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City Transformer's foldable electric vehicle (City Trasnformer)
February 27, 2024, 9:55 pm
‘A game changer’: Israel-based firm’s foldable electric car to hit roads in July
City Transformer’s $17,400 CT-2 aims to transform urban travel; constructed from sustainable materials, running on a smaller battery, innovative vehicle leaves a minimal footprint
By Michael Horovitz
A worker cleans off a protest sign on the Golden Bull, a replica of Wall street Charging Bull, outside the Brazilian B3 Stock Exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP/Andre Penner)
November 23, 2022, 4:30 am
Israeli group helps rank companies on UN sustainability goals for annual prize
YK Center, which advocates for UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, jointly announces awards for top SDG performers among banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges
By Sue Surkes
Children in Africa benefit from safe drinking water thanks to Israeli technology brought to them via the nonprofit Innovation Africa. (courtesy)
April 13, 2022, 11:13 am
Expert hopes green version of Israel Bonds could help world fund better future
World-renowned emeritus prof. Yehuda Kahane proposes government sustainability bonds, like those the Jewish state issued in early years to help create infrastructure, jobs
By Sue Surkes
Zahia Abu-Armeilah with her beehive in East Jerusalem's Abu Tor neighborhood. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2021, 6:06 am
Amateur Palestinian beekeepers bring a new buzz to East Jerusalem rooftops
In two years, the Sinsila project in East Jerusalem has taught almost 100 women how to cultivate bees for saleable honey and grow plants and vegetables at home
By Sue Surkes
Dmytro Spilka
July 27, 2021, 4:17 pm
Dmytro Spilka
Catering to cleantech: how Israel is evolving into a sustainability pioneer
Israel is a nation that has a muddled relationship with sustainability, but emerging ‘cleantech’ and pioneering innovations may be set to put the record straight on the environment
Disposable plastic forks (Ewloskalw, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia)
July 20, 2021, 3:41 am
Israel’s Technion to ban most disposable plastic from October 1
Review finds that during 2019, Haifa institute bought over 2.3 million disposable cups, nearly a million single-use teaspoons and hundreds of thousands of other single-use items.
By Sue Surkes
Israelis take part in a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change, Tel Aviv, March 29, 2019. The sign reads: 'What green do you see?' (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)
June 2, 2021, 5:27 am
Israeli businesses told to think sustainability or sink financially
First environment conference to be initiated by business community hears that public pressure, international regulations and likelihood of Israel climate law all point green
By Sue Surkes
Dr Elaine Solowey in her greenhouse at Kibbutz Ketura in southern Israel, March 21, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
May 12, 2021, 11:48 am
After reviving ancient dates, a Negev pioneer plants seeds against a dry future
Having germinated the world’s oldest seed and domesticated the argan oil tree, Elaine Soloway is now tinkering with how to keep a changing desert blooming
By Sue Surkes
Israel's offshore Leviathan gas field is seen from on board the Israeli Navy ship Lahav on September 29, 2020. (AP /Ariel Schalit)
January 24, 2021, 8:23 am
Ministries feud over future of natural gas in climate change tug-of-war
Environmental Protection and Energy ministries trying to reach pre-election deal on renewable targets and whether Israel can move to almost total reliance on sun by 2050
By Sue Surkes
Dead Sea Periclase Ltd. (Shira Sal Webshat, via Israel Chemicals Ltd)
December 30, 2020, 5:04 pm
Israel Chemicals planning to build solar plant in southern Israel
Company says 5.5-megawatt facility, set to supply energy to Dead Sea Periclase Ltd, which produces magnesium products, forms part of overall plan to improve sustainability
By Sue Surkes
A younger resident of Shahak Heights enjoying his bike. (Shira Malul/via Ayalim)
December 29, 2020, 11:10 am
For 21st century Zionist pioneers, it takes an off-the-grid eco-village
Green tech underpins first of several planned eco-communities in Negev cities, but organizers struggle to find secular families as idealistic as young religious ones
By Sue Surkes
File: Silhouette of the Ashkelon power station at sunset, October 17, 2007 (Edi Israel/Flash90)
June 1, 2020, 10:14 pm
Environment minister unveils ‘green deal’ to kickstart economy sustainably
As ministries finalize plans and prepare to compete for funds, Gila Gamliel says coronavirus crisis represents opportunity to push economic growth promoting environment, health
By Sue Surkes
People celebrate Israel's 71st Independence Day in Netanya on May 8, 2019. (Flash90)
March 20, 2020, 2:31 pm
Israel slips a spot but still a high 14th in World Happiness survey
Finland (again) tops UN’s annual World Happiness Report; ; US, UK rise; Tel Aviv is world 8th happiest city; data prepared before coronavirus crisis
By AP and ToI Staff
An angle of SkyVille, a Singaporean high-rise project that combines a hotel, office space and vertical public parks, featured in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art's current exhibit, 'Solar Guerrilla,' through December 2019 (Courtesy Skyshot Pte Ltd.)
September 19, 2019, 12:55 pm
Tel Aviv exhibit examines sustainable living solutions from around the world
‘Solar Guerrilla’ features works by architects, landscape designers and industrial designers looking at a wide range of responses to climate change
By Jessica Steinberg
Young Israelis take part in a protest demanding action on climate change, Tel Aviv, April 27, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 3, 2019, 6:46 pm
What role is Israel playing as the world heats up and CO2 reaches record levels?
Climate change envoy says Israel has negligible impact on planetary destruction, but is reducing pollution, is world water use champion, pioneers alternatives to plastic and more
By Sue Surkes
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