Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Science & Technology on Aug 14th, 2008
Well, that depends on how you look at it…
Scientists are predicting that climate change will cause upheavals in the patterns of rainfall, drought, floods, and desertification. The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that temperatures in the Middle East have increased between 2-3 degrees Celsius in the last century, faster [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Aug 9th, 2008
It’s kind of ironic, but good news: As the world suffers from rising fuel costs and weighs the consequences of global warming, investors and oil barons in Dubai may play a pivotal role in a swift move towards green technology and alternative energy, reports Zawya.com.
Swati Taneja, a director from the Private Equity Forum which recently [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 8th, 2008
(Flickr image credit: shlevich)
Though not a significant supplier of alternative energy, yet, Israel is just about to get a little greener. The country aims to have 5% of its national energy supply come by way of the wind by 2012. Seems like it is on the way. According to Globes, the Public Utilities Authority has [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Aug 7th, 2008
Here in the Middle East, echoes of the Biblical prophets are never far off–even in environmental discourse.
Nowhere is that more apparent than in the famous cedars of Lebanon, which have been a wonder to the world for thousands of years, and were used to build King Solomon’s palace. Some of the remaining cedars in Lebanon [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jul 16th, 2008
My partner and I watched this movie with increasing incredulity and frustration. She is a former science journalist, and she won’t mind me telling you, gave up on ‘Sizzle’ after 15 minutes.
I sat through it all, and felt deflated after 85 minutes of this eco-baloney - filmmaker Randy Olson sets out to pick up [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on May 30th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on May 18th, 2008
We’ve been a little overwhelmed by American visitors in this tiny country lately. Earlier this month we were visited by President George Bush and now, for a completely different reason, Al Gore will be visiting Tel Aviv.
And what a reason.
In a gesture of respect and admiration, the Dan David Foundation (which is headquartered at Tel [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Apr 24th, 2008
Feeling gloomy and despondent about Climate Change? Do you feel, like my dear Welsh friend Tim in London whose default position on this (and everything) is that we are all “doomed”?
Well, we here at Green Prophet are all about finding optimistic solutions, and giving attention to some of the projects that are trying in [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Mar 22nd, 2008
“At a time when steadily increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, coupled with the acidification of the ocean’s waters, precipitate the ongoing process of global warming, the importance of following long-term changes and trends in aquatic photosynthesis increases dramatically,” say Dr. Ilana Berman-Frank and Prof. Zvy Dubinsky, of Bar-Ilan University.
This is important since about 50% of global [...]
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