Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Business & Politics on Jan 5th, 2008
It wasn’t that long ago when wild beasts roamed the earth. Lions, tigers, woolly haired mammoths and even elephants traipsed over the changing ecology of the Middle East up to the start of the early 15th century. Lions remain as the roaring yet watchful emblem of Jerusalem.
Now humans are the wild beasts that dominate, and [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Jan 5th, 2008
Being such a small place, you’d think Israel would be a simple place to get around on less than four wheels. But, alas, this is not the case since it’s cities and roads continuously choked with traffic. So it’s reassuring to hear that more Israelis are swapping their polluting automobiles for the most eco-friendly, not [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jan 3rd, 2008
For all of us green writers, here’s a creative & green challenge that came my way this week: a new US journal; Hawk and Handsaw - the Journal of Creativity & Sustainability, is starting up and invites writers and artists of all kinds to get creative on their sense of place.
My head is already overflowing [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Jan 3rd, 2008
Better known as the centre for three world religions, Jerusalem is increasingly becoming the focus for environmental activities and innovation. The start of 2008 will see the city hosting the launch of the Forum on Judaism and the Environment, a new initiative to bring together professionals, organisations and activists working in the field of Jewish [...]
Posted in Business & Politics, Travel & Nature on Jan 2nd, 2008
In a recent interview with this writer, Professor Pinhas Alpert, head of Tel Aviv University’s department of Geophysics and Planetary sciences, stated that “winters here in Israel are becoming warmer, with much less precipitation annually, and these extreme temperatures, at the minimum and maximum ends of the scale, also show a greater fluctuation between them.”Thats [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jan 2nd, 2008
Uprooting is a common theme in this part of the world: the Jewish Torah is compared to being a Tree of Life, and people who live in these parts are constantly struggling over land rights, and legitimizing why certain people should or shouldn’t settle here.Green Prophet is not going to enter the political debate, but [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Dec 31st, 2007
Tel Aviv is the first Israeli city, and the only city in the Middle East to join Earth Hour, a new worldwide campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Lights out for Tel Aviv will happen on March 29, 2008 at 8 pm, so get your solar-powered flashlights handy.
Tel Aviv joins cities in Denmark, Australia, the [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Dec 30th, 2007
One of the big issues when the topic of eating healthy comes up is the problem of food coloring. Many of these colorings are actually poisons. The FDA has approved them because they are used in such small quantities that there is no apparent effect on our bodies. But color dyes are not all bad; [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Dec 25th, 2007
Four days ago and in honor of the shortest day of the year, the Jerusalem Municipality covered the lights illuminating the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City with green filters–with the result that as we are writing this, the walls are glowing green against the night.
Why green? Apparently this special lighting, which was inaugurated in a [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Dec 24th, 2007
The other evening we were chatting with a friend from Hebrew Union College, which is located in the heart of Jerusalem’s city center.
She told us that the HUC students have taken the initiative to stop using disposable coffee cups and cutlery, in an effort to make their daily meals and beverages more eco-friendly.
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