Community, Ecology, Prosperity
Survey Experiences in Gimmel
Jun 22nd
I thought to share with you same hilarious things that happened while I conducted an environmental survey for Earth’s Promise in the Gimmel neighborhood in Be’er Sheva. One of the questions in the survey was if the environmental situation in Gimmel should be improved. And if yes, how would the More >
Festival Ecothiopia
Jun 2nd
Last week we celebrated the second Festival Ecothiopia in the Kalisher Community Garden, in the hearth of the Gimmel neighborhood in Be’er Sheva. This unique festival, organized by Earth’s Promise in cooperation with the Kalisher Absorption Center, combines urban environmentalism and the Ethiopian culture.
An Ethiopian band played live music, accompanied More >
Wild Flower Cooking
May 19th
The sunshine came down in to our garden before Pesach with plenty dandelions all over part B of the Kalisher Community Garden. So many edible wild flowers – time for a grand feast!
And so it was my friends, down came the wonderful master of wild edibles and spread his lovely More >
The Environmental Street Party
Apr 20th
Celebrating life without consuming it
Purim is a time of joy and craziness and a lot of this energy has been channeled in the past years into big merchandised Purim parades that leave behind stringlets of festivities, junk chunks of jubilation and empty pockets…
Here in Be’er-Sheva it’s the second year that More >
Experiencing the Community Garden
Apr 13th
I thought to share with you some of my experiences at the Kalisher Community Garden. I’ve been surprised and amazed to see how much potential there is in the community garden and how important it is for the Ethiopian community. It is a significant place both for the adults and More >
New JNF groups
Mar 30th
In March we hosted new groups of the JNF Alternative Spring Break program. In this program American college students take the time of their spring holiday to volunteer all over the south. We have been hosting these groups during the past three years. The work that these amazing students have been doing More >
Blossoming and challenges in the Kalisher Community Garden
Mar 23rd
March isn’t over yet and already so much has happened in the garden: happy things as well as things that aren’t simple at all. This morning Be’er Sheva woke up to the sound of a striking alarm and the landing of Grad rockets. Add to that the terrorist attack in More >
Picnicompost
Mar 10th
Earth’s Promise has, together with the Center for Urban Sustainability, created picnicompost, a new form to help people get started with composting. As the name already hints picnicompost is a get together where the participants receive teaching about composting, a communal composter is built and of course, we will also enjoy More >
The Be’er Sheva Compost Network
Feb 17th
We are proud to offer all of the residents of Be’er Sheva the first and unique network of Composters, which is the first of its kind anywhere in Israel. With the help of local neighbors and local communities anyone can recycle his or her leftover food. Another small contribution to More >
Sustainability course for youth movement leaders
Jan 27th
Levi writes about the…
Experience of running a practical and theoretical sustainability course for youth movement leaders
During the summer of 2010 (northern hemisphere) we worked together with a group of youth movement leaders from South American Zionist youth movements.
The group consisted of 20 young youth leaders, mainly from Brazil and a More >
