By Karin Kloosterman
Jewish religious values can help green The Holy Land.
Noam Dolgin is a Jewish environmental educator and the executive director of the Green Zionist Alliance (GZA). Based in Vancouver, Canada, he travels regularly around North America teaching about Jewish environmental values and Israel’s environment.
Here’s our interview with him:
What are your organization’s core activities, [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

They’re on investors’ hit lists and the green tech media is keen to monitor their progress. Environmentalists and key policy makers around the world urge them on. Israeli solar technology innovators are channelling and shaping the sun’s energy and breaking North America’s dependence on oil.
With organizations like the Cleantech Group, an international business [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Looking at the Israeli-Dutch made Taga made me think that Toronto moms will want them. Soon to be available in the US, the hybrid stroller that you ride offers a steady and safe way to transport your bundle of joy.
The hybrid bike-stroller combo comes customizable with different kinds of seats and gives women [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

It happened a day after Canada and the rest of the world, but Israel celebrated Earth Day yesterday in style. While Israelis were caught with their pants down this year for Earth Hour (there was a very important Israel-Greece soccer match after all), they made up for it with last night’s concert at [...]

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By Staff
Canada’s Israel’s Karin Kloosterman writes about ways that Israelis are marking Earth Day today and tomorrow on another great blog, Green Prophet.
The featured event happens on April 23 from 8-9 pm when Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, among other cities, will turn their lights out to raise awareness about energy conservation.  Other highlights of the [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

(Above picture: Karin’s kitchen in Jaffa, Israel. Today she is going to show you how a Canadian girl has changed her diet to resemble the average Israeli. Well almost. She still hasn’t lapped up the last of the Canadian maple syrup!)
You are what you eat. Was it Health Canada or my Scottish mom [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Left, right and centre –– everywhere I look these days, the media is in a frenzy over Shai Agassi, the Israeli with the dream to electrify the car business through his Palo Alto business Better Place. America is plugging into the idea, and has declared that the states of California and Hawaii will [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Well the title of this post is kind of misleading. Sort of.
This is a story about Shari Arison, the billionaire heiress of Carnival Cruiselines. With a reported $5.5 billion in assets (according to Forbes), Arison is the richest woman in the Middle East. Owner of one of Israel’s banks, Arison is hard to [...]

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 By Lauren Kramer
The Manitoba Water Symposium was held last week, with 12 water specialists from Israel convening with local water researchers in Winnipeg August 12 to 14. The symposium was held at the impetus of Manitoba’s Minister of Water Stewardship, Christine Melnick, who is an admirer of Israel’s water regime and educational system. “I saw [...]

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by Karin Kloosterman
It’s known as the largest ever youth-led environment initiative in the world. Some 6 million people in 65 countries have lent a hand in the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition –– a campaign started about 10 years ago by high schoolers in Canada’s West Coast to save the Canadian spirit bear, an all-white black [...]

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