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VIDEO: Israelis Pedal Power Earth Day Concert At Rabin Square

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ylk1zXMSTs We couldn't miss this one for the world: last night about 20 professional cyclists put the pedal to the metal and powered the Balkan...

Falafel oil fuels Tel Aviv Earth Hour concert

Okay, so officially... Earth Hour was a few weeks ago and despite the fact that many other Middle Eastern cities participated, Israel was caught...

James Laps Up Simon Barnes's Book 'How to Be Wild'

"The more we leave the non-human world behind, the less human we become: and the more fearful we become. It is not the thrilling...

Israel Celebrates "Earth Day" Today Only Tomorrow, With Lights Out, Beach Cleaning, Concerts and Green Awards

(Photographer Yuval Chen spent almost two years snapping shots of hedgehogs in Tel Aviv's urban landscape. For more see ISRAELITY). Celebrated since 1970, Israel is...

Shiri "Solarizes" Israeli Galilee Farmers With Greenway Solar Products

What's a 37 year old single mom, who lives in a three room mobile home in Israel's Galilee doing to support herself? Why she's...

Doomsday 90s Film On Global Warming Becomes Stark Reality

Writing the Green Prophet story on ecomigration got me thinking about a cheesy made for TV movie The Fire Next Time made 15 years...

Architect Gil Peled Strives for a 'Carbon-Free House' in Stephen and Rebekah Hren's Book

Carbon emissions from the building environment are globally one of the major contributors to climate change. On average up to 50% of all carbon...

Exploring Human Apathy In The Film 'The Age Of Stupid'

‘The Age of Stupid’ is an ambitious new Independent British green documentary. As a fellow filmmaker and activist, I salute director Franny Armstrong and her...

Jews Celebrate "Solar Seder" in the Arava Desert at Kibbutz Lotan

Just a few hours after Jews of all stripes gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to celebrate "Birkat haChama" - the blessing of...

Jordan's Environment Society A Middle East Model for Environmental Protection

Countries in the Middle East should take notice that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is making great efforts to improve Jordan's environment as well...

Iran's New Year "Nowruz" An Ecological Bridge To Connect The Middle East?

Eco-Jews are busy now celebrating Passover, while Christians in the Holy Land and the world over ready themselves for Easter. Iranians, we learn had...

Rabbi Sinclair Reviews "Nature's Due" And Its Complicated Biology

I am really not the right person to be reviewing "Nature's Due" by Professor Brian Goodwin from Shumacher College in the UK. It is...

Yoko Ono Greens the Passover Atmosphere at the Ecosphere Festival in Israel

With Passover coming up so soon many of us are preparing in a variety of ways, whether it be purging our homes of every...

Switzerland’s 2000 Watt Society And Swiss Energy-Saving Practices Introduced To Israel

Who would think that Switzerland and Israel have anything in common? Switzerland brings to mind lush mountains, flowing streams and delicious chocolate. Israel has...

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a Review

Why did I reread passages of this book over and over, why did scenes haunt me for weeks? The struggle for survival is boiled down, elemental: two humans, trying to find enough food for surviving another day, trying to avoid becoming food for the human beasts.

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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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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.

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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.

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For generations, feeding a baby meant pureeing what you...

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