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Dancing Camel Brewery supports the Sea

They offer a great local product that serves as a wonderful alternative to imported, carbon-footprint heavy beers (they recently sold their beers at Tel Aviv's slow food farmer's market).  And to top it all off, their brewery in southern Tel Aviv has been the home of some great parties.

The History of Thanksgiving and How to Green Yours!

One of the wonderful customs that the American settlers here in the Middle East has brought over from the old country is Thanksgiving. Here...

Making the Season Last: Tomato Confit Recipe

Tomatoes are still, mercifully, quite readily available. Though we hate to think about it, this won't always be the case. In just a few...

Dr. Bronner’s Soap is Sustainable Development in Israel/Palestine

In my book, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps definitely gets an A+ for sustainable development and corporate social responsibility!

Bactochem Barcodes Your Organic Beef With DNA Databank

How do you really know that the beef you bought is organic, kosher, halal, or raised with loving kindness? The Israeli company Bactochem has...

Nagaya Organic Gifts: Give the Gift of Sustainability

What could be a more thoughtful gift than a gift that's organic?  Giving someone an organic gift shows not only that you care about...

The Jaffa Orange Gets The Carbon Label

With America's and the world's financial markets going belly up, it will be interesting to see what happens to the carbon market. Smart CEOs...

How to Make Home-Made PESTO!

Ever since returning from Italy, Ilana and I have fallen in love with Pesto! Pesto has many wonderful heath benefits. Basil, the main ingredient,...

Vegetarian-Friendly Protein: Quinoa Salad Dinner Recipe

Quinoa isn't just for Passover anymore. Revered by the Incas as sacred, quinoa looks like a grain but is actually a plant related to...

What to Do With All That Whey – Make Biscuits!

As you may recall, we recently delved into the wonderful world of cheese-making. And when we did, we told you to save up all...

How to Make Your Own Ricotta

Ricotta is a summer cheese. And as the weather warms up, Jewish people start to think about the Hebrew holiday of Shavuot  - the...

Hearty Roots Puts the Community in CSAs

It's always exciting to get farm-fresh organic produce delivered to your door through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme, which have proliferated wildly around...

Q. Will Our Drinking Water Suddenly Stop? A. No

A friend of mine recently asked me with great concern about the water supply from his tap  - is it going to disappear tomorrow?...

Ordering Cows by the Whole or Half Steer in New York

Back in January, I took a friend to the open food market in the Hatikva neighborhood of Tel Aviv, a run-down area near the...

Lebanon Celebrates Three Years of an Organic Farming Project

Last Friday, World Vision and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) celebrated the achievements of a three year project that has helped...

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Peoria Charter Services: The Smart Way to Travel in Comfort and Style

Traveling in a group can often become stressful when transportation is not planned properly. Whether it is a corporate outing, school trip, wedding event, sports tournament, or family vacation, choosing reliable transportation makes a huge difference. This is where Peoria charter services become the ideal solution for smooth and comfortable travel.

Elkhorn kernals planted to restore reef diversity

The project centers on “Flonduran” corals, which are offspring of Florida elkhorn corals bred with elkhorn corals from Honduras. These new corals are being evaluated alongside Florida elkhorn corals of the same age that are outplanted side by side in natural reef habitats to assess whether the new genetic diversity can enhance coral resilience and reduce coral bleaching during Florida’s warm summers.

Signs of Shavuot: Grief, Love and Choosing Life

Shavuot is a holiday heavy with symbolism. While it marks the end of the counting of the omer, it also functions as a miniature jubilee. The fiftieth day like a tiny echo of the fifty year cycle. And in each of the seventh years during that cycle, acts of rest and liberation are performed, especially in the fiftieth year.

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Peoria Charter Services: The Smart Way to Travel in Comfort and Style

Traveling in a group can often become stressful when transportation is not planned properly. Whether it is a corporate outing, school trip, wedding event, sports tournament, or family vacation, choosing reliable transportation makes a huge difference. This is where Peoria charter services become the ideal solution for smooth and comfortable travel.

Elkhorn kernals planted to restore reef diversity

The project centers on “Flonduran” corals, which are offspring of Florida elkhorn corals bred with elkhorn corals from Honduras. These new corals are being evaluated alongside Florida elkhorn corals of the same age that are outplanted side by side in natural reef habitats to assess whether the new genetic diversity can enhance coral resilience and reduce coral bleaching during Florida’s warm summers.

Signs of Shavuot: Grief, Love and Choosing Life

Shavuot is a holiday heavy with symbolism. While it marks the end of the counting of the omer, it also functions as a miniature jubilee. The fiftieth day like a tiny echo of the fifty year cycle. And in each of the seventh years during that cycle, acts of rest and liberation are performed, especially in the fiftieth year.

The turbid waste of McDonald’s

Finally, the most damning thing about McDonald's is in how incredibly boring it is even compares to their competitors. While McDonald's is ubiquitous, that ubiquity only makes their mediocrity all the more McShitty.

Baby fruit pouches ejecting microplastics into every serving

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