Karin Kloosterman

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Karin Kloosterman is a serial entrepreneur, biologist, journalist, environmental publisher, founder of Green Prophet, co-founder of Flux IoT, social entrepreneur and futurist.

Biography

Kloosterman was born in Canada to Dutch and Scottish immigrants.[1][2]

She studied zoology at the University of Toronto.

Kloosterman first worked at CABI finding natural alternatives to conventional pesticides.[2] She travelled to the Middle East and established the blog Green Prophet with the goal of creating a news site where North American Jews could find out about environmental issues which affected Israel.[3] She then decided she didn't need to limit it to just Israel, and begun covering environmental issues throughout the Middle East.[4]

Kloosterman is co-founder of the Internet of things company Flux IoT, based in New York City.[5] She also founded Israel's first and now largest international cannabis technologies conference, CannaTech (although she is no longer involved in the organization),[6] and founded Mars Farm Odyssey to create non-NASA approved solutions for farming in outer space.[7][8]

Flux IoT, developing a grow robot called Eddy, was hailed by Bloomberg News in 2017 as "likely to disrupt" the food system.[5][9] In 2017, her alliance Mars Farm was featured in Fast Company.[7] In 2019, Kloosterman was interviewed about her plan for a device that will grow cannabis on Mars.[8]

She has written articles for publications such as Canada's National Post,[10] The Jerusalem Post,[11] HuffPost,[12] TreeHugger,[13] and Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.[14]

Personal life

She has lived in Jaffa, Israel, and is a convert to Judaism.[1][15] She is married to Israeli musician Yisrael Borochov and has two children.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Danan, Deborah (June 14, 2018). "She Joined the Tribe and Thrived". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.
  2. ^ a b Abigail Klein Leichman (July 15, 2015). "Gadget blooms your hydroponic garden". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  3. ^ Jacobs, Justin (July 14, 2010). "Green blogger takes on the Middle East". Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.
  4. ^ Eglash, Ruth (August 16, 2011). "The Mideast's Environmental 'Prophet'". The Jewish Week.
  5. ^ a b Ackerman, Gwen (March 9, 2017). "Military-Grade Tech to Monitor Eggplants Rather Than Explosives". bloomberg.com.
  6. ^ Arieli, Inbal (January 20, 2017). "Women powering Israeli Innovation: Karin Kloosterman". blog.startupnationcentral.org. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  7. ^ a b Peters, Adele (January 4, 2017). "These Futurists And Urban Farmers Are Figuring Out How To Farm On Mars". Fast Company.
  8. ^ a b Hay, Mark (April 19, 2019). "What Would it Be Like to Get High on Mars?". Vice.
  9. ^ Kloosterman, Karin (March 14, 2017). "How to get your startup featured on Bloomberg (we did it!)". linkedin.com. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  10. ^ Kloosterman, Karin (October 14, 2006). "Women's hockey in the holy land: Thornhill dynamo hopes to shepherd Israeli upstarts to 2010 Olympics in B.C.". National Post. p. TO14.
  11. ^ Kloosterman, Karin (November 13, 2009). "On the wings of an albatross". The Jerusalem Post.
  12. ^ "Karin Kloosterman". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  13. ^ "Karin Kloosterman". TreeHugger. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  14. ^ "Karin Kloosterman". Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  15. ^ Tanenbaum, Gil (November 15, 2016). "Israel's Flux Is Helping Feed the World With New Tech for Home Gardens". Jewish Business News. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

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