(Posing for a photo in front of Tel Aviv’s old garbage dump, Hiriya, the rectum of Tel Aviv.)
That backdrop of the photo where Green Prophet’s Karin is sitting with her dog is not an archeological mound; nor is it a natural hill outside the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
What has become one of the metropolitan area’s most noticeable landmarks, and eyesores, is none other than the former Hiriya Garbage mound, the rectum of Tel Aviv, which for half a century served as the city’s primary landfill and garbage dump, until its closure in 1998.
The area has now been under consideration to be turned into a huge national park. People are already starting to ride their bikes around the mound, and enjoy the area as though it’s a preserved nature site.
During the week of May 10, 2009, Ormat, a geothermal company, announced its plans to build a plant in Indonesia and Globes reported that major cleantech investors are planning to visit Israel in the near future.
Green building is becoming a fad in Arab countries. We’ve all probably heard of the world’s first c
