Offsetting alone won’t save our planet but it certainly isn’t anything to scoff at.
There are many ways to offset. But probably the best way to offset is to educate others. You wont only be cutting back on ways you are damaging our planet but you will be helping others take that first step.
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When I was growing up whenever we would go to a park or on a camping trip, my parents would instill in me the importance of leaving the area where we had just been cleaner than how we had found it.
This is probably one of the most influential ideas from my parents that has traveled [...]

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Last week I took a tour of unrecognized Bedouin communities in the Negev/Naqab, similar to the one that James did with Rabbis for Human Rights.
This tour was fascinating because of its subject matter, but also because I was introduced to an extremely cool organization called Lifesource, one of the sponsors of the tour.
Barely a year [...]

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“The trees are weeping
in the Land of Israel…
There is no compassion
For the land’s raiment –
Its seven species…
And on these parcels of land
Concessions will be granted
To Burger king
And Kentucky Fried Chicken.”
From The Trees are Weeping by Aharon Shabtai
We’ve seen how poetry and the environment can intersect, as in the work of poet laureate Robert Hass. ‘Earth [...]

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Paper is one of those materials with endless possibilities. Which is why Israeli (and international) designers keep having fun reinventing them over and over again.
Last week we took a look at Guy Lougashi’s recycled paper baskets and recapped some of the other recycled paper products being made by environmentally conscious Israeli designers: wallets made [...]

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Zucchini flowers, or squash blossoms (for culinary purposes these are interchangeable), are one of those off-the-supermarket-beaten-path ingredients you tend to find only at farmers’ markets or fancy restaurants. (Or Italy, though that doesn’t really help most of us all that much.)
This elusiveness means that if you do come into a supply - either because you’ve [...]

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So the Green Prophets in Focus series continues! Next up is Jesse Fox, a seasoned veteran of the green blogosphere.
In addition to being a Prophet-in-residence here, Jesse shares his wealth of environmental wisdom on Treehugger.
He is also studying urban and regional planning in the Technion Institute in Haifa–and we know he’ll use his powers for [...]

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More often than not the bigger package is the better deal. Don’t believe me? Check for yourself. Even in Israel where it is harder to find the “supersavings” in a regular supermarket the bigger package will more likely give you bigger bang for your buck. The eco-benefit is that you’ll be saving on packaging as [...]

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I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I didn’t know that cigarette butts were an environmental issue. I’m also not a smoker, so I never gave it much thought. But Hanan Shteingart - co-founder of “Eretz Lelo Bdalim” (Country Without Cigarette Butts) and anti-cigarette butt activist extraordinaire - recently brought our attention [...]

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Roasting in the summer, freezing in the winter? Welcome to life in my Jerusalem apartment, and thousands of others like it. But if buildings are built according to the environmental and climatic principles, it doesn’t have to be that way.
“Jerusalem has virtually the perfect temperature for houses,” explained green architecture consultant, Valentina Nelin when I [...]

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