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Faith & the Environment: Multi-faith Perspectives

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Don't Panic, It's Organic… Music: Non-Electronic Concert in Tel Aviv

The word "organic" can be applied to many things in our modern day lives.  Most commonly, it applies to food that has been grown...

Eco-Rabbi: Parshat Matot – Rights! Individual vs. Community

You're eating a bag of chips while walking down the street. As you finish you look around to find a trash can but nothing...

Sustainability Writer Karen Chernick

While Green Prophet is unified in purpose, our Prophets are an eclectic bunch with distinctly individual perspectives. In this series we'll be featuring...

Erez Mulay’s Wastepaper Baskets From Wasted Paper

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Eco-Rabbi: Parshat Pinchas – Sacrifice

Two brothers wanted to thank God for what he had given them, but God only accepted the sacrifice of one of them. Abel sent...

"The Compost Guy" on a Composter’s Delight and Dilemma in Tel Aviv

Due to not having a yard and feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt every time I throw away my food scraps in a conventional...

Sizzle, A Global Warming Comedy, Is Not So Hot

My partner and I watched this movie with increasing incredulity and frustration. She is a former science journalist, and she won't mind me telling...

One World, Many Beads: A Journey in Bedouin Jewelry

In The Beginning There came a moment when I realised that I had to make a business with the jewellery that I kept buying for...

'Animate Earth' by Stephan Harding, a Review

"The crisis is at root one of perception; we no longer see the cosmos as alive, nor do we any longer recognise that we...

An ecomom on playing indoor games

So what can we do with the kids indoors that does not involve TV and video games?

Inbal Dayagi Designs a Boom Box With Eco Soul

For whatever reason, the Ipod and its classic white earphones have become a symbol of music and street cool. People use them on the...

Eco-Rabbi: Parshat Chukat – Hitting The Land

Last week, God took care of the waste in the camp. This week Moses hits the rock. The Israelites had been traveling in the...

'Field Notes from a Catastrophe' by Elizabeth Kolbert, a Review

This is the first book I’ve read in a long time that I have felt so conflicted about. I bought it after having seen it...

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Mantle8 takes its natural hydrogen hunt from the Pyrenees to Dubai

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