Eco Rabbi: Take the Hanukkah Challenge!
A modified version of this post will be presented as part of Sviva Israel’s Eco Lights Hannukah Program Ever wonder why every day of Hanukkah we add another candle? The Talmud explains that this...
View Article10 Common Misconceptions About Breastfeeding Your Baby
Breastfeeding is a natural and “green” way for a mother to feed her baby. Yet misconceptions about how to breastfeed and for how long pervade our modern world. These misunderstandings can lead to...
View ArticleCity Tree’s Composter Workshop in Tel Aviv
If you are looking to sharpen your composting skills, banish flies, kill odors, and speed along the making of rich fertilizer for your garden, while running a greener kitchen, City Tree has the answer....
View Article10 Ways To Buy Less When You Breastfeed Your Baby
A common misconception about breastfeeding and babies in general is that they require special equipment. But we already know on Green Prophet that a mom who buys less is by default acting in an...
View Article10 Twitter Tips for Cleantech Companies
Over the past few months companies are joining Twitter or consulting advisors about joining Twitter in droves. If you haven’t heard of Twitter, it is a micro-blogging tool that lets you share publicly...
View ArticleShop Vintage in Tel Aviv Because Vintage Is Green and Stylish
Reduce, reuse, recycle: the three rules of green living. Thrift, second-hand, and vintage shopping all follow all three. Firstly you’re reducing the need for new products to be manufactured. Secondly...
View ArticleSave Water and Energy In Your Washing Machine With Top Tips
In honor of Earth Day today, I’d like to talk about the important Middle East issue of saving water. One organization based in Israel called Paamonim, which I’ve wrote about here, helps Israeli...
View ArticleAloe Vera – A Prickly Plant with Pizzazz
Some Aloe Vera gelato I saw in Milan…but I wasn’t brave enough to taste it! You’ve heard of aloe vera gel, aloe vera cream, but have you ever head of aloe vera ice cream? Well maybe the Italians have...
View Article5 Tips to Save You Time and Energy in the Kitchen
Do you smile when you walk into your kitchen or does it make you frown? Maybe it is time to change your kitchen into a room you like. Summertime can be stressful with vacation from school, children...
View Article6 Ways to Make Your Conference Go “Green”
All conferences, regardless of their topic, are inherently unsustainable. International events with attendees and speakers from around the world often leave an enormous carbon footprint before they...
View ArticleGreen Prophets Start at Home: The Kitchen
This kicks off the first in a series of tips to make you and your life, a little more green. Home is where the green heart is, and the kitchen is a great place to start making your home more...
View ArticleGreen Prophets Start at Home: The Bathroom
Last week Green Prophet took you on a whirlwind tour of a green kitchen party. This week we head to the bathroom. Some first steps in making the bathroom green, could start with natural cleaners on...
View ArticleGreen Baby Steps: Eco-Mum on Nursery Madness
Green Prophet welcomes our latest writer, Eco-Mum Sophie Ohana. We’ve blogged about her new organic baby clothes company Tinok Yarok here before. Sophie is going to be writing a weekly post on...
View ArticleJoe Lamp'l's "Green Gardener's Guide," a Review
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...
View ArticleLeave it Cleaner
Thinking back to picnics as a kid I can still hear my parents’ voices telling me to leave the place cleaner than how we found it. Until this day this thought is what goes through my mind whenever I sit...
View ArticleEco Purim
With the holiday of Purim drawing near it’s a great opportunity to rethink bad holiday habits. Here’s a few things to mull over: Think reusable with the Mishloach Manot. Baskets look nice, but they...
View ArticleCar Pool
If you are traveling anywhere, whether to work or the mall, find out if any friend or neighbor need to get to where you are going. One less car on the road means less traffic and less pollution! Set up...
View Article6 Tips for Conserving Water in Israel and the Middle East
The recent attention given by the news media and this blog concerning our water problems in general, and to the depleting the Kinneret in particular, reminds me of a poster I saw once in a surfing...
View ArticleBack to School – Recycled Paper
Every ton of paper, roughly 200,000 sheets, that is recycled saves approximately 17 trees. The average school tosses 38 tons of paper each year, the equivalent of 644 trees. When you buy notebooks and...
View ArticlePrint With less Ink – Ecofont
How many times have you printed out a final draft and found out that it wasn’t as final as you had thought? I always feel bad for the paper, the ink, well, lot’s of guilt. Now there’s a solution! “How...
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