Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Travel & Nature on Jan 3rd, 2008
Citizens and tourists rejoice: the Clean Coast Project of 2007 has ensured that we can hit those beaches in 2008. At least that’s according to the Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection, which reports that 80% of Israel’s beaches have been declared clean, with a mere 2% getting the dreaded rating of “dirty.”
This is is a [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Jan 2nd, 2009
(Plastic bags on the trees in Vietnam)
With the bombing and chaos in Israel and Gaza right now, it’s a little hard to focus on positive green news from the Middle East. My passion for it, is a little clouded by all the politics and news of violence. See my latest post on TreeHugger “When the [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Oct 5th, 2008
This green prophet is delighted to be in County Cork, in the truly green Republic of Eire - a place I lived in for roughly 5 years some years ago (up in the Northern wilds of County Donegal, mainly). Following on from a fellow prophet’s recent posting on the green initiatives of New Jersey, I’m [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Sep 2nd, 2008
This Prophet recently got the chance to travel to New York City, and was a little bit apprehensive about the green-ness factor of the Big Apple. For a city so notorious for its chic blacks and greys, we figured that a fairly untrendy color like green wouldn’t be too popular. We were wrong. Apparently green [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Oct 16th, 2008
You probably wouldn’t have oil-rich emirate, Abu Dhabi, pegged for environmental awareness. The United Arab Emirates are notorious for their abundance of fossil fuels and thus, sadly, do their fair share to contribute to carbon dioxide emissions.
This week, though, the state-owned Abu Dhabi Media Company announced that it would collaborate with National Geographic on between [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Jun 24th, 2008
Summer has, without a doubt, arrived in Israel. School is about to end, summer vegetables and fruits are in season, and there’s a greater desire to be outdoors.
Enter the Adam and Eve farm (or, in Hebrew, Hava & Adam) in Modiin, which offers lots of great ways to celebrate summer.
This educational-ecological center integrates social [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Jan 4th, 2009
While rockets fly overhead, Bat-Zion Benjaminson tends her garden. The religious mother of four hopes to establish an eco-village in the moshav (cooperative community) of Shokeda, which is located just six kilometers away from the border of Gaza.
According to Bat-Zion, the war being fought in the area is not just with rockets.
“This is an ecological [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Feb 11th, 2008
This post is devoted to the sheer joy of growing something, in this case, an organic gooseberry bush (Hebrew: Hazrazar) (Latin: Ribes Grossularia). Growing something - anything really, from a geranium stem, roughly transplanted and shoved in soil, to vegetables for your plate; can be a mystical experience. It mesmerizes, absorbs, transfixes … and continues [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Sep 10th, 2008
One of our favourite Green NGO’s in Israel, Bustan, are holding a special tree planting event tommorrow (Thursday the 11th of September) at Segev Shalom.
With the help of local Bedouin residents, Bustan are planting an orchard (bustan, Hebrew and Arabic) as the first event of their new ‘Tree’s For Life’ project, which aims to green [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Apr 15th, 2008
The tell-tale sign of an apartment being renovated in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem is the huge green dumpster holding piles of wood, doors, windows and tiles. Green Prophet says it’s time to reclaim some of those perfectly useful materials instead of sending them to landfill.
Why not bypass that trip to IKEA and create simple, [...]
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