Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Fashion & Design on Jan 7th, 2008
We are sure that Yael Mer’s “Evacuation Skirt” was designed tongue-in-cheek. Or was it?
Conceived after the New Orleans hurricane and flood, says Yael: “The skirt keeps its glamorous look when it’s deflated on the one hand, and on the other, it inflates into a kayak with the right amount of volume to carry a grown [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jan 5th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Jan 5th, 2008
Being such a small place, you’d think Israel would be a simple place to get around on less than four wheels. But, alas, this is not the case since it’s cities and roads continuously choked with traffic. So it’s reassuring to hear that more Israelis are swapping their polluting automobiles for the most eco-friendly, not [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Dec 31st, 2007
Tel Aviv is the first Israeli city, and the only city in the Middle East to join Earth Hour, a new worldwide campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Lights out for Tel Aviv will happen on March 29, 2008 at 8 pm, so get your solar-powered flashlights handy.
Tel Aviv joins cities in Denmark, Australia, the [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Dec 31st, 2007
Israelis are coming around and getting into the recycling spirit. We couldn’t hold ourselves back from posting again on Groovy, the designers mentioned yesterday for their multi-purpose matcot chair. Today’s find is a record business card holder. While records are pretty much obselete in this part of the world (unless you are a DJ), business [...]
Posted in Fashion & Design, Lifestyle & Culture on Dec 30th, 2007
Israelis love playing matkot. Though we are Israeli, we weren’t born here and have yet to learn how to appreciate the national sport, best played in one’s tighty whities on the beaches of Tel Aviv.Thanks to our new friend at Designist Dream, we found links to the creations of Groovy (Danit & Yinnon Simhi). There [...]
Posted in Fashion & Design on Dec 30th, 2007
We stumbled onto Designist Dream last week “where art and design and the Holy Land meet,” after the missus in the house gave Green Prophet such a warm welcome to the blogosphere.
We’re already excited about some of the eco-relevant finds Designist Dream has dug up, and will be sure to report on some of them [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Dec 30th, 2007
A long time ago, when we were more idealistic, we spent an afternoon at Salon Mazal. Feeling like an anthropologist, we studied the people who were hanging out there: self-named anarchists, squatters, Arab rappers, earth-lovers…you-name-it.
(You can read the story here).
Anyway, it turns out that Tel Avivian anarchists are not so scary after all. Some of [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Dec 29th, 2007
We saw all the signs: the ararchist gatherings at Salon Mazal and the little old ladies picking through the Friday-afternoon veggies at the Carmel Market. Social activists in Israel have joined the international movement in protest of our consumer culture. They are dumpster-divers, and living off of just about everything and anything that you might [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Dec 25th, 2007
While the Christians are busy unwrapping their presents around the world, the LA-based clothing company American Apparel, decided to launch a sale just for the Jews. Lucky for the Jews, there is an American Apparel outlet in Israel on King George Street in Tel Aviv; and double lucky, the company carries an organic clothing line.
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