The tourism and minerals industry, as well as the Tamar Regional Council, argue over who must take responsibilities for what environmentalists call all “ecological disaster.”
Take the most beautiful blue blown-glass vase designed with divine providence, throw it against a wall, and watch it shatter into hundreds of pieces. Then, try to glue it back together again and enter it into a design competition. This is what is happening with the Dead Sea. The northern part is shrinking as a result of reduced inflow, while the southern end is expanding because of the Dead Sea Works’ alteration of its chemical balance.
As a result, Ein Boker’s tourism industry is in grave danger, but Tamar’s Regional Council Head is mostly concerned with having the Dead Sea listed as one of the World’s Seven Natural Wonders next year in order to draw increased tourism traffic to the Negev. Meanwhile, the Society for the Protection of Nature (SPNI) calls the lake an “ecological disaster;” how the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) rules in the coming month will determine which industry will endure the brunt of this disaster.
Tel Aviv’s first ‘green’ office tower uses recycled, sustainable and domestic building materials and ecological maintenance procedures for a long-term low impact on nature.
The honey bee chooses the flower, which changes the flavour of the honey. Which honey do you choose?
