Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Sep 16th, 2008
Last week in our Green Prophets in Focus Series, we interviewed our resident Eco-Mum Sophie Ohana.
This week, our focus is on Hamutal Dotan, our expert on all things culinary and delicious. Hamutal is currently working as a web editor in Toronto and aspires to be a full time writer.
Read about Hamutal’s thoughts on sustainable food, [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Sep 15th, 2008
Although Palestinian environmental activism is clearly on the rise, Palestinians still face a myriad of environmental and social challenges. These issues often have both ecological and political aspects; the current water shortage, for instance, is influenced both by global climate change and Israel’s policies in the West Bank.
This past year, a team of four British [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Sep 7th, 2008
If you choose to live in the heart of the Negev desert - or any desert for that matter - chances are, you’re pretty in touch with nature. Because you’re surrounded by it. There just aren’t any of the modern distractions that many of us know and love, like movies, frozen yogurt stands, etc.
But the [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Sep 3rd, 2008
It’s not just Morrissey and Paul McCartney who are on tour in Israel this summer, but Greenpeace’s legendary Rainbow Warrior ship is also paying the country a visit this weekend.
As part of its latest tour of the Mediterranean Sea, the well-travelled vessel (the original was sunk in 1985 protesting against nuclear weapons testing in the [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Aug 24th, 2008
So it’s the last week of the holidays and everybody is out shopping for the new school year. But do you really know what you are buying for your kids? Cheap and cheerful may be your number one priority but what about green and healthy?
Do you understand the hidden problems with those bright shiny, [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Aug 21st, 2008
There is a yearning for ecologically and environmentally responsible choices that I’ve been observing in Tel Aviv, especially among a select group of young, influential artists. There are continual hurdles for them, though, showing how sometimes thinking green and acting green don’t always go hand in hand.
Hayarkon 70 is a disparate group of artists [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 20th, 2008
It’s a drawback to being popular: Litter has become a big problem on the coast of the freshwater Kinneret lake (the Sea of Galilee).
To take charge of the problem, Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Israel Police force and the Kinneret Authority inaugurated a new environmental policing unit to clean up the coast.
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 17th, 2008
(Image credit marantzer)
Last Thursday fifty Muslim clerics gathered in Umm el-Fahm for a conference to raise awareness regarding environmental issues among imams. The first of its kind, the conference was an important stepping stone in improving the quality of the environment in Israeli-Arab towns.
Organized partially by the director of Environmental Quality Unit Northern Triangle and [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Jul 22nd, 2008
Regarded as one of, if not the, most respected environmental NGOs in Israel, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) has a lot to be proud of. Perhaps best known for its tours and field schools, it also works on grassroots community initiatives and tough campaigns, counting the defeat of the Safdie [...]
Posted in Business & Politics, Science & Technology on Jun 26th, 2008
From creating the world’s most popular puzzle website (and a Time Magazine top 50), Israeli-British entrepreneur and hightech whiz Gideon Greenspan decided to change gears and put a focus on the environment.
A couple of years ago, Gideon (who is based in Tel Aviv) was looking for a way to offset his travel and was confronted [...]
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