Below are details of the implementation projects of the eighth year of Heschel Environmental Fellows - 2006/7

Yotam Avizohar           Empowering Local Activists to Promote Sustainable Transport
Guidebook, training and consultation for local groups around the country to promote bikes, buses and other forms of sustainable transport in their locales.

Ariel Babcyk                Planning a Model Sustainable Multi-Cultural Neighborhood (Kiryat Shalom, South Tel Aviv)
Working from the Municipal Architects office of Tel Aviv –planning and implementing a cultural-spatial urban model for sustainability in a lower-class neighborhood.

Ayelet Bargur               Establishing a Fund To Support Social-Environmental Documentary Films
Creating the business model, developing the criteria, and raising the resources for a fund that would provide support for documentary film productions on social environmental issues.

Kifah Daghash              Establishing An Arab Eco-Village in the Galilee
Recruiting the founding group of Arab citizens interested in organic and other eco-sensitive lifestyles, navigating the country's planning institutions, weighing, choosing and promoting the best alternative for creating such a settlement.

Shachar Dolev              Replacing the GDP - Alternative Growth Index for Progress and Well-Being
Together with Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, developing an index that integrates social and environmental parameters along with economic ones for the use of educating public opinion and policy formulation. 

Valerie Pohoryles         Saving the Coastal Aquifer: Centralizing Water Treatment and Systemic Pollution Prevention to Safeguard Drinking Water Sources
Creating an integrated pollution detection and prevention system, as well as centralized water purification for the local authorities served by the Coastal Aquifer, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health.

Guy Rilov                     Changing People's Consumption Habits around Plastic Bags
Exploring and developing alternatives to the ubiquitous plastic bags and their consumption by the billions—paper, biodegradable, multi-use totes, as well as the economic instruments and incentives to promote their adoption.

Haim Rivlin                   Television News Series on the Climate Crisis
Bringing the news of the climate crisis into the mainstream media through a well-researched series on Channel 2, both the global threats and scenarios, and the local implications and policy responses.

Daniella Rob                 Engaging and Training Citizens for Public Participation on the Municipal Level
A course for local residents to give them the tools to actively and reflectively participate in urban planning and other municipal decision making processes.

Shachar Sadeh             Establishing a Framework for Planning for the Eventual Resettlement of Evacuees from the Territories
Recruiting a high-level steering committee of professionals that can help research and draft a detailed plan that will guide future processes of resettlement of settlers from evacuated settlements in the territories.

Yaron Shapira              Promoting Sustainability Among Israeli Secondary Students Pilot Project
Developing and administering an educational module geared to high school students about global warming and the necessary behavior and policy changes to address the crisis.

Zohar Shkalim              "The Polluter Pays: - Increasing Economic Enforcement of Environmental Crimes in the Ministry of the Environment
Developing the legal and economic tools in the Ministry of the Environment to not only bring polluters and other environmental perpetrators to justice in the criminal sense, but to have them pay complete compensation and remediation.

Ya'akov Zilbershtain     Community Gardens – The Family Garden as a Worldview
Developing and promoting a model of family-community organic gardens, in the Kfar Hayarok Center and elsewhere in Ramat Hasharon, as a tool for developing local environmental awareness and empowerment.