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Small Shops Add Soul

Character vs. flash: An old building in the city center, and a shiny, new Aroma. What gives a city its particular character? Is it...

Green Trash From Space – Solar-powered BigBelly Trash Compactor in Jerusalem

Jack discovers a solar-powered trash compactor in Jerusalem. I stepped off the bus this evening and standing on the sidewalk before me was this great...

Tel Aviv Plans Expanded Tayelet – and Shrunken Beach

  Central Tel Aviv's beach and tayelet. Democracy is a messy system. Churchill was probably right when he said that democracy was the worst...

When The Sea Turns Into Our Toilet

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=544518686784404916&hl=enA short public service announcement from our friends over at Zalul.Last year we wrote a story on Israel's sewage problem "The Sludge Report" and...

Cheesy Green Police Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASd-doKOlk&rel=1We have never seen these "green police" in action, but we'd like to believe that they exist, if only in our dreams. This video...

Can Israel Bag the Bag?

The hot environmental topic this season, seems to be about banning the bag - the plastic bag that is.Zalul 's blog Clear has reported...

The Green Maps of Jerusalem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Xz2fLlNpo&rel=1 Some people call for Israel to be wiped off the map. We say, put us down on a Green Map. That's just what a...

Lights Out for Tel Aviv During Earth Hour 2008

Tel Aviv is the first Israeli city, and the only city in the Middle East to join Earth Hour, a new worldwide campaign to...

Building Up With Adobe, Straw and Sustainable Building in Israel

Unlike Americans and Canadians, Israelis are none too quick to start building with strawbale and adobe. I did meet a couple pioneers over the...

Rawabi offers suburban affordable housing Palestinians

A few weeks ago, we were driving our "tourist" mom from Canada around the country, when we accidentally took the wrong cut-off and found...

Knafo Klimor Architects Design True "Green House" Living For China

Apartments for China, outfitted with individual greenhouses. We'd live in one of these eco-abodes. Outdoor vegetable gardens are nice, but as it turns out,...

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