Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Business & Politics on Mar 22nd, 2008
It seems that we’ve been too spend-thrifty with our water and it’s all running out. By the end of this year, if we do not do something drastic the water levels will become so low that our natural water sources will become polluted.
What is our government doing towards a solution? “By the end of the [...]
Posted in Fashion & Design on Mar 21st, 2008
Back in January I wrote about the ‘Tread Lightly’ environmental project run by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK, (you can read the previous post here) and promised an update, so 3 months later, I’ve reviewed my pledges and progress, and that of the entire community who signed up - to date, 4209 folk [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Mar 21st, 2008
The Earth has a memory. It has records of African flowers blooming in the summer; it remembers cold, desolate Arctic winters since winters began, and the spawning of coral in the Great Barrier Reef one night, every spring.
I remember my first lesson as a child, on how the Earth remembers. The teacher had brought in [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Jan 20th, 2008
Controversial Danish Eco-Skeptic Bjorn Lomborg is currently in Israel.
Today he is due to present a lecture at the Knesset arguing that funds set aside for environmental protection would be better spent on research and development for the “possible” negative effects of global warming.Professor Lomborg, author of the book, ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’, which ruffled many green [...]
Posted in Fashion & Design on Jan 7th, 2008
We are sure that Yael Mer’s “Evacuation Skirt” was designed tongue-in-cheek. Or was it?
Conceived after the New Orleans hurricane and flood, says Yael: “The skirt keeps its glamorous look when it’s deflated on the one hand, and on the other, it inflates into a kayak with the right amount of volume to carry a grown [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Dec 25th, 2007
We not only made it to the list of top Earth-Hackers of 2007, we also made it to spot 25 of Discover Magazine’s list of Top Science Stories of 2007!
A team of Israeli atmospheric scientists from Tel Aviv University explored the influence of intense lightning storms from East Africa on the world weather patterns.
They discovered that “More than 90% of [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Dec 25th, 2007
Afraid that this planet is doomed? Before global warming sets in, how about shooting a sample of your DNA into outer space? For a mere $87 you have the chance of being immortalized. Maybe your genes will drift back down to earth in a couple of billion years when the earth has calmed down. Or [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Dec 22nd, 2007
Everyone and their mother is doing it. Talking about global warming, that is. Stumbling around the net, we bumped into this YouTube video sponsored by the Jewish National Fund, which links nicely to our last post on tree planting in Israel.
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Dec 22nd, 2007
There is a lot of talk these days about carbon footprints. And there is much debate over how people can reduce theirs.
A carbon footprint is essentially the amount of CO2 a person leaves behind as a result of personal transportation (cars and plane), heating their homes and even putting food on their tables.
That’s why a [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Dec 20th, 2007
There has been a buzz in the news over the past few days. This buzzing is over how three Israelis have made it into an exclusive list of Scientific American’s ‘50 most significant scientific breakthroughs in 2007.’
Making that list is not our only ‘top’ accomplishment for this year. An Israeli scientist has [...]
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