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Green Your Life Like Ben Franklin

How's that journal coming along? Not always easy to keep to, eh? Try taking a page out of one of America's founding father's: Benjamin Franklin. In...

Nurit – Israel's First "Eco-Friendly" Town

(Map of Nurit, from Google Earth) It's one thing to adopt environmentally conscious behavior, such as recycling, taking public transportation, and saving water or electricity....

Urban Design: The Traffic Circle as a Space for Art

According to surveys, Petach Tikva is the number one destination for young couples purchasing apartments, with a population that is growing at an annual...

Refill Your Kettle

After your kettle has boiled and you've emptied it, before it cools down, add some water for next time. While the kettle is still...

Will Naomi Tsur, Jerusalem Mayor Barkat’s Top Environmentalist, Green Jerusalem?

No. 3 on Mayor-elect Nir Barkat's winning list, Naomi Tsur is going to be spearheading any changes the city makes to beautify the city...

How to Use the Winter to Green Your Fridge!

Use the winter cold to your advantage! We all know by now that thermal mass in the fridge is a good idea... so we have...

Green Dating Tip

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Trouble in Paradise: Dubai's Beaches Severely Polluted

With its lavish six-star hotels and glitterati reputation, Dubai has quickly risen to fame as a tourist paradise. But now that fame might be...

How to Make the Most of the Rain

I love the rain. It cleanses the city. Everything looks and smells clean and fresh. My biggest problem, though, with the rain is that...

Best Way to Defrost Food

The best way to defrost food is in the fridge. It not only keeps the fridge cool, meaning the fridge itself will use...

Winter Gas Savings

Cold is on its way in, as tends to happen this time of year, and along with it different driving conditions. Rain and snow...

Israeli Eco-Conscious Town Nurit is in the Works in Gilboa

Far be it for this Green Prophet to disavow her love of the city of Tel Aviv.  Tel Aviv has almost everything - the...

Green Your Repentance

The Jewish Day of Repentance, Yom Kippur, is a day of introspection and self-evaluation. While doing so make sure not to sin in the...

Clean Up After Fido

It has been estimated that a single gram of dog waste can contain 23 million fecal coliform bacteria, which are known to...

Honey

It is customary on the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana, this past Tuesday and Wednesday) to have apples with honey to bring a sweet...

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The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

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Farm To Table Israel is transforming the traditional dining experience into a hands-on journey.

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In Islamic tradition, there is a point where creation ends — a boundary that marks the limit of what any created being can reach. That boundary is called Sidrat al-Muntahā, often translated as “the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.”

The Air Tea Kettle creates a new way to meet plants and herbalism

Air Tea is a new technology. Instead of drinking tea, you inhale herbal vapor through warm air extraction. There is no water and no combustion. The warm air releases essential oils that are often lost in hot water and digestion.

Why Health Systems Are Reaching a Turning Point

Health emerges from a continuous energy and material flow from water through food to human physiology. Technical energy systems support this cycle through water treatment, agriculture, and infrastructure.

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