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Vegawarian Dinner

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Support Bedouin treeplanting and Green education with a Tel Aviv shakedown!

Our resourceful friends at the Bedouin NGO Bustan are refusing to allow the current tension in the South of Israel affect them. Despite having to...

What To Do on Tu B’Shvat in Israel

Tu B'Shvat is the Jewish holiday marking the beginning of a new year for trees, and is usually celebrated by planting trees and exchanging...

Documenting the Demise of America's Largest Community Garden

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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

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Win a Jewish "Green Beanie" and Notoriety in the News

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Eco-Rabbi: Parshat Vayechi – What’s in a Blessing?

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Is Gianni Versace’s Refrigerated Beach One Excess Too Far in Dubai?

For those of you who hate scorching your feet on hot beach sand, the developers of one of Dubai's latest luxury hotels has the...

EcoMum: Bathing Baby and Water Conservation

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Green Events at the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University this Week

If being more environmentally friendly is one of your New Year's resolutions, you might consider going to one of the great "green" events hosted...

Eco-Village Kramim: A Green Ray of Light in the Negev

With so much negativity in the southern part of the country and the Negev right now, it is refreshing to learn about positive things...

Recycling and Deifying Donkey Dung in Israel

The Christmas season in Europe is often silly season for the world's media outlets, when they outdo each other to find the strangest, weirdest...

This Greenhouse grows kids into flowers

Inspired by the Green Kindergarten initiative made by the Israeli government, I dug up this story I'd written earlier in the year on a...

Israeli Tots At 82 Kindergartens To Learn Green ABC's

In a special ceremony, held in Bar-Ilan University earlier this month, some 48 green kindergartens located in the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, central and southern...

Dianne Onstad's Whole Foods Companion, A Charming and Chock-Full Book

With winter upon us, now is the perfect time to get cozy with a pile of books. The latest in our eco-reads book review...

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