Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Feb 9th, 2008
Character vs. flash: An old building in the city center, and a shiny, new Aroma.
What gives a city its particular character? Is it the city’s architecture, its parks and open spaces, its scents, its people?
An article in Ha’aretz’s Real Estate section last week did a pretty good job of conjuring up downtown Jerusalem [...]
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 Business & Politics on Jan 31st, 2008
Jerusalem, the Holy City for three religions, is often known as Jerusalem of Gold due to the yellowy-pink stones from which the buildings are cut. Until the winter that is. We’ve had heavy snowfall in the city this past 24 hours covering it in white and leaving schools, businesses and buses at a standstill (check [...]
Posted in Fashion & Design on Jan 30th, 2008
Green Prophet welcomes our latest writer, Eco-Mum Sophie Ohana. We’ve blogged about her new organic baby clothes company Tinok Yarok here before. Sophie is going to be writing a weekly post on different tips for greening your baby. This week she starts with nursery furniture. Read on.
Writes Sophie:Being a mum at the best of [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jan 14th, 2008
I love composting. It is pure satisfaction for anyone remotely interested in growing things, and watching how things can grow, sprout, shoot up, and also decay, die and rot. When you turn the soil, and see the half-eaten tomato, or ear of corn, or artichoke leaves from a recent dinner, and know that they are [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jan 11th, 2008
It’s Friday, and hey we like videos. Here is a short movie on an Israeli green achievement: the dud shemesh. Israelis were quick to adopt the low-tech technology which uses heat from the sun to warm sink and bathwater.We are pretty sure that the invention was pioneered elsewhere. But that doesn’t stop us from puffing [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jan 11th, 2008
Some people call for Israel to be wiped off the map. We say, put us down on a Green Map. That’s just what a local NGO SPNI and students from Green Course in Jerusalem have done (see the above video). Green Maps is an international enterprise, that lets locals and visitors literally map out ecological [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Jan 11th, 2008
Hot on the heels (or should that be, ‘wheels’) of the news that bicycle use is on the rise in Tel Aviv, the municipality in Israel’s second city has just announced that it is launching a ‘pay and ride’ bike rental system.Last week, Green Prophet reported that bike use in the city shot up by [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Jan 10th, 2008
Travelling anywhere in Israel from the Holy City isn’t going to be easy on the day President Bush arrives, but it is a perfect day for experiencing the low carbon pleasure of train travel. For a start, Malcha station at 9 a.m is empty - it seems many commuters, tourists or day-trippers have left earlier, [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Jan 9th, 2008
It was neat to see the billboards are off of Ilan Pivko’s tower, in Tel Aviv today. The Ayalon Highway is pretty much free from all of the billboard clutter. In light of Ilana’s post yesterday, we thought we’d post this little ditty that we wrote for Heeb Magazine this summer, before they canned their [...]
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