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Eco-Writing Residency

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Billboard waste to hand bags

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The City Garden

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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...

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Eco Rabbi: Stones and Health

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Footprints in the Snow

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Jerusalemites say ‘no’ to nylon

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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

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