By Karin Kloosterman
Today’s Earth Day – We know that billionaires with their minds and hearts in the right place, can do right by the planet.
Taking notice, Forbes business magazine has looked beyond its regular annual billionaires list and has plucked out Israel’s banking and cruiseline heiress Shari Arison as one of the world’s greenest.
Greenest billionaires, [...]
Forbes Picks Israeli Billionaire As One of the World’s Greenest
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Business · Environment · Karin Kloosterman
My Meeting With The Prince of Jordan
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments
By Karin Kloosterman
Karin, a Canadian-Israeli, meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East and Europe gathered in Montreux, Switzerland for a two-day workshop on Water [...]
Tags: Environment · Karin Kloosterman
Israel Hosts Week-Long Water Symposium for Manitoba Guests
January 11th, 2010 · No Comments
We already know that Israel and the Province of Manitoba are collaborating on wetlands research. And last year Canada’s water experts from Manitoba were in Israel to learn about the very dry country’s techniques in water conservation.
Last week my friend from Reuters sent me a note that Israel is to host the second Manitoba-Israel Water [...]
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