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Take a Ride with Cinderella on Project 'Pumpkin'

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Eco-Writing Residency

We here at Green Prophet are all about writing about the environment, and so we were very excited when an 'environmental writing residency'...

An Upcycled Cardboard Crib Lessens Impact of Nursery Madness

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Billboard waste to hand bags

They're up, then they're down. Up, then down. The story with the billboards along the Tel Aviv Ayalon Highway is a bit of a...

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

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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...

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Health Canada approves lab grown milk

Canada's approval of animal-free dairy proteins marks a milestone for precision fermentation and the growing alternative-protein industry. Will consumers embrace milk made without cows?

Before Funeral, Auburn University Creates Environmental Scholarship in Memory of Weston Higginbotham

The James "Weston" Higginbotham Endowed Scholarship will support Auburn students pursuing ecological engineering, ensuring that the work Weston cared about so deeply continues long after his passing.

Weston Higginbotham’s Family Declines to Release Cause of Death in Kyoto Forest

The family of Weston Higginbotham,an Auburn University student whose disappearance and death in the mountains near Kyoto, Japan, drew international attention, has declined to publicly release the cause of his death.

5 Reasons Why You Should Save Seeds (and plant them)

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