Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman is an award-winning journalist, innovation strategist, and founder of Green Prophet, one of the Middle East’s pioneering sustainability platforms. She has ranked in the Top 10 of Verizon innovation competitions, participated in NASA-linked challenges, and spoken worldwide on climate, food security, and future resilience. With an IoT technology patent, features in Canada’s National Post, and leadership inside teams building next-generation agricultural and planetary systems — including Mars-farming concepts — Karin operates at the intersection of storytelling, science, and systems change. She doesn’t report on the future – she helps design it. Reach out directly to [email protected]

New Ferrari Luce EV Interior – Can the New Electric Ferrari Bring Back Handmade Luxury?

Now Ferrari has unveiled a new class of EV and luxury car, the Ferrari Luce, and it's not meant to replace existing combustion engine cars in the line. But rather create a new class for collectors. At about $650,000 USD this isn't an every day family car, although your family could fit inside its roomy interior.

Sports equipment is entering the bioplastics era

Breaking into the sports industry with a product that’s both high-performance and fully circular is a proud moment for us at Balena. This frisbee, made from our bacteria-fermented bioplastic, is proof that sustainable materials can go beyond concepts and prototypes, they can play, perform, and inspire” — David Roubach, Founder & CEO, Balena

Collecting kinetic energy from roads; REPS turns traffic into a power plant

REPS announced a $23.6M equity financing round to scale its Road Energy Production System, a patented “road power plant”...

Park Slope food coop boycotts “Gay Tahini” already boycotted by Muslims in Israel

The tragedy is that this kind of activism rarely builds peace. It builds tribes instead of humanity. It rewards outrage over dialogue. Once an enlightenment group starts deciding which nationalities are acceptable to boycott publicly, history suggests the line rarely stops where activists think it will.

A wearable untrasound for high-risk pregnancies

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a soft, wearable ultrasound patch that can continuously monitor a fetus for hours at a time — and it can do so consistently even as the fetus and umbilical cord constantly move during pregnancy. 

Baby fruit pouches ejecting microplastics into every serving

For generations, feeding a baby meant pureeing what you had at dinner, or if you were in a pinch...
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I Went Looking for Jerusalem. I Found Oskar Schindler

  I did not go looking for Oskar Schindler. But he found me. One day, while wandering through an old...

Japan’s packaging turns black and white from Iran oil shortage

Japan is a country that builds 100-year companies; while 50 years ago Made In Japan implied an inferior mass-manufactured...

Hydrophilis rebreather, an interview with Oliver Isler

A retired Swiss biology teacher has built one of the most unusual diving devices ever featured on Green Prophet:...

Econcrete makes built coastlines richer in marine life with new investment

    A decade ago, we met Shimrit Perkol-Finkel in a startup incubator in Tel Aviv. She was one of those...

Desalination experts debunk Aqua Solaire, the floating desalination barge

AI makes it easy to dream, develop, and create images of what could be world-changing ideas, until the reality sets in. A new project making the rounds is Aqua Solaire, an allged French concept for a solar-powered desalination vessel designed to bring drinking water to coastal communities facing drought, storms, and infrastructure failures.

Exploring Bangkok by electric bike with teenagers

With two teenagers in tow and four nights to spare, we decided to give Thailand’s capital the attention it deserved. My son had one request: he wanted to rent electric bikes. A friend of his had explored Japan this way, and he was convinced Bangkok would be just as exciting.