Michele Chabin  At "The Jewish Week " NewsPaper Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Arad, Israel — Tu b’Shvat, the tree-planting holiday, was fast approaching, so it seemed only fitting that the project being run by the environmental education organization Sviva Israel for a group of sixth graders at the Chalamish School in this southern Israeli town would involve seeds and soil.

To prepare for this, the most recent installment of Sviva Israel’s flagship project, Eco Connection, Carmi Wisemon, the organization’s founder and director, and his wife, Tamar, director of media and technology, carried in buckets of soil and pebbles and began to spread old newspapers onto the desks.

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