__NOTOC__ Karin Kloosterman is a serial entrepreneur, biologist, journalist, environmental publisher, founder of

Green Prophet Green Prophet is a news website that covers clean technology and sustainable news about the Middle East.

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

, and is the founder and editor of the sustainable news site

Green Prophet Green Prophet is a news website that covers clean technology and sustainable news about the Middle East.

. Kloosterman first worked at

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finding natural alternatives to conventional pesticides. During that time and before she published several papers on tracking forest health using

indicator species A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment. The most common indicator species are animals. For example, copepods and other sma ...

such as

amphibian Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniote, anamniotic, tetrapod, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class (biology), class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all Tetrapod, tetrapods, but excl ...

s and the importance of

old-growth forests An old-growth forest or primary forest is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without Disturbance (ecology), disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological features. The Food and Agriculture Organizati ...

for forest health. She left science because she said it didn't leave space for intuition and even though research institutions welcomed women the entire approach of biology was masculine and based on antiquated constructs that didn't leave room for intuition. She travelled to the Middle East and established the blog Green Prophet about

environmental issues Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems. Further, these issues can be caused by humans (human impact on the environment) or they can be natural. These issues are considered serious when the ecosystem cannot recov ...

which affected

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, having identified what she described as a "huge black hole" in reporting on such issues in the country. She then decided she didn't need to limit it to just Israel, and begun covering environmental issues throughout the

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. Kloosterman is co-founder of the

Internet of things Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The IoT encompasse ...

company Flux IoT, based in New York City. She also organized Israel's first international cannabis technologies conference, CannaTech, in 2015 and founded Mars Farm Odyssey to create non-

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approved solutions for farming in outer space. Flux IoT, developing a grow robot called Eddy, was hailed by

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in 2017 as "likely to disrupt" the

food system The term food system describes the interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition, food, health, community development, and agriculture. A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growi ...

. In 2017, her alliance Mars Farm was featured in ''

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''. In 2019, Kloosterman was interviewed about her plan for a device that will grow cannabis on Mars. She has written articles for publications such as Canada's ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Personal life

She lives in Jaffa, Israel, and is a convert to Judaism.

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Flux IoT

Green Prophet
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Biography

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