Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jul 16th, 2008
Due to not having a yard and feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt every time I throw away my food scraps in a conventional garbage, I spent my first few months in Tel Aviv trying to figure out some plausible composting options in the city. This was harder than expected because so many Israelis have [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jul 11th, 2008
Photo by Dan Keinan, Haaretz.
A modernist skyscraper was built with no connection to the existing urban context, and plans for a row of similar towers threatened to destroy the character of the historical city center. This so outraged the residents of the area that they managed to bring about a complete ban on skyscraper construction [...]
Posted in Food & Health on Jul 9th, 2008
Tel Aviv, for those who haven’t had the pleasure of visiting the city, is a city of coffee drinkers and cafes. (Some would say bums and people who don’t work in the middle of the day… but we say coffee drinkers and cafes.) It is not unusual to step out in the middle [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Jul 7th, 2008
At 70 hectares big, the Hiria garbage dump is pretty hard to miss. It’s literally a mountain of garbage.
Located off of the road connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Hiria is a cautionary tale of consumerism, excess waste, and what happens when you don’t reduce, reuse and recycle. An ecological disaster since 1952 [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jul 1st, 2008
Environmental and social change don’t always go together in green organizations, but the truth is that you can’t really make green changes without effecting society. Alternatively, some socio-economic groups just don’t have the resources to make costly (yet positive) environmental changes. As Jeff recently pointed out in his reaction to Tel Aviv’s farmers [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jun 23rd, 2008
Baladi, a word that Israelis adopted from Arabic, means “national” or “of the country”. It is also the name that French-born Israeli designer, Brigitte Cartier, decided to give her design studio. Her Baladi Company for Ecological Progress takes our national garbage and transforms it into beautiful designs that we can all be proud [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Jun 19th, 2008
Notice anything strange about this scene?
Said Leemor Chandally, who sent us these photos, “I was passing by Rabin Square, when I noticed this situation and had to laugh. A bunch of people were waiting for a bus, but nobody was waiting inside the bus stop, which was obviously brand new. Instead, everyone was crouching behind [...]
Posted in Food & Health on Jun 19th, 2008
I was so anxious on Monday as I awaited word of delivery of my very first Israeli community supported agriculture (CSA) delivery to its drop spot in Tel Aviv. I was nervous, not because I thought the vegetables wouldn’t be good or because I was unsure if I was getting a good deal (the [...]
Posted in Lifestyle & Culture on Jun 19th, 2008
According to that old expression, beggars can’t be choosers. But Israeli designer Amit Brilliant proves that saying wrong with her line of recycled wallets, bags, notebook covers, and hats - BEGGARS.
She chooses not to dump what would normally end up in the trash and turn it into something useful and aesthetic instead.
In other [...]
Posted in Fashion & Design on Jun 16th, 2008
Last week we wrote about an environmentally conscious window display in Tel Aviv designed by Shulayim Studio, but the store that the window belonged to - Cotton - is news worthy as well.
Cotton started making a limited line of clothes in 1992 with the goal of creating pieces that are unique, comfortable, woman-friendly, environmentally-friendly, and [...]
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