...]
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Posted in News & Politics on Apr 29th, 2008
America has one, so does Latvia and Singapore. Israel is getting ready to select it’s very own national bird — a tough choice given the volume of bird species that use Israel as a flyway every year, travelling from Africa to Europe and then back again.
This green prophet is in favor of the hoopoe.
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Posted in Education on Apr 29th, 2008
(Blanket of smog hovers over Tel Aviv and Jaffa)
How many courses do doctors-in-training take in areas of the environment and public health? Either very few or none at all, we are told. Knowing about the dangers of the environment can help physicians diagnose diseases, and push for a general clean-up of our cities’ water and [...]
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Posted in Nature on Apr 29th, 2008
A guest post from Hazon in New York:
This March 23 – 27 thirty participants from around North America and Israel hiked from the northern tip of Israel to the Sea of Galilee on the first-ever Hike for Israel, to benefit the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership, based in Tel Aviv, and Hazon in [...]
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Posted in News & Politics on Apr 28th, 2008
While we at Green Prophet wouldn’t encourage anyone to clutter their lives with tons of stuff, there are some wonderful green gadgets on the marketplace now - the Solio mobile phone charger for instance, uses all this wonderful ’shemesh’ we have instead of electricity … and Israel is at the forefront of this research and [...]
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Posted in GreenYourselfDaily on Apr 27th, 2008
watch your plants go on a caffeine high! Instead of trashing or washing those coffee grinds down the drain, throw them in your garden. They make great fertilizer.
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