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Fresh Paint With EcoOcean: A Splash of Green

Michael Green
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Fresh Paint With EcoOcean: A Splash of Green
EcoOcean founder Andreas Weil
EcoOcean founder Andreas Weil

This weekend the Young Israeli Art Fair, aka Fresh Paint, comes to Tel Aviv with an extra splash of green. The showcase for up-coming, independent artists has a special installation curated by environmental NGO, EcoOcean.

The Green Project will showcase environmental art that, the organisers say, “identifies art as an integral part of our environment, quality of life and future”.

In recent prophecies we showed how environmental issues are filtering into the mainstream of modern culture, whether through the media of clothing, design or poetry. In this spirit, works of green artwork will be available for auction with proceeds going towards EcoOcean’s work to preserve the marine ecosystems.

Fresh Paint runs from Thursday 6 March until Saturday 8 March at 47 Kibbutz Galuyot Road, Tel Aviv. Click for opening times and more details.

Joe Lamp'l's "Green Gardener's Guide," a Review

James Murray-White
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Joe Lamp'l's "Green Gardener's Guide," a Review

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Here is a great book for all gardeners and garden lovers who want to go that wee bit further and work with the earth and plants in a truly green way. Joe Lamp’l has filled his new book, ‘The Green Gardener’s Guide’ with tips and actions that every gardener or green-conscious citizen can take immediately to conserve and preserve precious resources.

Lamp’l is a gardening writer and host of several tv shows in the US, with a clear passion for communicating about gardening and environmental stewardship. This book is in effect, a ‘call to spades’ for gardeners worldwide, detailing ecological methods to get, and keep, the garden green.

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Geotectura Builds a Green Future for Israel’s Real Estate

Ilana Teitelbaum
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Geotectura Builds a Green Future for Israel’s Real Estate

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Green building in Israel seems to be gaining momentum, as witnessed by the recent breakthrough of scientists from the Technion whose prize-winning research is going into building a green sanctuary in China (alas, not here!).

It’s being spearheaded with particular enthusiasm by architect Joseph Cory, whose company Geotectura professes to be committed to creating buildings that are environmentally friendly.

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Staying Warm

Jack Reichert
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Staying Warm

March 2 - Staying Warm - Green Prophet.jpg When trying to stay warm in the winter make sure that your heater has a thermostat. Using a thermostat will make sure that you do not use excess energy. It’s great to reap the benefits of modern living and technology. That used to mean that you could stay warm at all. In today’s world it means that you can stay warm and save! Check your thermostats and GreenYourselfDaily!

Dead Sea Canal Peace Project…Let it Flow

Jack Reichert
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Dead Sea Canal Peace Project…Let it Flow

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There has been much talk about water shortage, eco-energy, peace and the drying up of the Dead Sea. Here’s a solution, long talked about and now may solve all of these (and it might even cover up that embarrassing bald spot on the top or your head! – well no.)

“Together with President Shimon Peres and the King of Jordan, I believe we will succeed in building the Peace Channel,” Yitzhak Tshuva said Wednesday morning in New York at the opening of the two-day U.S. Israel Executive Summit.

While it might not restore follicle damage this project has much potential creating opportunities for desalination and electric plants for both Israel and Jordan. It can potentially be harmful as well.

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Bagir's Recycled Plastic Bottle Suit Gives New Meaning to Euro-Trash

Karin Kloosterman
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Bagir's Recycled Plastic Bottle Suit Gives New Meaning to Euro-Trash

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Israeli clothing company Bagir outfits about 1 in 6 UK men. A fraction of those men are set to become more chic with Bagir’s Eco-Gir, a suit made from 100% recycled materials, 30 PET plastic bottles.

The company is also set to become the first in the world to label its products with a carbon label.

How is that Israel is so behind in the environment circle one minute and then leagues ahead the next? Maybe divine intervention to quenching the Israeli thirst for plastic? For those suave men who don’t like polyester, Bagir has also developed a line from organic cotton.

See also the funky stain hiding stickers of Sticky Stains and the most perfect way to slip into winter without having to turn up the thermostat wearing the Slipper Rocker.

::Bagir

1 Equals 5

Jack Reichert
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1 Equals 5

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Every single degree that you raise your central heating raises the cost of running your heating by 5 percent. Try to sharpen your awareness to what temperatures you are comfortable at. Do you need to keep your heat on quite so high? We’re not suggesting that you should be cold.

Just be aware of how high you keep your heating.

Even one degree can make a big difference and that way you can GreenYourselfDaily… in the winter.

Here Comes the Choo Choo:EcoMum on Your Baby’s First Food

Sophie Ohana
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Here Comes the Choo Choo:EcoMum on Your Baby’s First Food

Well of course I am going to tell you that organic is best for lots and lots of reasons, but first the high note: it actually can work out a lot cheaper as well. All those prepared baby foods are far more expensive pound for pound than organically grown food.

In the next few weeks I am going to introduce you to your toxic world and why it is so important to really make the change when a baby comes along. I am starting first with food because this is usually our first introduction to an organic lifestyle.

We all know that conventional foods use hundreds of different synthetic chemicals–from the field to manufacturing–but did you know that the levels deemed acceptable in foods are based on adult consumption? A bit scary when you think about your children and babies whose small bodies are still growing and are therefore so, so much more vulnerable to all these nasty chemicals. Babies are able to absorb food far more efficiently than adults, increasing their susceptibility to toxins in their food. Organic food production is closely monitored (always look for certification) providing you with healthy, chemical free food and tastier to boot! And if that isn’t enough, you can also feel good about promoting a healthier environment for your child’s future.

