Last week, Green Prophet reported from the Cleantech 2008 expo, the annual exhibition of environmentally-friendly technologies and innovations in Israel. The talk of the town (or Airport City, at least) was the sun, following the announcement that the Israel Electric Company is going to pay families producing clean energy via solar panels. The sun’s nemesis, water, also featured heavily and Green Prophet spoke to a number of businesses working on solutions to the crisis of one of the regions most scarce resources.
“Forty per cent of household water can actually be reused,” says Ilan Katz, managing director of Water Arc, a new initiative to reduce the demand for water in urban areas. So-called “grey-water” includes waste water from showers, washing machines and bathroom sinks which can be reused for flushing toilets, which accounts for around 35% of the total water used by an average Israeli household, as well as watering plants and gardens.
yes. A trendy oasis, yeah, you could call it that too. But when you’re walking on busy Allenby Street or Dizengoff – the natural environment is probably the furthest thing from your urban experience.
City Tree
I hate to admit it (especially since I’m a vegetarian and like to think of Shavuot as my holiday), but sooner or later the cheese thing is gonna get old. And not in a French, moldy blue cheese kind of way. More of in a self-induced lactose intolerance kind of way.
In a special performance, Vertigo will perform Birth of the Phoenix, their ecologically-minded dance performance about the dialogue between humans and the environment. 
Borders, though an understood concept in the modern world, are anything but natural.