Karin Kloosterman, at The Blogs

May 30, 2024, 12:12 PM

Yemenite Jews sing for the Houthis a song of peace

The Voices of Yemen, a group of Yemenite Jews who sing Jewish liturgical songs from Yemen, are tired of the Houthis attacking ships in the Red Sea and they are tired of missiles being fired at Eilat. The Yemeni Jews...

Jan 22, 2024, 5:11 PM

A sustainable Yemen

Yemen is all over the news the last couple of months as the Houthi terrorists play a role in Israel's war against Hamas. As a sustainable news reporter, I've been interested in Yemen because as much of the Middle...

Jan 11, 2024, 3:53 PM

Israeli scientist finds that Amazon deforestation is killing storms

For the first time scientists have determined that due to the ongoing deforestation in the Amazon basin in recent decades, the number of thunderstorms and rain in the region has decreased significantly, and the area over which they occur...

Jan 3, 2024, 11:58 AM

Lifeline print documents Hamas horrors

“Lifeline” to be hung in every office and school in America; funds raised to rebuild a kibbutz community that terror ripped apart It was 6:25 in the morning Oct. 7, and Gal-Lee Maroodi’s husband Omer put his ear to the...

Jan 2, 2024, 12:42 PM

Israel’s Ecological Rabbi David Pearlman Paran

The Jewish faith points to a number of sources that lead us to understand how to marvel in creation starting at Genesis with the Creation story. But it is also a living religion full of day-to-day practical tips for...

Sep 12, 2023, 6:00 PM

Israel’s uneven impact in the cultivated meat market

Israel is the global hotspot for alternative meat technology. The country’s growing population and limited farmable land, and climate change-induced water shortages have motivated Israeli companies to focus on developing cultivated meat as an environmentally-sustainable alternative. Alternative meat can mean a lot of things:...

Dec 13, 2022, 2:44 PM

Celebrating Dubai’s 20-minute city

Dubai was built in a New York minute, so fast that things like sewers couldn't be dug to truck out human waste from the Burj. Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, in general, has a scale problem. But this...

Dec 8, 2022, 10:17 AM

Balena has a whale of an idea for fast fashion

It's a whale of an idea. A biodegradable plastic that returns to the earth with a little bit of help. Stella McCartney runway models... start your engines. A new biodegradable plastic is about to hit the fashion world. If you’ve...

Dec 26, 2019, 10:51 AM

Cards and apps, making our lives (and planet) more efficient

My yoga center just announced that I need to download an app before I start a yoga class - every single time.. Drat. I hate using apps that I don’t need. I prefer to not use too many apps...

Dec 19, 2019, 4:43 PM

Hell happened when electric bikes and mopeds took over Jaffa

Risk your life by walking on the streets of Jaffa. That’s how I feel when I walk out the front gate of our home. The plague of inexperienced scooter drivers has hit the city. Until not long ago most...

About Me

Karin Kloosterman is a long-time journalist, and eco-entrepreneur, championing her energy for the earth and the good people and animal friends who live on it. She is a tech patent owner, brand designer, a published scientist, and an award-winning journalist. She's consulted governments, educational institutions and corporates such as Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, TEVA, and Tel Aviv University. She founded the first international cannabis technology conference in Israel, CannaTech, to promote medical cannabis as medicine and science. And she developed a robot to grow cannabis on earth and on Mars. Find her sustainability ideas at the world's first and leading eco news site for the Middle East, Green Prophet www.greenprophet.com Contact her: karin@greenprophet.com

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