Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Fashion on Jun 25th, 2008
Summer is here, the pools are open and the sea is beckoning. Let’s pack our bags get our swimsuits and go for a swim. Going to the pool or beach with your little ones can be great fun, a fabulous way to cool down and relax with the kids and helps build their confidence in [...]
Posted in Fashion, News & Politics on Jun 16th, 2008
Last week we wrote about an environmentally conscious window display in Tel Aviv designed by Shulayim Studio, but the store that the window belonged to - Cotton - is news worthy as well.
Cotton started making a limited line of clothes in 1992 with the goal of creating pieces that are unique, comfortable, woman-friendly, environmentally-friendly, and [...]
Posted in Fashion on Jun 15th, 2008
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the organic baby in the baby carriage. Today we would like to welcome, the guest post of Avi Yacove who has just helped give life to Baby Organic, a new online baby’s clothing store based in Israel.
Writes Avi: Baby Organic came to mind as an idea of [...]
Posted in Business & Technology, Culture & Design, News & Politics, Urban on Jun 3rd, 2008
Forget the eco-friendly lightbulbs. Arik Levy’s got a new solution: Teaming up with couture lighting company Saazs and other noted designers, the invention is light-emitting glass plates. Apparently something called “planilum technology”, which sounds like its straight from a work of science fiction or comic book, enables the glass itself to emit light. And cutting-edge [...]
Posted in Education, Living Greener on May 9th, 2008
Here at Green Prophet we regularly publicize the bigger recycling initiatives around the country that we hear about, like our recent posts on Plastic Bags & Art Recycling , Smell the Recycled Roses, and Abu Yoyo: Closing the Loop in Banner Advertising.
While we hope these large scale inspiring projects keep coming, and we salute [...]
Posted in Culture & Design, News & Politics on May 7th, 2008
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness
-Mahatma Gandhi
It was my first year of university and I had just settled into city life. There were lots of friends, parties - a great social scene. Burdened by the cost of having to support myself, I eyed the fancy clothes [...]
Posted in News & Politics on Apr 14th, 2008
There is a renewed interest for Israelis to go back to their desert-dwelling roots. Maybe today’s post will inspire more…
Ten miles from Mexico, nestled in a humid valley in Arizona we arrive in Canelo for a straw bale building workshop. This is a place where 11 year olds drive, breakfast with songstress Barbara [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Apr 11th, 2008
Though I’ve been busy with my mom visiting, I haven’t forgotten the fun at last weekend’s HaSalon Israeli designer home accessories fair in Tel Aviv. And that’s because one of these supergreat industrial crate benches is now in my living room.
Lool 82 is an Israeli design collective that creates funky home accessories from benches and [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Apr 11th, 2008
The ever-useful blog Life Goggles, is enamored with Yael Mer’s evacuation kayak skirt and slipper rocker inventions which first appeared here on Green Prophet.
And of course, the wildly popular StickyStains of Yael’s boyfriend Shay Alkalay, who we featured in an Israel21c article here.
Today, take a gander at an extension of [...]
Posted in Urban on Apr 1st, 2008
Want to know the best place to cloud-gaze in Canada, how to recycle bottles in Berlin, or where you can climb into a treehouse in Tel Aviv? The Green Map System gives us another way of looking at our world — and the movement is starting to take hold in Israel. (See our last post [...]
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