The Jaffa Slope is considered one of the largest recycling projects in Israel’s history. A 50-acre, 50-foot high garbage mountain on the shores of Jaffa was converted into a beautiful park, and the 1.3 million tons of garbage were recycled and reused to build the park's facilities. The Jaffa Ridge includes bicycle routes, playgrounds, a fishing deck and observation points and was inaugurated in 2009. With its completion, the project re-opens the beautiful shores of the Mediterranean to the residents of Jaffa.

Haifa, Israel's third largest city, will celebrate this Christmas in an eco-friendly fashion with the unveiling of a new 38-foot Christmas tree made entirely of recycled water bottles and other plastic objects donated by its residents and on display in the city's center.

WWOOF, an exciting (and free) voluntourism program is now available for those looking for an eco-friendly travel experience in Israel.

The Carmel Tunnel, a new traffic route and the longest of its kind in Israel, will open under strict eco-friendly standards next month in Haifa, Israel's chief port and third-largest city.

The Bible mentions the date as one of the original seven species of the Holy Land: “A land of wheat and barley, vines and fig-trees and pomegranates, a land of olive-trees and honey.”

This month El Al Airlines and the Jewish National Fund (JNF) have announced a joint tree-planting program in Israel.

At Moshav Amirim, visitors are invited to experience a world built on organic, environmentalist, and vegetarian principles.

Contractors looking to build in Tel Aviv will have to adhere to their new eco-friendly regulations. Under the new rules, building permits will be issued only after they receive the green (pun unintended) light from an environmental expert.

For those travelers wishing to blend in with nature, there is nothing like Succah in the Desert— a new eco-friendly retreat in Israel offering an escape into desert paradise.

An increasingly prevalent trend with travelers, voluntourism offers the opportunity to get away and give back. A popular vacation with voluntourists is a trip to the Kibbutz Lotan in southern Israel’s Arava Valley.