Today’s book review, part of our ‘eco books review festival’, is by guest writer Gil Peled: Jerusalem-based Israeli eco-architect Gil (who trained in architecture in the wilds of deepest Scotland…), has been involved in planning and designing on the green scene in Israel for many years. His ongoing project is coordinating a Jerusalem apartment building [...]

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Freelance writer James Glave has successfully turned the planning and construction of a shed on his property in British Columbia into a thriving trade.
His book, “Almost Green,” his own blog site devoted to the book and his promotional activities selling it, coupled with the Facebook group and the website devoted to renting out the shed [...]

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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 [...]

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