Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Business & Politics on Nov 9th, 2008
Biotech companies in Israel are announcing layoffs. Global financial woes will no doubt filter through to the clean tech industry as well.
Atlantium, when I covered the company for ISRAEL21c last year they seemed so hopeful about the future… has also announced layoffs recently. Fifteen people were let go.
CEO Ilan Wilf said in Globes, [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Nov 5th, 2008
Now that Barack Obama is on his way to the White House and the US seems poised for a “New Green Deal”, could things start heading in that direction in Israel as well?
While on the national level, a new green party aims to secure a couple of seats in the Knesset, one of the outgoing Knesset’s most [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Oct 26th, 2008
Businesses play a huge role in our everyday impact on the environment. The way that businesses conduct themselves - ranging from what services or products they provide, to what means they use to provide them, and what kind of energy consumption habits they have - all effect their carbon footprint. And since we live in [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Oct 21st, 2008
Sunday’s New York Times featured an environmental article (”Extreme Approaches Toward Living a Green Life”) with an interesting twist. After describing what many everyday Americans, such as fellow green bloggers Sharon Astyk (of Casaubon’s Book) and Colin Beavan (of No Impact Man), do in their daily lives to alleviate their negative impact on the environment [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Oct 13th, 2008
If you were going to use one word to describe Israel, the word “construction” would be a definite possibility. Visitors who come to Israel within intervals of only a few years are often shocked at the rapid development in the country. At only 60 years old Israel is constantly building and developing, and sometimes it [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation, Religion on Oct 12th, 2008
Kids on bikes cruise past Azrieli towers.
A couple of years ago I read a book called Carfree Cities, which put forward a very convincing case for reducing the use of private cars in the city, and set out a whole series of design alternatives which, according to author J.H. Crawford, would obviate the need for [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Sep 28th, 2008
Tuesday, September 23 was Public Transportation Day in Israel, the local answer to European Mobility Week and World Carfree Day, an attempt to “remind the world that we don’t have to accept our car-dominated society.” In Europe, they managed to keep the cars off the streets for a few hours. In Israel, we will have [...]
Posted in Religion on Sep 21st, 2008
With the Jewish new year coming up in next week, some of us are thinking about green new year’s resolutions and lifestyle changes that we’d like to make. Whether its recycling more items or starting a compost heap, there’s no such thing as a small difference.
But what about greening your celebration of Rosh Hashanah? How [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Sep 15th, 2008
It was bound to happen, sooner or later. After the kibbutz - the classic Israeli collective community where members shared everything - urban car sharing services were only a hop, skip, and a car engine purr away.
Thanks to new Israeli company, Car2go, the concept of car sharing (which has already enjoyed great success all over [...]
Posted in Business & Politics, Lifestyle & Culture on Sep 5th, 2008
UPDATE: DOV KHENIN’S NIGHT AT CITYTREE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 at 9 pm.
Dov Khenin, Tel Aviv’s greenest mayoral candidate, will be speaking this Monday in Hebrew at Etz BaIr (CityTree), which is on Bialik Street 23 in Tel Aviv.
Khenin is currently a Knesset Member representing Hadash, a joint Jewish-Arab Communist party. [...]
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