Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Fashion & Design on Jun 16th, 2008
Last week we wrote about an environmentally conscious window display in Tel Aviv designed by Shulayim Studio, but the store that the window belonged to - Cotton - is news worthy as well.
Cotton started making a limited line of clothes in 1992 with the goal of creating pieces that are unique, comfortable, woman-friendly, environmentally-friendly, and [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Jun 15th, 2008
(Prof. Avi Kribus)
Center will explore clean energy production through transformational technologies and unique multidisciplinary approach
Natural resources everywhere are rapidly being depleted. Traditional energy sources, like oil, have become hostages to a weakening world economy. The future, it seems, may depend on renewable energy ― new technology that bridges scientific disciplines and commercial opportunities. Tel [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Jun 15th, 2008
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the organic baby in the baby carriage. Today we would like to welcome, the guest post of Avi Yacove who has just helped give life to Baby Organic, a new online baby’s clothing store based in Israel.
Writes Avi: Baby Organic came to mind as an idea of [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Jun 15th, 2008
China is interested in Israeli clean technology. Here’s a video capturing some of the more interesting companies at Israel’s latest cleantech expo: on water, recycling and green building. Most of the companies showcased were all about valves and pipes, but the video points out a few hot innovators.
Posted in Science & Technology on Jun 14th, 2008
Are you tired of seeing all the waste at work? The unnecessary printing, photocopying, computers left on all night, styrofoam cups, wasted electricity? Oh, the horrors! Ready to work in a greener environment?
Well, if you’re based in Tel Aviv or Istanbul, Greenpeace is hiring. And they want you.
Greenpeace is looking for [...]
Posted in Business & Politics, Lifestyle & Culture on Jun 13th, 2008
It’s one thing when designers take brand new ready-made materials and transform them into something else. It’s another thing entirely when designers take old ready-mades and reincarnate them in order to avoid waste.
Reincarnation is what Israeli designer Doron Sar-Shalom is all about.
His designs, which consist mainly of lamps, are constructed out of unlikely materials [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Jun 12th, 2008
Photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into food and oxygen, represents some of the most advanced technology engineered by Mother Nature. And now Tel Aviv University researcher Professor Hanoch Carmeli has discovered a way to harness the process of photosynthesis to create electricity.
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jun 11th, 2008
Strolling down the glitzy northern part of Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street this week, something strange caught my eye among all the designer gowns and stiletto pumps. Garbage. Literally, garbage. No, not on the street. In the window display.
The garbage - which included aluminum cans and newspapers - was in the window [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jun 11th, 2008
I recently wrote about Environment California’s report on Formaldehyde in nursery furniture and the potential threat to our children’s health. Well, Friends of the Earth (FoE USA) are hot on the heels of this report and have released their own findings regarding toxic fire retardants common in baby products and it does not paint a [...]
Posted in Food & Health on Jun 11th, 2008
Writer and part-time pig farmer, Jeff Yoskowitz, was at the recent Shavuot Slow Food market in Tel Aviv – and had mixed feelings about the artisan cheeses, meats and organic veggies on offer (thanks to Hazon for this guest post).
The shuk in Tel Aviv (Carmel Market) that so many travelers love — the idyllic market [...]
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