Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jan 11th, 2008
It’s Friday, and hey we like videos. Here is a short movie on an Israeli green achievement: the dud shemesh. Israelis were quick to adopt the low-tech technology which uses heat from the sun to warm sink and bathwater.We are pretty sure that the invention was pioneered elsewhere. But that doesn’t stop us from puffing [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jan 6th, 2009
Last week we wrote about Kibbutz Kramim, a cooperative in the Negev that is currently working on building a multicultural model of environmental sustainability in the form of an eco village.
And this week we’d like to introduce you to Elias Messinas, the green architect behind the operation.
Messinas’ firm is the strategic environmental consultant to [...]
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 Architecture & Urban on Jul 28th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban, Fashion & Design on Jan 12th, 2008
The hot environmental topic this season, seems to be about banning the bag - the plastic bag that is.Zalul ’s blog Clear has reported on it this week and has provided a link (in Hebrew) where you can sign a petition to get the plastic bag banned in Israel.San Fran has done it, so has [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban, Business & Politics on Jan 12th, 2008
We have never seen these “green police” in action, but we’d like to believe that they exist, if only in our dreams. This video is a cheesy commercial for Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry police, and what they will do to you if you pollute. Watch out! It’s in Hebrew, which makes their Cops-esque slogan sound [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Feb 18th, 2008
I can go on “home-binges” where I will coop myself up inside for days at a time. There can be the productive kind where I’m a workhorse and so do not get out. There are other times when it’s just out of laze… After one of these binges my house will inevitably end up a pigsty.
This [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jun 4th, 2008
You wouldn’t generally think of Tel Aviv as a green oasis. A nightlife oasis, yes. A beachy oasis, yes. A trendy oasis, yeah, you could call it that too. But when you’re walking on busy Allenby Street or Dizengoff - the natural environment is probably the furthest thing from your urban [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Sep 18th, 2008
Cutting Edge Architectural Design - Innovative Power Generation
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Feb 17th, 2008
(In Hebrew)
Channel One’s Yoman reports on the struggle by residents of Florentine, a neighborhood in south Tel Aviv, against the city’s building plans in the area. The city wants to build a ring of skyscrapers encircling the adjacent Neve Tzedek neighborhood, as well as a new neighborhood in Florentine that would include buildings up to [...]
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