Sustainability

The scarcity doctrine and Israel’s historic weakness as a global strength - opinion

Israel is a nation that turned a lack of resources into a high-growth system defined not by what it has, but by how it survives.

Rises on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange – Green Screens.
Harvesting coffee cherries that contain the coffee beans used to make coffee.

Strauss coffee initiative brews opportunity for women farmers in the Global South

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

'Pollution without borders': Gaza sewage flows north, contaminating Israeli waters

Gaps in Israel’s grid capacity, public transport systems, waste treatment facilities, and regulatory frameworks mean that many innovations to improve the environment cannot be deployed at a meaningful scale.

Israel’s infrastructure paradox: Innovation without environmental foundations - opinion


Future Meat Technologies produces its first lab-grown lamb

Cultivated meat is potentially a good way to produce meat sustainably as it frees up many resources required to raise cattle.

 Future Meat Technologies' cultivated lamb.

Israeli women enjoy more freedom, gender equality than other countries - opinion

While there is definitely still room for improvement, women in Israel can be reassured that we are thankfully in a relatively strong position compared with many of our sisters abroad.

 PROTESTING THE US decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, in Tel Aviv, July 4.

Sustainability is the key to Israel’s future

Attorney-turned-environmentalist Michal Bitterman says a paradigm shift is needed to ensure a safer, healthier Israel

 At a 2018 TEDx event in Jaffa, ‘The Food We Don’t See.’

Israeli startup UBQ teams up with Crescent Garden for a sustainable gardening breakthrough

The planters are the first in gardening supplies to substitute plastic with climate-positive UBQ, a major breakthrough for the horticulture field.

An example of what UBQ Materials can be used for.

Mitrelli's Haim Taib talks to African ambassadors at Africa Day event

“The relationship between Israel and Africa is strategic with the potential for mutual growth. The world has yet to recognize Africa’s potential as a global growth engine. Africa is the future.”

 Haim Taib, founder and president of the Mitrelli Group, together with the African ambassadors to Israel and the president and founder of the Ambassadors' Club of Israel, Yitzhak Eldan.

UN delegation visits Israel to check out its climate tech

The country’s growing interest in ESG principles makes them a prime asset in the world’s fight against climate change

 Avi Hasson with the UN delegation

Shaamli: Ethical, sustainable footwear good for the sole and soul

The mission is to develop and market a range of stylish footwear that embraces the sole and the soul of the wearer using renewable sources of raw materials and supporting small to medium businesses.

 An ad for Shaamli shoes made of cork

Watergen Joins HRH Prince Charles' sustainable markets initiative

The Sustainable Markets Initiative is HRH Prince Charles' five decades-long effort in fighting climate change and biodiversity loss, which was launched at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos.

 HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales and Michael Rutman, Watergen's CO-CEO

Elah Fund backs up 'startup diversity' talk with a lot of money

“From a business perspective, diversity and inclusion has real substantive benefits.”

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Israel-Bahrain water sustainability cooperation can help avert crisis

In the long run, a Middle East alliance for water sustainability can have a positive impact on saving the Dead Sea, which is lacking regional cooperation. 

 EXTENSIVE COASTAL development in Manama.