Projects

Our projects are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while achieving social benefits.

Moving to renewable and clean energy sources

Burning coal, petroleum, and mineral gas emit air pollutants and greenhouse gases that drive climate change. The transition to a carefully balanced energy consumption with gradual reliance on renewable sources has become mandatory.

Energy Projects

Sunstroke

Energy

Past Projects

Turning about 100 tons of organic waste every year, into natural gas. The two institutional biogas facilities were established in the youth village “Hadasa Neorim” in the Sharon, and in Moshav Adrat in the Elah Valley. They included a system for heating water for the institutional kitchen – and form pioneer models for the ‘Homebiogas’ company in Israel.

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A mobile experiential demonstration of the production and consumption of renewable energy. Our “Human Generator”, an installation made from recycled materials, used pedal-power to produce good energy and electricity which was then used for making fruit smoothies or to operate other electric appliances

From a pricy nuisance to a valuable resource

Landfilling waste is an expensive and harmful nuisance. We work to reduce landfilling of organic waste through separation at its source. We reuse, recycle and turn it into energy and soil fertilizers. The range of “Zero Waste Initiative” projects in the past and present demonstrate creative, modern, local, economic and social methods for waste treatment.

Waste Projects

Haram

Waste

What a Waste

Waste

Past Projects

The industrial symbiosis project works to locate “symbioses” – mutual collaborations between producers of waste from the industrial, business, and public sectors, and consumers of raw materials. Waste from one manufacturer becomes useful material for another. The project works to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills while creating an economic incentive to reuse waste or to define and market it as a raw material. This is a project initiated by the Ministry of Economy and Industry, in collaboration with the Ministry for Social Equality.

Neighborhood composting stations were established in a number of settlements in the Mate Yehuda Regional Council in order to encourage and teach the residents how to properly separate household organic waste, and how to return the prepared compost back to fertilize the residents’ home gardens.

Biochar is a super charcoal made by heating biomass such as wood-waste. It was made and used for centuries for improving agricultural soils. Biochar improves soil water retention, its physical and chemical structure, and the resistance of plants to diseases and pests. The production and placement of biochar “locks” atmospheric carbon in the soil in a stable manner. In Israel, which produces 1.1 million tons of wood waste per year from agricultural and urban pruning, and from KKL forests’ dilution, biochar has yet to take on.

The ‘Coal for the People’ project sought to revive this important agricultural tool and perfect it with modern technology. We built and operated a demonstration facility capable of turning 2 cubic meters of wood derived from rural pruning into a cubic meter of bio-char in Ayanot Youth Village near Ness Ziyonna.

We established and operated free-range chicken coops that turn leftover food waste into eggs, in the agricultural youth villages “Ayanot” and “Aloni Yitzhak”, and in 50 private houses in Mate Yehuda villages.

Students and residents learned how to separate wet organic waste, and raise healthy and happy chickens in the coop. In the youth villages, the waste went through aerial digestion (composting) for a month in the first stage, attracting insects and worms. Then the chickens were allowed free access to the pile of enriched compost and they dig in it and feed on the remains of undigested food, insects, and worms. The eggs they lay freely are collected and consumed locally.

See the forest for the trees

Trees play a crucial role in maintaining the planet we live on, as they improve the quality of life for humans and the entire ecosystem. Planting in neglected spaces also fabricates local communities that take responsibility for their environment. Last but not least, living close to trees improves a person’s physical and mental health.

Tree Planting Projects

Climate Forest

Tree planting

Past Projects

In the years 2011-2020, the “One Tree” project brought the forest to the city. Small seedlings were planted in “tree nurseries” in buckets on the roofs of buildings, inside campuses of business companies, and in schoolyards. After a year of growing in the buckets, the seedlings were donated to various communities and institutions for their planting. This is where the Climate Forest project developed from, deciding to continue and accompany the trees to their permanent planting on the ground, safe and sound.

From destructive agriculture based on chemistry to regenerative agriculture based on biology

Agriculture is the greatest interface of humans with nature. Modern agriculture increases the climate crisis and leads to the loss of our ability to grow food. Regenerative agriculture offers a viable solution for a sustainable, quick and proven change.

Agriculture Projects

Song of the Grasses

Agriculture

A love song to the sea

Human activity turns the eastern Mediterranean into a blue desert. Overfishing and human pollution decrease biodiversity and change the sea’s ecological balance. Our restoration efforts focus on increasing biodiversity so the sea could function as a teeming, living habitat.

Sea Restoration Projects

Song of the Sea

Sea Restoration

Natural and artificial solutions to reduce the heat inside settlements

Urban heat Islands are created by the coverage of natural land areas with concrete and asphalt. Buildings block air movement, while transportation and industry emit heat. We urgently need cooling and shading solutions, especially in light of climate change and population density.

Cooling the Urban Heat Projects

Shade!

Cooling the Urban Heat

Projects

Moving to renewable and clean energy sources

Energy Projects

Sunstroke

Past Projects

Kol Dodi

Give Gas

Human generator

From a pricy nuisance to a valuable resource

Waste Projects

Haram

What a Waste

Past Projects

Industrial Symbiosis

Simba-Compost

Biochar - Coal for the People

Source Treatment

See the forest for the trees

Tree Planting Projects

Climate Forest

Past Projects

One Tree

From destructive agriculture based on chemistry to regenerative agriculture based on biology

Agriculture Projects

Song of the Grasses

A love song to the sea

Sea Restoration Projects

Song of the Sea

Natural and artificial solutions to reduce the heat inside settlements

Cooling the Urban Heat Projects

Shade!

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