Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Cars & Transportation on Nov 20th, 2008
Air pollution from transportation is costing Arab countries $5 billion in damages, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Environment and Water recently announced. The cost is calculated based on the number of deaths, medical care for health problems and chronic diseases that are attributed to air pollution.
The minister, Dr. Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, added [...]
Posted in Business & Politics on Nov 17th, 2008
In American colleges, being part of “Greek” culture means that you’re part of a fraternity or sorority (and, by extension, that you usually engage in lots of drinking and debauchery). In Israel, this has been lost in translation. Like, really lost.
As of Friday, November 28 being part of “Greek” culture in Israel will mean participating [...]
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 Cars & Transportation on Oct 29th, 2008
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals’ Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Oct 19th, 2008
Far be it for this Green Prophet to disavow her love of the city of Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv has almost everything - the beach, museums, great food, interesting architecture, a happening nightlife… But also, of course, traffic congestion, waste, pollution, an overdose of concrete, and the improper collection of rainwater, to name a few. [...]
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 Oct 10th, 2008
Although there are Israelis who hop between Eilat and Tel Aviv on a plane rather than brave the four-and-a-half hour Egged bus ride, for the most part Israel’s postage stamp size makes the country easy to tackle without taking to the skies.
Not so for the USA.
I decided last week that I will visit my alma [...]
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 [...]
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