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Pass it on

Educating about the environment is considered a very powerful way of carbon offsetting. By inspiring others to change their habits not only are you...

Let ‘em Hang

Let your towel hang dry in between uses so that you can reuse your towel. After your shower you should be clean. You are...

Take Less Onto Your Plate

Remember, you can always take more, but most people won’t appreciate it if you put your unfinished food back into the pot. This way...

Reuse Your Plastic Shopping Bags

Israel is known for it’s plastic shopping bags. While it’s better to bring your own reusable sturdy shopping bags when you go shopping, sometimes...

Get a Shabbos-Clock for Your Heater

Religious Jews will not turn on or off electricity on the Sabbath. Their solution? A timer electrical outlet, a shabbas-clock. Set the times you...

Ride a bike, Walk, Jog, or Run

 If you aren’t doing this already you’re probably saying: Are you out of your mind?! I can’t do that! Or perhaps: Yeah, I know I...

Filter Your Water

Much of the bottled water on the market is actually not so natural. As a rule, bottled water is no safer or healthier than...

Buying in Bulk

Try to buy in bulk  from warehouse stores or the shuk. Often these items come in big jars which you can use. But even if...

Children… Go Play by the Cesspit

I can go on “home-binges” where I will coop myself up inside for days at a time. There can be the productive kind where I’m...

Aerate Your Water

Installing Low-Flow showerheads and faucet aerators is probably the single most effective water conservation action you can do for your...

Supersol Just Got Greener

Living in Jerusalem's city center is an occasionally harrowing, occasionally exhilirating experience. Towards the middle of the spectrum (with "harrowing" being defined, roughly,...

Keep Cool in Style

Did you know that when you drive at a speed that is over 40 mph using the air conditioner uses less fuel than having...

Florentine Fights Back

(In Hebrew) Channel One's Yoman reports on the struggle by residents of Florentine, a neighborhood in south Tel Aviv, against the city's building plans in...

Newspaper un-Litter

Most neighborhoods have recycle bins for paper. However there still are many that do not. If you are unlucky enough to live in one...

Jerusalemites say ‘no’ to nylon

Jerusalem art students tried their luck recently at weaning Israelis off their addiction to plastic bags at the city’s Machane Yehuda market.Green Prophet recently...

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