Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Food & Health on Nov 8th, 2008
With America’s and the world’s financial markets going belly up, it will be interesting to see what happens to the carbon market. Smart CEOs will realize that a less carbon intensive business is better for the bottom line, as most companies can kick a lot of wasteful carbon habits, simply by doing a carbon audit. [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Oct 29th, 2008
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals’ Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Oct 26th, 2008
Businesses play a huge role in our everyday impact on the environment. The way that businesses conduct themselves - ranging from what services or products they provide, to what means they use to provide them, and what kind of energy consumption habits they have - all effect their carbon footprint. And since we live in [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Oct 21st, 2008
Sunday’s New York Times featured an environmental article (”Extreme Approaches Toward Living a Green Life”) with an interesting twist. After describing what many everyday Americans, such as fellow green bloggers Sharon Astyk (of Casaubon’s Book) and Colin Beavan (of No Impact Man), do in their daily lives to alleviate their negative impact on the environment [...]
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 Book Reviews on Aug 20th, 2008
In this week’s green book review, guest reviewer Rabbi Julian Sinclair unpicks the recent ‘Breakthrough’ by US writers Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger.
Last month Al Gore gave a rousing speech on climate change, throwing down an audacious challenge to the American people. By 2020, Gore declared, let American by powered [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 18th, 2008
How many shades of green can a Jaffa orange be? Israeli fruit and vegetable grower and supplier Mehadrin (owned by Hadarim, a property and building group, and a succession of other parent companies) is working with British supermarket chain Tesco in a bid to mark all its Jaffa oranges with the Carbon Trust label, a [...]
Posted in Green Living Tips on Jul 31st, 2008
Offsetting alone won’t save our planet but it certainly isn’t anything to scoff at.
There are many ways to offset. But probably the best way to offset is to educate others. You wont only be cutting back on ways you are damaging our planet but you will be helping others take that first step.
Find out more [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Jun 26th, 2008
There are lots of green businesses out there - cleantech businesses, organic farmers, environmentally conscious designers, and plenty more. But what about businesses with no clear environmental agenda? What’s a software company or a furniture manufacturer that wants to go green supposed to do?
Hire a greener. A business greener, that is.
Erez Steinberg, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jun 18th, 2008
“We face the most almighty hangover, as the toxins unleashed by our century-long binge work their way through the earth’s system. We have to detoxify. We have to sober up. We have to come to grips….”
from ‘Confessions of an Eco-Sinner’ by Fred Pearce.
Pearce has written a book for the ecologically and socially minded. He [...]
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