Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Business & Politics on Apr 8th, 2008
Mathis Wackernagel, Phd, co-creator of the term ‘Ecological Footprint’, will be in Israel on Thursday, speaking at a Tel Aviv University Porter Environmental School presentation.
Wackernagel completed his doctorate in Community & Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his thesis research led to his development of the concept of [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Apr 6th, 2008
For better or for worse, Israel has become a leader in the technology industry. Innovations like solar power and drip-irrigation help to conserve scarce natural resources.
But on the other hand, chemical-dependent intensive farming has polluted Israel’s soil and groundwater, not to mention putting the safety of farmers at risk of exposure to pesticides.
So [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Feb 14th, 2008
Israel has lured climate Change evangelist Al Gore to the Holy Land.
Come May, Gore is expected to drop in at Tel Aviv University to collect a $1 million in prize booty awarded by the Dan David Foundation.
It is reported that Gore will donate all the prize money to a good environmental cause.
::ISRAEL21c
Posted in Science & Technology on Feb 12th, 2008
We’ve talked about the wonders of bamboo, but another material, being researched and improved by Israeli scientists may become the new bamboo, the new hemp and the new wood. Watch Jonathan Dayan from Tel Aviv University talk about his PhD research on kenaf.
Posted in Business & Politics on Jan 8th, 2008
The Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University is looking for a few good green men and women. Think you have what it takes to become a fellow? The school is seeking fellowship candidates for a potential faculty position.
The fine folks at Porter have sent us a note that they are advertising spaces [...]
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 Business & Politics on Jan 2nd, 2008
“Israelis are tremendously committed to the environment. We can move mountains if optimism motivates us.”
Alon Tal founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense (IUED) in 1990 and has been working in public interest advocacy ever since. In 1996, he founded the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, an advanced academic center where Israeli, Jordanian, Palestinian, and [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jan 1st, 2008
Poetry lovers take note: from January 8-9, Tel Aviv University will be hosting a conference on literature and the environment, entitled “Poetic Natures: The Environment, Literature and the Arts. ” Guests include US Poet Laureate Robert Hass, a National Book Award Winner and Una Chaudhuri, Professor of English, Drama and Performance Studies at New York [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Dec 25th, 2007
We not only made it to the list of top Earth-Hackers of 2007, we also made it to spot 25 of Discover Magazine’s list of Top Science Stories of 2007!
A team of Israeli atmospheric scientists from Tel Aviv University explored the influence of intense lightning storms from East Africa on the world weather patterns.
They discovered that “More than 90% of [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Dec 16th, 2007
(Parking at Rabin Square and pool of water in the parking lot.)
People who live in Israel and who have to negotiate its roads might not feel that they have arrived in Gan Eden (”Eden”). As the standard of living increases on a yearly basis, so does the number of cars and parking lots. Any [...]
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