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Hand Me Around

Jack Reichert
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Hand Me Around

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It may be a status symbol to wear the latest styles, but every think about wearing the best? If it works, why fix it?

There’s a new movement now among the avant-garde to mix-match old clothing. It gives a retro funky look and now represents caring about your world.

I’m not telling you to look like a derelict. But think twice before you throw it out. And if you wont wear it again, there are plenty of places that will take it and give it a chance to be someone else’s new look.

Be creative, and it can become another way you can GreenYourselfDaily.

The Great Airways Debate Part 2: Food for Thought

Michael Green
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The Great Airways Debate Part 2: Food for Thought

food-miles-green-prophetWhile the subject of air travel has become a hot topic this week, it’s worth remembering that it’s not just people that travel by jumbo jet – lots of the food eaten in Western countries is flown across the globe before it reaches our plates.

Israel is in a unique position globally in that it produces virtually all of it’s own fresh food itself and even has a healthy export surplus.

But the phenomenon of ‘food miles’ has become a cause celebre for environmentalists in Europe and the USA where, in countries like the UK, the proportion of imported food is growing steadily as agricultural self-sufficiency spirals ever downwards.

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Save Your Mistakes

Jack Reichert
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Save Your Mistakes

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When your printer misprints, or you misprint with your printer, save your paper. This paper can be used in a number of alternative ways. If you have children, this paper is great for coloring on (and then of course covering your fridge with).

Many people like to jot down ideas before typing them up, (re)use this paper. I have also seen in one office, instead of the usual colorful square note pages on people’s desks, last month’s memo on the back to today’s note page…

It may not be as glamorous, but it’s a great way to GreenYourselfDaily! 

Bio-Fuels and the Aviation Industry

James Murray-White
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Bio-Fuels and the Aviation Industry
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Etihad business class. Small cabins flying through the air. A necessity or carbon gluttony?

Things are really hotting up this week in the great debate about air transport being the big nasty in terms of pollution and climate change, as well as the social impact of airport expansion.

Firstly, Virgin Airways, of the entrepreneurial Richard Branson type, unleashed its first test flight of a plane using bio-fuel from Heathrow.

The environmental media in the UK was scathing of this first-ever flight: “coconut airways – jet on a flight to nowhere” taunted The Guardian. While Branson hailed the flight from London to Holland as revolutionary, it was revealed that of the 747’s 4 fuel-carrying tanks, 3 were filled with regular fuel, while the 4th had a mixture of 80% regular fuel, and 20% coconut and babassu palm oil.

Branson, as well as getting involved in some interesting plans for commercial space travel, and working with Green Prophet hero Al Gore on a range of environmental technology schemes, is starting to invest the profit from his transport network into bio-fuels research, particularly into algae as a major component.

Friends of the Earth UK and the World Development Movement (WDM) both commended the experiment but said it didn’t go far enough in seriously attempting to reduce emissions in the aviation Industry. Earlier bio-fuels trials in the UK by both bus and train companies were abandoned, due to research and financial restraints.

Back to Heathrow, and anyone who has ever flown there (via British Airways or El Al from Israel) will be aware of the controversy surrounding the new terminal – which is built and shortly to be opened, and the proposed new runway.

People have had compulsory purchase orders upon their land and property in the area, and a river has been diverted. This morning this short film When I Grow Up arrived in my inbox, graphically showing the effect of increased aviation on the children in the area.

The Politics of Water: Study It Dead or Red

Karin Kloosterman
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The Politics of Water: Study It Dead or Red

women swims underwater with flippers in the red seaWorld Water Day is every year on March 22.

Here at Green Prophet, we love writing about water, probably because water issues are such a big deal in the region. Now at Tel Aviv University, water and politics has become an international course of action. The following is a news item about a new undergrad water course happening this summer — bound to be a splash for both foreign students and locals.

In Israel, there is the Sea of Galilee, the Red Sea, the Dead Sea – and even the Mediterranean Sea. Israel is home to some of the world’s most diverse and unique bodies of water, yet a sustainable source of drinking water for the region, is yet to be secured.

For the first time ever, TAU’s Porter School of Environmental Studies, is opening its classrooms, and Israel’s waterways, to overseas students. Through a new summer course, English speaking students are invited to enter the scientific and political discourse on the region’s precious water resources.

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Pass it on

Jack Reichert
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Pass it on

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Educating about the environment is considered a very powerful way of carbon offsetting. By inspiring others to change their habits not only are you fighting the battle for our planet, you are getting others to as well.

Just one tip:

Don’t be forceful or obnoxious about it. Mr. Dale Carnegie said: “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” Don’t argue to win, you will actually loose the battle in the end.

Instead, be gentle and model correct behavior for others. By doing so you not only GreenYourselfDaily but others as well.

Palestinian Engineer Helps Build Tel Aviv Light Rail Train (And Peace)

Karin Kloosterman
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Issa Zananiri light rail train tel avivIssa Zananiri (left) and his supervisor from the Technion.

It might be a bit of a head-scratcher for those who see nothing but the violent clashes on TV, but a Palestinian is now part of a Tel Aviv design and planning team, working on the city’s new light rail train project, to be completed by 2012. The train is expected to ease congestion and pollution in the city’s busy streets. And with Issa Zananiri on board, it might also help ease a little of the tension between Palestinians and Israelis.

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