Environment

A Israeli festival on Facebook is trying to change the country's attitude towards the environment with a competition that awards winners based on the most creative individual solutions to environmental issues.

The Israeli military and the Israel Nature and National Parks Authority are cooperating on a new project that will teach soldiers how to preserve nature while on duty. Every paratrooper will get a pocket guide, teaching them how to collect garbage left around in national parks; which animals are protected and how to deal with civilians stealing endangered plants.

Taxibot Dispatch Towing system is the world’s first tugboat-like way to tow both wide and narrow body commercial airplanes to taxi to and from the gate and the runway without the use of their jet engines.

Walkathon delegations from England, France and Australia come to Israel after enlisting sponsors to donate to Israeli environmental organization KKL-JNF.This time, a delegation from UK is visiting Israel and spending a week hiking in the Negev and the Arava, under the banner “Walk for Water”.

Israel has been dealing with desertification and water scarcity for the past few decades, and KKL-JNF has acquired a great amount of experience with these issues. These problems are universal and are faced by other countries around the world, including Argentina.

In the largest project of its kind in the world and the biggest ever undertaken by an Israeli firm, 30,000 dairy cows are being flown to Vietnam to supply 300 million liters of milk annually as part of a $500 million dairy farm project there.

A safari in Israel and a Palestinian Zoo in the West Bank are cooperating to get a hippopotamus out of his depression and loneliness, by fixing him up with a female companion.

Israel and Germany have agreed on a combined project for rehabilitating Lake Victoria in Kenya, which suffers from pollution and serious ecological problems.

Butterflies are arriving in great colorful swarms to Israel's Mediterranean city of Bat Yam, attracted to 150,000 new plants brought to town by the chief municipal landscaper, Eliav Hatuka. The beautiful insects are an indication of a healthy environment, since they avoid polluted places.

Earlier this month the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation gave its support for a proposed law designed to clean up polluted land and prevent future ground pollution. This bill may lead to a framework that would be the first of its kind providing financial incentives to expedite the clean-up of polluted sites.

Award winning Israeli company Solaris Synergy has designed solar energy grids that can float on water, reducing energy production costs, and preventing water loss. The start-up has a working prototype on the roof of its headquarters and is due to install a pilot project in 2011 under the auspices of Mekorot, Israel's water authority.

In countries where water demand is high but resource is low, every drop counts. An Israeli company have strived to prevent water leaks by perfecting manual methods of water measuring. Their Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a two-pound drone plane that can travel 900 feet above ground and detect water leaks.

Only 0.74 percent of the world's water is considered safe for drinking, and some two billion people either lack access to sufficient quantities of water or are supplied with unsafe water. An Israeli company is working towards making a change, by providing safe and innovative water products.

Israel strives to be the leader in creative energy, which includes green building. The WAWA company was established for the same reason, but with a new innovative vision for a wider solution to deal with all that green building demands.

A team of Israeli scientist has developed the worlds’ first toothpaste for Kangaroos with deadly gum disease.