Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Nature, Sustainable Lifestyle on Jul 2nd, 2008
The summer is here and the kids are at home, if they are not at summer camp then you are probably hearing the words “I’m bored!” alot, if not too much. So how to keep your kids happy and green at the same time. In the next few weeks I hope to bring you some [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle, Urban on Jun 27th, 2008
(Retro second hand lights for sale in the Jaffa flea market)
We had just settled into a quiet cottage near the Dead Sea. Despite the 40-degree heat outside our windows, we were still excited about getting out to float in the mineral-rich salty water. My friends had their swimsuits on and were just out the door. [...]
Posted in Living Greener, Sustainable Lifestyle on Jun 18th, 2008
(image credit: giggul371)
Shavuot is best known as the holiday which commemorates the bestowal of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. It is also the celebration of the harvest of the Bikkurim, the first fruits of the year. Pomegranates and figs may come most easily to mind, but wheat is another of the Shiv’at Haminim, [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle, Urban 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 Culture & Design, Sustainable Lifestyle on Jun 11th, 2008
“Social Change is another form of fermentation. Ideas ferment, as they spread and mutate and inspire movements for change.”
I sat down to read Sandor Katz’s “Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods” to help me along with my recreational pickling and fermenting skills.
I was hoping to learn a bit [...]
Posted in Business & Technology, Sustainable Lifestyle, Urban on Jun 7th, 2008
Last week, Green Prophet reported from the Cleantech 2008 expo, the annual exhibition of environmentally-friendly technologies and innovations in Israel. The talk of the town (or Airport City, at least) was the sun, following the announcement that the Israel Electric Company is going to pay families producing clean energy via solar panels. The sun’s nemesis, [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle on Jun 1st, 2008
Borders, though an understood concept in the modern world, are anything but natural.
The truth is that although borders may physically and ideologically separate us, one of the things that we all share is that we are citizens of the earth. And caring about the environment is a concern that can unite us.
The internet, too, has [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle on May 30th, 2008
Green Prophet’s Karin who also blogs at Carbon Catablog recently made us aware of a carbon offsetting scheme here in the Middle East, named Libra/Sekem, which converts cash paid for carbon offsets into compost.
The project based in the Sharkia region of Egypt, turns coffee grinds, raw food scraps and more (read one of our super-enriched [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle on May 15th, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLw_QINf-E
Everyone knows how terrible plastic bags are. They take hundreds of years to biodegrade, pollute our landfills and waterways, and most plastic bags cannot be recycled (only 5% of plastic bags are actually recycled). To add insult to injury, it is cheaper to produce new plastic bags than to recycle existing ones.
The Council [...]
Posted in Sustainable Lifestyle on May 12th, 2008
Chemical burdens in our homes is an issue coming more and more to the forefront of news every day, yet more information comes to light about the threats posed by so many chemicals in our everyday products, from baby bottles to nursery furniture.
A while back I wrote about Nursery Madness and the huge amounts of [...]
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