Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
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 [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Sep 11th, 2008
This prophet just made the flight from Tel Aviv to his childhood home of New Jersey. After a year of observing Israel and it’s eco-consciousness (and at times lack thereof), I was eager to see how the Garden State measured up to its nick name. I couldn’t help but compare my observations in [...]
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. [...]
Posted in Architecture & Urban on Sep 2nd, 2008
Sometimes it is necessary to confront our decision-makers with what has been called “the threat of a good example” - to bring them face to face with evidence that, despite their insistence to the contrary, it is possible to do things differently.
That, in a nutshell, was the idea behind an event held last week at [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Sep 2nd, 2008
This Prophet recently got the chance to travel to New York City, and was a little bit apprehensive about the green-ness factor of the Big Apple. For a city so notorious for its chic blacks and greys, we figured that a fairly untrendy color like green wouldn’t be too popular. We were wrong. Apparently green [...]
Posted in Travel & Nature on Aug 25th, 2008
As part of its overall activities to improve service for tourists visiting the city this summer, the Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Jaffa has introduced Segway mobile information points onto the city streets.
The unique, colorful Segways can be found on the streets of Tel Aviv seven days a week from 13:00 – 19:00, particularly in areas [...]
Posted in Green Living Tips on Aug 24th, 2008
For the most part it’s usually better to buy local. This cuts out the emissions created as a result of shipping, getting the product to your door.
This is an important question: Is it better to buy biodegradable garbage bags that are manufactured in China? Or go with the one’s made a block away, that aren’t [...]
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