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Pollution in a Promised Land: Alon Tal on Israel and the Environment

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Eco-Activist Yeshiva in Jerusalem Brings the Torah Down to Earth

The links between religion and environmental concern/activism are no news to Green Prophet.  We've covered them in our Eco Rabbi series, discussion of the...

"Highway 6" Construction Firm Makes Big Bid on Solel's Solar Energy Tech

Solar tech innovators in Israel seem to be always looking West for investment dollars, but in a surprising move, Israel's Housing & Construction company...

Hiria Garbage Mountain Gets Green Lighting From Clean Energy

Hiria, Israel's hard-to-miss garbage mountain located off the road that connects Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, has been trying to fix its trashy image and...

Louise Looks At Eco-Travel With "The Guardian Green Travel Guide"

Worried about your carbon footprint? Not sure where to turn for accurate information? This book certainly delivers what it says on the...

Lebanon Running Out of Fish

(Lebanese fishermen in southern Tyre clean their catch. Photo from AFP.) Southern Lebanese fishermen say their catch has slumped from 88 pounds a day in...

Shop for Social and Environmental Meaning in the Old City of Acco

This coming Tuesday, July 7th a new store will be opening up in the Old City of Acco in northern Israel.  A store that...

Untreated Wastewater Poses Huge Threat to West Bank Palestinians

A report published Sunday by the Israeli human rights group B’tselem, titled, “Foul Play: Neglect of Wastweater Treatment in the West Bank” found untreated...

Benvenisti Mourns the Forgotten Rural Heritage of Israel in "Sacred Landscape"

For readers who have driven or hiked past unmarked, run-down old stone buildings in Israel, former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meron Benvenisti’s Sacred Landscape (University...

Hollywoood Stars Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts Plant Pistachio Tree in Galilee with JNF (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVZeLgs2aTs In Israel for the first time last week, Hollywood stars Liev Schrieber and Naomi Watts (and their two cute kids) planted a pistachio tree...

Israel's IAI Joins Europe to Make "Clean Skies" and Greener and Quieter Aircraft

Carbon offsetting your flight is one way to help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases entering the air. But experts in the transportation industry...

Scientist, Environmentalist and Eco-Prophet James Lovelock Issues A Final Warning in 'The Vanishing Face of Gaia'

“We became the Earth’s infection a long and uncertain time ago": James Lovelock is perhaps the world’s best-known independent scientist; he has published a...

FoEME Helps Israel, Jordan Cut Down Flies

Although Israel and Jordan have not come to a joint stance on the Red-Dead Canal, Haaretz's tenacious environmental reporter Zafrir Rinat reported Sunday that...

New Tel Aviv Bar The Rogatka Takes Veganism To The Extreme

If the combination of the words "vegan" and "bar" doesn't make sense to you, you're not alone.  Because beer is made of hops, malt, and...

Environmental Lecture Series at Beer Sheva's Ashan Hazman

If you're in the South today and haven't yet seen An Inconvenient Truth, the Watermelon series of six "Green and Red" lectures at Beer...

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