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Channel One’s Yoman reports on the struggle by residents of Florentine, a neighborhood in south Tel Aviv, against the city’s building plans in the area. The city wants to build a ring of skyscrapers encircling the adjacent Neve Tzedek neighborhood, as well as a new neighborhood in Florentine that would include buildings up to [...]

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Israelis are known for their advances in high-tech. We brag about it whenever we can. A little known fact is that Israel also generates and exports tons of e-waste. Bringing things up to speed is an Israeli company, Snunit Recycling, which is poised to make a pretty penny from our electronic waste. And we don’t [...]

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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 [...]

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Kids in Beit Shemesh schools–religious and secular alike–will soon be learning about environmental issues. A new initiative on the part of Sviva Israel, a religious environmental NGO, is bringing discussion of ecological topics into the classroom.
In particular, kids will learn how to recognize their “ecological footprint” and be encouraged to tread lightly with some practical [...]

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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 [...]

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One of my more vivid childhood memories is of the drive across the George Washington Bridge from New York to New Jersey, and zoning out to stare at what seemed like an endless procession of towering billboards displaying images of shiny cars, shiny models, and shiny promises of success.
Seriously, is there a kid in [...]

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When I moved to Israel I started to understand, that not everywhere in the world things are going the same way. I grew up in Germany, where the convenience of a quiet and more or less unworried life, enables politicians to talk and act in terms of environment. Water saving, recycling and other environmental issues [...]

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