Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Book Reviews, News & Politics on Jul 24th, 2008
Israel’s fastest-growing supermarket chain is the upscale Tiv Taam, where customers can browse shelves of international beers, pick through extensive cheese selections and even purchase pancetta to include in their gourmet dishes at home. At Hinnawi, a Yafo-based butcher with a branch inside the shopping mall in Ramat Aviv, customers can choose between 17 kinds [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Jul 24th, 2008
The word “organic” can be applied to many things in our modern day lives. Most commonly, it applies to food that has been grown organically (meaning without pesticides). But as a quick search in Webster’s dictionary showed us, the term organic means “of, relating to, or derived from living organisms.”
And Tel Aviv’s “Don’t Panic It’s [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Jul 21st, 2008
We’ve heard of environmentally conscious Israeli designers doing some pretty crazy stuff with paper. Green Lullaby makes EcoCradles out of cardboard paper, Amit Brilliant turns used paper wrappers into wallets, and Erez Mulai transforms wasted paper into wastepaper baskets.
While we think these designers are great and love their work, none of them has reinvented [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Jul 18th, 2008
Clever design, whether environmentally friendly or not, is something that everyone can appreciate. Who doesn’t love a passport case made out of map shower curtains, or a pencil sharpener that looks like an alligator? But we think that environmentally friendly design is almost always clever by default, because it reuses existing materials in [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Jul 16th, 2008
My partner and I watched this movie with increasing incredulity and frustration. She is a former science journalist, and she won’t mind me telling you, gave up on ‘Sizzle’ after 15 minutes.
I sat through it all, and felt deflated after 85 minutes of this eco-baloney - filmmaker Randy Olson sets out to pick up [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Nature, News & Politics on Jul 10th, 2008
“The crisis is at root one of perception; we no longer see the cosmos as alive, nor do we any longer recognise that we are inseperable from the whole of nature, and from our earth as a living being. But there is hope, for as the crisis deepens, the call of anima mundi intensifies.”
Stephan Harding, [...]
Posted in Culture & Design, News & Politics on Jul 8th, 2008
For whatever reason, the Ipod and its classic white earphones have become a symbol of music and street cool. People use them on the street, on the bus, on the train, in a plane… they’re everywhere.
But Ipods just aren’t Israeli designer Inbal Dayagi’s style. Nope. She’s too funky and too green for [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, News & Politics on Jul 2nd, 2008
This is the first book I’ve read in a long time that I have felt so conflicted about.
I bought it after having seen it prominently displayed in UK bookshops, and having read some of the author’s incisive political writings in The New Yorker.
I anticipated that it would be illuminating and instructive, and expected it to [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Jul 2nd, 2008
In the spirit of using every possible material available and avoiding waste, Israeli designer Zohar Yarom has found a creative and functional purpose for furniture fabric samples. She makes handbags out of them.
After receiving degrees in design from the Bezalel school in Jerusalem and Parson’s in New York, Zohar founded her own ZY design [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Jun 29th, 2008
All of us green folk know that trash is a serious thing. It takes up space, pollutes our waterways, doesn’t decompose, and produces harmful gases. But there ain’t nothing serious about Merav Feiglin’s Trashlights. Nope, not even close.
Merav, who also creates other environmentally friendly art such as mosaics, altered books, and collages, [...]
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