Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Business & Politics on Dec 1st, 2008
Eight months ago, Israeli environmental veterans founded Tnua Yeruka, or the Green Movement. Led by Eran Ben-Yemini, the founder of the student environmental movement Megama Yeruka, and by veteran Israeli environmentalist Alon Tal, Tnua Yeruka aims to marry the values of the green worldview with those of traditional left-wing parties, such as reducing the gaps [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Nov 24th, 2008
The battle for the Jerusalem Municipality may be over (secular candidate Nir Barkat victorious over haredi rival Meir Porush or, in my view at least, a choice between dumb and dumber), but the struggle for the city’s environment is just beginning.
Last week Green Prophet told you that Naomi Tsur, former head of SPNI Jerusalem and [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Nov 16th, 2008
No. 3 on Mayor-elect Nir Barkat’s winning list, Naomi Tzur is going to be spearheading any changes the city makes to beautify the city in the near future. Formal head of SPNI’s Jerusalem office and founder of the Sustainable Jerusalem, a coalition of 60 environmental groups is now going to tackle those same issues but [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 5th, 2008
The chief scientist of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Yishayahu Bar-Or, released a statement yesterday Aug. 4, (and here [in Hebrew]) warning of the well known consequences of global warming that are expected in Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean.
These include a rise in average temperature of 1.8 degrees Celsius already by 2020, a rise [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 5th, 2008
Okay, first the bad news.
Well, perhaps we’d had better warn you that there is no good news in this piece: A new campaign has been launched in the UK by the NEF (new economics foundation) warning the world that according to their analysis, the world is just 100 months away from reaching the tipping point [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Jul 23rd, 2008
One of the wonderful elements of the open market is that we actually do have the power to make changes.
You don’t like the way a store treats its customers? Tell your friends to complain. If that store is smart, it will change it’s ways. This can be applied to environmental products as well.
If [...]
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