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Predict the Suit of the Future For a Chance to Win
Bagir recently announced the world's first recycled suit made from PET bottles, to be sold this Father's Day at Sears. We spoke with Moshe Godot from Bagir yesterday and he assures Americans that the special suit, as promised, will be ready for
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Explore the Hebrew Holiday of Shavuot and the Environment With Heschel Centers' Webinar
Hebrew holidays all seem to have a strong connection to the land and nature somehow. No better example for this than tonight's holiday Shavuot, the holiday of cheese. Well, it's not really the holiday celebrating
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A Picture is Worth... Surfriders' Catch of the Day
How about freshly "caught" fillets of condoms, a plastic surprise or Styrofoam bites? Here are a few examples of "Catch of the Day," a guerrilla ad campaign sponsored by Surfrider Foundation to educate people at farmers' markets about the
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Ecover Responds to the Organic Consumers Association 1,4 Dioxane Test and TH Post
Sometimes it's easy to look at study numbers, and without any solid background in the field, infer judgment about what those numbers mean. We do this when we see cancer studies, read about glaciers retreating, or count the alarming number of species
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Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth To Be Staged As Opera
We hope it's not a tragic one where all the main characters die in the end: The Associated Press is reporting that Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is going to be staged as an opera. From lecture halls to film, okay we get it. From film to books, a
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Franck de Las Mercedes Sends TreeHugger a Little Box of "Green" Peace
We were sure that when we went to the post office to pick up our box of "peace," labeled FRAGILE, that the clerk would react strangely. Don't you want to charge us for duty or something on this,
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Sears Sells Bagir's Recycled PET Bottle Suit on Father's Day
If you were a child of the Seventies you might, like us, have fond childhood memories leafing through the thick Sears' catalogue, choosing with your friends what you'd buy if you had a million dollars. Now that we have grown up and can't bear to
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Under Fuel Sanctions, Gazans Power Taxis With Falafel Oil
The leftover oil from falafel, a yummy fried Middle Eastern snack, is now powering taxi cars in Gaza. Faced with fuel sanctions, petrol stations in Gaza are empty. While leftover cooking oil from street vendors, mixed with turpentine doesn’t drive like
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Leviathan Powers Your Home With Every Flush
Hydroelectric power is generated when moving water passes through turbines. Why stick to water in rivers says Leviathan Energy, a Delaware-incorporated company with R&D; in Israel. Water moving through the sewer system could work too! Some extreme
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San Fran's Mayor Newsom To Ride Israel's Electric Car Wave?
Judging by the stretch limos and police escorts whirling through my neighborhood today, it sounds like George W. Bush's entourage has landed in Jerusalem. Al Gore is due to come next week to collect a cool $1 million prize at Tel Aviv University
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Green From The Inside Out at Tel Aviv's Houses From Within
How exciting is it to look inside other people's homes to see the way they live. City events couldn't get more sustainable than weekends out at Open House, where city-dwellers open their doors to let the public marvel
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Cousteaus Set Marine Education Sails to Israel
A few strategically placed keywords in a news article has given birth to marine education collaboration between Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society and Israel's EcoOcean
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Yoav Kotik's Recycling Between the Garbage and the Flowers
Exhibiting last Fall with Design Boom in Tokyo, Israel's Yoav Kotik is not afraid to try new things. From an industrial designer to working in the insurance industry, and now back to the world of Art, Kotik at 50, is now exhibiting his recycled flowers
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Environment Reading for People of the Book
They say that Jews are the People of the Book. If so, then every Jewish TreeHugger should consider aligning their religious values with the environment. Or is Judaism naturally environmentally friendly by default?
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From Fortune 500 to CLIMACT, Offsetting At The End Of The Line
Those following the carbon offset market closely might be wondering about the differences in missions and motives between providers who are in it for profit,
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Wine Tour On Wheels, With King David
Tourism is growing again in Israel and along with it the awareness of eco-tourism. Long-time residents or tourists to the Holy Land looking to travel a bit off the beaten path, should consider the one-week cycling and winery tour laid out by the
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Low-Impact Avatar Man
An entire world is thriving in the virtual online community Second Life. With TreeHuggers in the game, elements of environmentalism are slowly seeping into play.
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To Profit, Or Not To Profit, Join The Offsetting Debate
Today, at Carbon Catalog, TerraPass takes on the
