Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Nov 29th, 2008
A day before Buy Nothing Day (today), an American salesman lost his life, as bargain hunters in a Wal-Mart shop in Long Island trampled him to death. No one was going to get in the way of a good deal: shoppers walked on and killed the 34 year-old, while pushing their way through the door [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Dec 17th, 2008
In an overwhelming world of online social networks a new Israeli/Environmental network has emerged called “GreenChange“ using the Ning.com platform.
The organization behind GreenChange is the “Heschel Center for Environmental learning and leadership“, which celebrates it’s 10th anniversary today.
Its goal is to create an online environment where environmentalists can meet, share ideas and information as well [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jul 16th, 2008
Due to not having a yard and feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt every time I throw away my food scraps in a conventional garbage, I spent my first few months in Tel Aviv trying to figure out some plausible composting options in the city. This was harder than expected because so many Israelis have [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Feb 3rd, 2008
It’s hardly surprising that “Survivor” is a hit: who doesn’t come home from work and immediately hunger to watch white trash in bikini tops hurling bleeped insults at each other over a picturesque campfire? Is it just us?
Anyway, it turns out that “Survivor” is not just the last refuge of the dregs of every culture; [...]
Posted in Book Reviews 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 Lifestyle & Culture on May 14th, 2008
If you love the moving image as much as us here at Green Prophet, and believe in its power as an agent of change as well as information and entertainment, here’s advance notice of the 5th ‘Eco-Cinema Festival’, which opens tommorrow night at Jerusalem’s Cinematecque on Hebron Road. Opening with Israeli director Uri Rosenwaks new [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Apr 24th, 2008
Feeling gloomy and despondent about Climate Change? Do you feel, like my dear Welsh friend Tim in London whose default position on this (and everything) is that we are all “doomed”?
Well, we here at Green Prophet are all about finding optimistic solutions, and giving attention to some of the projects that are trying in [...]
Posted in Book Reviews 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 Religion on Apr 14th, 2008
Spring is here at last which also means the festival of Passover is soon upon us. Many Jewish festivals represent an opportunity to reflect on our ecological and ethical footprints and this is especially true on Pesach when our thoughts fall on the issues of our food, freedom and those who have none to take [...]
Posted in Religion on Mar 13th, 2008
Food is never something lacking at Jewish celebrations, but, like most things in life, their environmental footprint keeps expanding, whether the factory-farmed chicken that ends up in the soup pan, or the throwaway plastic cutlery destined to spend the next few centuries in a landfill site.
Our friends at Jewish eco-NGO, Hazon, have devised a guide [...]
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