Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in News & Politics on Oct 9th, 2008
Karnit Goldwasser is most commonly known as the widow of IDF soldier Ehud Goldwasser, who was abducted by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement during the Second Lebanon-Israel War. Before that tragedy took place, however, she was busy doing things other than lobby for the release of her husband and his fellow soldiers. She was busy getting a [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, News & Politics on Aug 14th, 2008
“Nature is a language - can’t you read? Nature is a language - can’t anybody read?”
Morrissey & Marr: The Smiths, ‘Ask’ (1986) as played live in Tel Aviv last week.
We here at Green Prophet don’t often blow our own green shofar, but it’s always good to get praise from others, particularly when it’s in the [...]
Posted in News & Politics on Jul 13th, 2008
As a thirsty greenie living in Israel, I try to avoid buying bottled water, and instead have recently purchased a very cool stainless steel water bottle - made in the US by Klean Kanteen. But sometimes it’s difficult to avoid buying some water in plastic bottles - although after reading this story, I will think [...]
Posted in Business & Technology on May 14th, 2008
They say hope floats. Israel’s premiere environmental architecture firm Geotectura has certainly taken this statement to heart. Joseph Cory a designer at Geotectura, has worked with an aerospace engineer, to develop floating solar balloons capable of collecting solar energy in crowded cityscapes and places where large solar panels are not a viable alternative. They [...]
Posted in News & Politics on Jan 8th, 2008
Environmental Energy Resources, Ltd. (EER) is using Israeli-developed technology to set up Romania’s first plasma waste treatment facility. The system was developed by scientists at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and the claim is that it can handle radioactive and medical waste as well as the more conventional kinds. Cost of the project: $30 [...]
Posted in Culture & Design on Jan 7th, 2008
Two Architecture lecturers from the Technion Institute in Haifa have designed a high-rise sustainable energy apartment complex that includes greenhouses for all its residents, and are building it in Wuhan Province, China.
Tagit Klimor and David Knafo, who also run their own architectural practise Knafo Klimor, with offices in Tel Aviv and Haifa, believe in the [...]
Posted in Business & Technology, News & Politics on Jan 3rd, 2008
Ironically, for a planet that over 70% of it’s surface is covered by water, water is becoming quite a commodity. While it may be true that the black gold of 20th century is being phased out, the new liquid gold, it appears, is Blue Gold aka water. According to an article published in USA Today, [...]
Posted in Business & Technology on Dec 19th, 2007
Energy, we all need it for practically everything we do.
With global warming accelerating and fossil fuels expected to run out in decades, the hunt is on for alternative energy sources.
Professor Dan Zaslavsky from the Technion in Haifa has come up with a solution – the Energy Tower – which will not only reduce the [...]
Posted in Living Greener on Dec 16th, 2007
Outdoor vegetable gardens are nice, but as it turns out, they are so 2007. Now Technion Institute researchers Tagit Klimor and David Knafo have developed a design for high-rise apartments that will have their own self-sustaining greenhouses.
The greenhouse spaces will enable families to grow produce for their own consumption, with enough left over to generate [...]
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