Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Travel & Nature on Aug 20th, 2008
As the Green Prophet archives will tell you, Israel is no stranger to environmentally friendly tourism. Not only is there a variety of ecologically minded guesthouses all of the country (including a vegetarian paradise in the Galilee), but the Israeli Ministry of Tourism has announced that it is going green. Part of this initiative has [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 13th, 2008
MK Dr. Dov Khenin announces his candidacy for the office of Mayor of Tel Aviv on Monday, flanked by members of the A City for All movement in Tel Aviv’s Gan Meir. (Photo by Yoav Lerman).
What would happen if a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist were to take charge of a polluted and traffic-clogged city like Tel Aviv? [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Aug 12th, 2008
It’s not every day that you can party with a group of farmers in the middle of a city. Even rarer, it’s not every day that you can party with urban Israeli farmers on the rooftop of a historic building in the center of Tel Aviv and learn about some green goodness to boot.
Which is [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 12th, 2008
Us Green Prophets believe that green education should start from a young age, and have already addressed ways that little ones can be eco conscious. Sometimes it’s recycling competitions at schools, other times it’s reading environmentally conscious children’s books, and sometimes it’s about what these little ones are wearing.
Eco-Mum has already sung the praises of [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Aug 6th, 2008
We are undeniably in the thick of beach season. Deeply tanned French tourists with gold colored sandals and other stylish accessories line the beaches, the smell of sunscreen is in the air, and the plywood percussion of matkot (paddle ball) is the reigning summer symphony.
Unfortunately, all of this beachy goodness comes with a whole lot [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Aug 6th, 2008
I finished reading Food Not Lawns on my roof, just after I checked my new vermi-compost bin. The roof compost represents my adaptation to life in the modern world whereby I try and lead a more sustainable lifestyle within my means and ability. I was hoping to read Flores’ book and gain tips on how [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Aug 3rd, 2008
Junction: an act of joining; the state of being joined.
Junktion: Tel Aviv design studio founded in 2008. Lovers and joiners of what the city dwellers clasify as junk.
Junktion, one of Tel Aviv’s newest and most fabulous reuse design studios, tries “to create a meeting point with what the city has already classified as junk.” In [...]
Posted in Science & Technology on Jul 24th, 2008
Israel’s fastest-growing supermarket chain is the upscale Tiv Taam, where customers can browse shelves of international beers, pick through extensive cheese selections and even purchase pancetta to include in their gourmet dishes at home. At Hinnawi, a Yafo-based butcher with a branch inside the shopping mall in Ramat Aviv, customers can choose between 17 kinds [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jul 24th, 2008
The word “organic” can be applied to many things in our modern day lives. Most commonly, it applies to food that has been grown organically (meaning without pesticides). But as a quick search in Webster’s dictionary showed us, the term organic means “of, relating to, or derived from living organisms.”
And Tel Aviv’s “Don’t Panic It’s [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jul 17th, 2008
Last month we wrote about City Tree, a green oasis in a historical building in central Tel Aviv. This urban environmental group focuses on restoring their 1920s apartment with ecological renovation methods (such as recycled paper construction and milk based paints), teaching urbanites how to compost, and cooperating with the Good Energy Initiative in [...]
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