Until recently Environmental Laws and Regulations were not considered as important as the development of technology or expansion of cities. This has changed since the 2000 with the global concern attached to climate change. As many other cities around the world, Israel has been one of the first to create and incorporate environmental laws to companies and industries in order to obtain sustainable development and minimize the risk of pollution and environmental degradation.
Today, the list of laws extend to many new areas, with laws relating specifically to environmental concern. Regulations requiring the carrying out of environmental impact studies, anti pollution provision to prevent water and air pollution, the recycling law, laws and regulations against pollution of the sea, land planning statutes for the preservation of forested areas and others.
In this space we will be talking and developing a little more further the importance and impact of the new laws and regulations in Israel's sustainable environmental development.
Israel has a renewable energy source sector to help the
country with its energy needs. The country is known for being one of the first
to use solar power as an alternate use of energy. Along with solar power, the
country uses winds and biofuels, and electricity to power its automobiles. The
country has a group named “The Renewable Energy R&D Center” which is in
charge of finding multiple companies who are willing to work on the process of
renewable energy.
Not only is the committee in charge of looking for individual
companies, but to let the companies work with one another. The country plans on
having a 10% electric supply made by renewable energy by the year 2020. The
renewable energy sources to reach this goal that are used are wind, biomass and
biogas, as well as solar energy.
The solar panels are a huge impact on Israel's renewable energy resources. With the help of solar panels, the electricity supply of the country increases.
I
will be focusing on how Israel’s health care system can affect
sustainability. I will discuss the
aspects of health care that deals directly with reducing the earth’s pollution
so that pollution factors do not affect the health of people in Israel.
Israel’s
health care system is ensured by laws as well as national expenses. It has high standards of health service,
advanced hospitals, top quality medical research and resource. Some of the problems that Israel faces are:
an increase of solid waste caused by an increment of the population,
industries, and consumption. In order overcome this issue Israel implemented a plan
in order to shut down illegal dumps and replace them with environmentally safe
landfill, as well as implementing a recycling law. When it comes to the
scarcity and poor quality of water do to groundwater pollution cause of
chemicals like fertilizers and pesticides, Israeli has developed a
rehabilitation program to transform polluted stream into freshwater resources.
Also now Israel offers financial grant to companies which invests more on
controlling and creating pollution treatment facilities, as well as
environmental friendly technology.
Do
you know what Israel community is doing to improve our Earth Sustainability?
Well
Folks, in this blog we are going to learn more about that.
Some
Israelis citizens share a vision: Over the next five-ten years new Jewish international
and national communities such as urban kibbutzim,a community particularly in
Israel based on agriculture, rural moshavim, a type of Israeli town or
settlement,consisting
of a small separate farms, like a community of farmers,suburban co-ops, and more sustainable cooperative commune will expand
across the country.
Tourism
is one of Israel’s most important industries of its economy.
Israel
has the highest number of museums per capita in the world.
Also
Ecotourism is a growing activity in Israel nowadays. Every day tons of people
enjoy more their eco-vacations than a regular vacation.
THINK GREEN. THINK BLUE.
One of the campaign of the Hasbara fellowship.
Lotan, an old-style communal kibbutz in Israel’s desert where guests sleep in mud houses, also they run courses on sustainability. (Courtesy of Kibbutz Lotan)
I decided to choose the topic of agriculture and irrigation systems in Israel because the most important thing you need to start a country is food. If you don't have a way to get food and sustain your food production your country will have a hard time lasting. I was interested in Israel's agriculture specifically because I knew it was a dry land and hard to plant on so I was curious to see how they were able to overcome this challenge.
One way Israel deals with this problem is with their innovative drip irrigation systems. Drip irrigation is a series of pipes and tubes that flow water, with plastic emitters that drip out water directly to the plant. The use of a plastic emitter was invented in Israel by Simcha Blass who partnered with Kibbutz Harzerim to create the company Netafim and created the first efficient drip irrigation method in 1959. This invention was so important to the drip irrigation system because instead of the water coming out through tiny holes that could easily get clogged, it was released by longer and wider passageways that led to the plastic emitters. Drip irrigation is beneficial because it reduces the amount of fertilizer and water used, it minimizes weed growth and soil erosion and the type of soil is less important to how well the plant grows. One disadvantage is that it costs more money to first install it and if it isn't run properly it could waste your time, money and water. Another disadvantage is that the sun can ruin the pipes used and if the water isn't filtered right it can clog the pipes.
Netafim is a major irrigation company, who's headquarters are in Tel Aviv, Israel who offers their services to over 110 countries and yet they still manage to focus on what matters most which is sustainability. Netafim wants to help as many towns and countries as they can whether its big or small but in order to do that they make sure they focus on three key areas, environmental sustainability, social responsibility and corporate governance. Netafim knows that water is the world's most important product, but it's also the world's most rapidly depleting source. Therefore Netafim joined the CEO Water Mandate of the UN which is a unique public-private initiative designed to help businesses understand the affects their practices have on water sustainability. Netafim also shares all their information and knowledge to the public by releasing reports on how well they are sustaining the environment. Netafim also established the Netafirm Academy which helps clients, current and potential, further their knowledge of the environment and Netafim's products and stop the knowledge gap.
