Green Prophet is a news website that covers clean technology and sustainable news about the Middle East. [1] [2] It focuses mainly on topics related to the Middle East. [3] [4]
In 2012, the site was reaching almost 200,000 viewers per month. [2] By 2015, more than 20 journalists and analysts reported for Green Prophet, following social issues related to the environment, in the Middle East-North Africa region.[ citation needed]
Green Prophet was founded in 2008 by Karin Kloosterman, an environmental activist from Canada, who moved to the Middle East. [5] At first the website focused on environmental news from Israel. [6][ failed verification] Shortly thereafter it began to publish news and feature articles about environmental topics throughout the Middle East, including eco-faith, solar and wind energy, organic living, sustainable housing, [7] oil independence, science and health. Over the years Karin reports being one of the "biggest friends to the enemy states", [8] because she works from Israel, a society with freedom of speech for Zionists only, [9] she is able to write about the atrocities reported to her secretly from people in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, who might "disappear" for social, environmental action.
Green Prophet followed a social experiment in electricity use Masdar City in Abu Dhabi in 2010. [10]