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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...

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...

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

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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

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