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    Community Gardens

    Earth's Promise utilizes community gardens as a tool to develop communal, agricultural and ecological systems. They produce fresh and available produce while providing opportunities for local residents. By working the earth close to their homes, local residents attain satisfaction and meaning while improving our local environment, and enjoying fresh produce. Read more About Us!
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    Ecothiopia

    Ecothiopia is a yearly festival that gives a stage to the tradition and culture of Ethiopia and ecological subjects. The Festival takes place in partnership with the Kalisher Absorption Center. The festival celebrates hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants. The festival includes performances by Ethiopian performers, ecology and art booths, activities for children and tours in the garden.
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    Volunteers

    Earth's Promise is a home to groups of volunteers and individuals from Israel and around the world who are interested to contribute their time and talents to work cooperatively in the Kalisher Community Garden. Come work with the Ethiopian immigrants in a variety of activities that contribute to the general appearance and productivity of the garden. Volunteer!
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Tu b’Shvat at the Rambam synagogue

Feb 22nd

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January 2010

One of the Earth’s Promise events related to Tu b’Shvat 2010 was the planting activity at the Rambam synagogue. Together with families from the synagogue we planted Israeli trees, e.g. olive trees, on the yard of the synagogue. Some enthusiastic boys digged the ground very diligently and kept track of the exact amount More >

be'er sheva, ecology, education, Israel, negev
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Tu b’Shvat – Kalisher Community Garden

Feb 21st

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January 2010

This year Earth’s promise celebrated the holiday of Tu b’Shvat – the holiday that symbolizes the connection of an Israeli to the land and to the homeland – by planting trees in the Kalisher Community Garden.

Residents of the neighborhood and children from the Kalisher Absorption Center that participated More >

be'er sheva, community garden, ecology, education, ethiopian, immigrants, Israel, negev
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A New Twist to Passover Cleaning

Apr 1st

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Its the same every year. You turn the house upside down looking for any trace of unleavened bread, stopping at nothing until you’ve found and burned every last crumb. Or so you tell yourself. The truth is you always miss a few corners and unless your kids have a penchant More >

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Spring Planting

Apr 1st

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Earth’s Promise had a great day planting our spring/summer vegetables in the community garden. We sowed 3 different varieties of tomatoes (including cherry tomatoes), 3 different varieties of peppers (hot included), eggplant, squash, pumpkin, zucchini, okra, basil, and watermelon.

Check out the video now! Yes now. Why not? Perhaps you’ll learn More >

be'er sheva, community garden, ecology, negev, urban agriculture
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Following Parisian track, Tel Aviv plans citywide bike rental points

Jul 15th

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Haaretz | 15-7-2008 | By Zafrir Rinat

Tel Aviv is planning on adopting Paris’ highly successful bicycle rental system. The Tel Aviv municipality published a tender for operating a series of rental stations around the city, and the winner should be chosen in the next few weeks.

The Paris system has been in More >

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Israeli company to build sea wave power plants in China

Jul 10th

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Israel 21c | 10-7-2008 | Israel21c Staff

Israeli company S.D.E. Energy, developer of an innovative technology for generating electricity from sea waves, has signed an agreement for selling sea wave power plants in China for an undisclosed sum.

Construction of the power plants will be financed by investors from Hong Kong and China. More >

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