Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Fashion & Design on Feb 20th, 2008
With eight steady writers and up to several new posts a day, Green Prophet is growing exponentially and helping to make the world just a little greener (we hope). In less than two months we have acquired a substantial following from all over the world.
There are several ways to keep the green love flowing, as [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Feb 19th, 2008
“I will open rivers on the bare heights and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land fountains of water”
Isaiah
Always ready and willing to go to the heights and depths for a good story, this intrepid greenie spent part of yesterday with a [...]
Posted in Green Living Tips on Feb 19th, 2008
Try to buy in bulk from warehouse stores or the shuk. Often these items come in big jars which you can use. But even if you cannot, you’ll often find that they offer items that have less packaging and therefore have less trash when you are done using them. An added benefit is that it can [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Feb 18th, 2008
This year in Israel is a shmitta year, meaning that there are certain prohibitions when working the land. But as far as we’ve read that doesn’t extend to cultivating potted plants and veggies on your balconies. Here is a story about our experiences with city gardening in Tel Aviv: it’s good for the soul.
Every morning [...]
Posted in Religion on Feb 13th, 2008
It once happened that a farmer was removing stones from his field and putting them onto a public thoroughfare. There was a certain pious person who challenged the farmer: “Why are you taking stones from what is not yours and putting them onto what belongs to you?” The farmer just laughed.
Posted in Fashion & Design on Feb 7th, 2008
“Sometimes you’ve just got to act” is a personal motto of two enterprising environmental activists, Devora Liss & Shoshannah Finkelman, who have initiated the Jerusalem Of Green Project, based at the Mercaz HaMagshimim (New Immigrant Absorption and Community Centre) in Jerusalem’s German Colony.The JOG Project mentors anyone who has an idea for an environmental [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jan 30th, 2008
This recently published book’s full title is ‘A Crack in the Earth: A Journey up Israel’s Rift Valley,’ and it is just that; in 2004 Jerusalem-based writer and translator Haim Watzman took 2 weeks to travel up the Jordan Valley from Eilat in the south to Kiryat Shmonah in the far north, meeting a wide [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Jan 22nd, 2008
Last week, we set off in search of time out from hectic, sometime frazzled lives in the Holy City. Some 2 hours later, we arrived at the gate of The Castle in Kerem Maharal, an 11th Century Crusader castle, nestling within a moshav of the same name, deep within the Hof Harcarmel forest, between Haifa [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Jan 21st, 2008
It could only happen in 2008. During the year of Shmitta, which is every seven years, Jewish law dictates that we not work the land of Israel in any way.The Jewish National Fund customarily organizes tree-planting activities that attract thousands of people in honor of Tu B’Shvat…but not during Shmitta.
Posted in Religion on Jan 17th, 2008
In Judaism it is traditional to make blessings. In fact sometimes it can feel, for the initiated, that one makes blessings for everything! It can be inconvenient, however, I believe that what lies behind, is the true nature of what it means to be green.
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