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The City Garden

Every morning I feel oneness with nature and my creator when I go to my green city garden just outside my front door in...

Making the (Urban) Jungle Grow: Israeli Designer Kobi Nakav Proposes a New Square Hanging Plant

For some reason my mother always hated hanging plants. And clutter. And collecting things. And although I admire her from here to the moon...

Some ins and outs on cloth diapers for your eco-baby

Eco-Mom Sophie started the debate on cloth diapers (or nappies as she calls them - it must be a UK thing). She continues her...

Eco Rabbi: Stones and Health

It once happened that a farmer was removing stones from his field and putting them onto a public thoroughfare. There was a certain pious...

Footprints in the Snow

 One of my fondest memories of my childhood is going out to explore the new world the day after a big snow. I can...

Jerusalemites say ‘no’ to nylon

Jerusalem art students tried their luck recently at weaning Israelis off their addiction to plastic bags at the city’s Machane Yehuda market.Green Prophet recently...

Shmita year, an introduction from Israel

Our readers have also been asking about organic gardening during the shmita (or Sabbatical) year in the land of Israel. Are there any loopholes...

“Survivor”: An Ecological Hazard?

It's hardly surprising that "Survivor" is a hit: who doesn't come home from work and immediately hunger to watch white trash in bikini tops...

DYI Home for About a Thousand Bucks

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Can Eco-Playful Sabras Do Bamboo?

Israelis, as the saying goes, are like a cactus fruit, because they are prickly on the outside but sweet in the middle. We kind of...

Review of ‘A Crack in the Earth’ by Haim Watzman

This recently published book's full title is 'A Crack in the Earth: A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley,' and it is just that; in...

Robbie Burns: Scotland’s Green Prophet Poet

"Gie me a spark o' natures fire, thats a' the learning I desire: Then, tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire at pleugh or cart, my...

Natalie Portman’s Vegan Feet

Natalie Portman has taken up design… big deal! Another hot actress designing clothes… This actually is a big deal. Sizzling its way through all...

Neta In Wonderland (via Tel Aviv)

We bumped into Neta's blog "bobilina" by accident and have been so charmed by her unique hand-made creations, often done with the help of...

The New Year of the Trees

Although Israel has grown into a modern post-industrial economy, the country still has strong agrarian roots, most famously, the agricultural socialist community of the kibbutz. But earlier than that, the Bible proscribes things to do to mark the passing seasons. There are rights and rituals for nature in Judaism and it all started thousands of years ago.

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Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

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Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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