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Entries Tagged as 'Environment'

Magna’s “Magna Steyr” Joins Israel, China and Italy to Make New “Chery” Electric Car

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman

Fans of Canada’s “Canada for Better Place” website can’t wait for the roll out of an all-electric vehicle grid to hit the roads of Canada. Better Place, the Israeli company based in California has designs to electrify not only Canada’s roads, but roads of the world.
Canada’s Israel blog has previously reported Better Place’s [...]

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Tags: Business · Environment · Hi-Tech & Innovation · Karin Kloosterman

5 Israeli Markets, Farmer’s and Traditional (with Google maps)

July 7th, 2010 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman

Tel Aviv Carmel Market. Above image via esme
Visitors to Israel’s best fruit and vegetable markets already know the country’s two most famous landmarks: The Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, which winds down from trendy Sheinkin Street right down the Mediterranean the Sea.
And Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda Market, which anthropologically speaking, is most interesting on [...]

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Tags: Environment · Food · Karin Kloosterman

McGuinty’s Mission to Israel Checks Out Clean Technology

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman

Ontario Premier, Dalton McGuinty, checks out electric cars in Israel with Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place. Photo Source: The Toronto Star

As Lauren pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty was scheduled for a trade mission to Israel later this month.
He and his entourage arrived in Tel [...]

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Tags: Environment · Karin Kloosterman · Politics