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Support Bedouin treeplanting and Green education with a Tel Aviv shakedown!

Our resourceful friends at the Bedouin NGO Bustan are refusing to allow the current tension in the South of Israel affect them. Despite having to...

Sustainable Architecture Conference in Libya is Looking for Participants

Here at Green Prophet we've covered a variety of conferences, with the most recent being a seminar in Jerusalem about architecture (coming up on...

Documenting the Demise of America's Largest Community Garden

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Tel Aviv “City Rats” Give New Ideas to Urban Planners

"Rat tracks" made by rats in two city plans: Manhattan-style (left) and New Orleans or Jerusalem-style (right). In both plans rats cover the same...

Upcoming Green Design Conference: The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture

During these tough times in the south of Israel and Gaza, it's heartening to discover that some events are continuing, and that the determination...

Architect Elias Messinas Brings Green Architecture to Israel

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Is Gianni Versace’s Refrigerated Beach One Excess Too Far in Dubai?

For those of you who hate scorching your feet on hot beach sand, the developers of one of Dubai's latest luxury hotels has the...

Israel's First Municipal Reuse Center Sounds Like The Salvation Army

Collecting everything but the kitchen sink, and well, maybe even that, Israel gets its first municipal center for "recycling and rational resource use," announces...

Audit Your Energy and Water Usage

One of the best ways to save is by auditing your consumption. Take next month's bill and set your energy/water usage as your benchmark As the...

Print With less Ink – Ecofont

How many times have you printed out a final draft and found out that it wasn't as final as you had thought? I always...

Green Prophet Interviewed in Jerusalemite

We've hit the one-year anniversary of Green Prophet, and what a year it's been! And just in time for the event, Green Prophet's Karin...

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...

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Barnacle glue could fix coral reefs, inspire new advances in building and medicine

Aalto University researchers create a protein-based adhesive inspired by barnacles and mussels that works underwater and could aid coral reef restoration.

Jaakko Torvinen finds that the next green building revolution is misfit trees

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HelloFresh’s pride prepping ad raises a bigger question: we are we still outsourcing dinner?

The backlash against HelloFresh's Pride Month marketing campaign has sparked a wider conversation about food, labor, sustainability, and whether consumers should reconnect with local farmers, butchers, and home gardens instead of relying on subscription meal kits.

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Zentera responds to questions about ZQ wool, animal welfare, regenerative farming, ethical fashion and the fallout from PETA's New Zealand investigation.

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Barnacle glue could fix coral reefs, inspire new advances in building and medicine

Aalto University researchers create a protein-based adhesive inspired by barnacles and mussels that works underwater and could aid coral reef restoration.

Jaakko Torvinen finds that the next green building revolution is misfit trees

Crooked, forked and curved trees are often treated as second-class timber. They are considered less valuable, and not suitable for load bearing walls or support systems in building. If a tree trunk is not straight enough to become a saw log, it is frequently diverted into pulp production or burned for energy. Now, new research from Aalto University could help change that.

Black fathers live longer than non-fathers, new study

Researchers found that fatherhood was associated with lower rates of early death among Black men, while early fatherhood was linked to poorer long-term health outcomes.

Dan Zaslavsky’s energy tower dream is rising again in Iran and China

The Energy Tower idea never made the leap from drawings and engineering studies to full-scale construction. But nearly two decades after most people stopped talking about it, the concept is quietly evolving in two unexpected places: China and Iran. The concept let dreamers dream and doers do - figuring out more pleasing designs and engineering.

A visit to Amirim, Israel’s first all-vegetarian village in the Galilee

Just 15 kilometers from Tzfat there is a moshav that was founded in the late 50s that was ideologically influenced by organic, vegetarian and vegan principles. My hostess at Ohn-Bar, the tzimmer where I stayed, explained that the people of Amirim were among the pioneers of Israel’s strong vegetarian movement.
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