Karin Kloosterman
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Does Dioxane Blow the Lid off Ecover's Green Cover?
Looking beyond the products' labeling and phosphate-freeness, the Organic Consumer's Association
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Un-treehugger: A Yacht That Thinks It's An Island
Just when we thought the 80s and Miami Vice were behind us: Take a look at Wally Yachts', WallyIsland, a company that advertises: "Why buy just any luxury yacht when you can own an island?"
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Hybrid Merri-Go-Round Water Pump Saves Lives in Africa
Tell a kid to do some work, like clean their room or take out the garbage, and they roll their eyes and run in the other direction. If you're living in a rural village in Africa, Mom might ask you to walk 2 miles for a bucket of water. What do you
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In Tel Aviv, Earth Hour Cyclists Put the Pedal to the Metal
It happened two days before Earth Hour everywhere else and true to their promise, cyclists were out powering the rock concert in Tel Aviv that brought out some 40,000 people at Rabin Square last night. Karen Chernick from Green Prophet reports that "As
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Human Pedalers to Power Heavy Metal Show During Earth Hour
Is this cheating?
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Through the Jungle of Non-Profit Carbon Offset Providers
Wildly varying prices, questions of accountability, and the carbon neutral myth, TreeHuggers everywhere we can imagine, are trying to make sense of the carbon offset business.
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Goodbye Catwalk and End-of-Season Inventory, Hello StyleShake
TreeHugger is a big fan of computer prototypes in designing functional furniture and green homes, how about in fashion? A new UK-based company StyleShake lets women design, share patterns, choose their fabric and order their creations through the
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Plantware: New Meaning to Urban Jungle
Imagine a bus shelter that grows extra-long roots for you to sit on and leafy greens as shade. Or a living playground made from trees?
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Abu Yoyo: Bagging a City's Billboard Surplus
Thousands of meters of advertising billboard plastic was getting thrown away every month in Tel Aviv. While the fate of highway banner advertising around Tel Aviv is yet to be determined, Noami of Abu Yoyo (means piggybacking in Hebrew) has found a
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Lights Out Ladies: Brightly-Lit Neighbourhoods Associated With Breast Cancer
Women who live in well-lit neighborhoods are at a greater risk for developing breast cancer than those who live in darker areas, find Israeli scientists.
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Paying for One's "Carbon Sins" May Cost Pennies
We are all becoming more eco-conscious, right? We might not exactly be following in the footsteps of No Impact Man or be as Green as a Thistle, but we're trying. Eating organic food is important to us, as is eating locally.
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Rocking the Cardboard Cradle
Treehuggers love flat-pack furniture and even houses. We rave about it all the time. We also love anything made from recycled materials. When we found Green Lullaby's flat pack Eco Cradle made from 100% recycled cardboard boxes, we nearly flipped our
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Al Gore to Collect a Cool $1 Million Prize at Tel Aviv University
It just goes to show you how much the environment has become a sign of the times. Al Gore is set to fly into Israel in May to collect a cool $1 million dollar cash award presented by the Dan David Foundation, housed at Tel Aviv University.
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It's a Greenhouse Gas, Gas, Gas
'Jumping Jack Flash, it's a greenhouse gas' learned Israeli government, trade and NGOs this week during a two-day workshop on voluntary greenhouse gas accountancy at a pleasant Finnish-built village near Jerusalem.
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Keeping Gorillas In Our Midst
What good is having wildlife protection laws if the government and police don't enforce them? Taking cues from our personal heroes Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall is animal conservation hero Ofir Drori from Tel Aviv.
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Shake Your Money Maker and Power Your iPod
Brace yourself — ever dream of becoming the Bionic Man or Woman? Well now's your chance to feel like Steve Austin or Jamie Sommers. Researchers from Simon Fraser University and the University of Michigan have invented a knee brace that generates
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Fish Farming Moves to the Condo
Big fish are moving into the big city. Recent headlines about contaminants found in the sushi of New York restaurants gives us all the more reason to love Yonathan Zohar's city fish farms. Perfect for the basements of large condos or parked near a big
