Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman is a serial entrepreneur, biologist, journalist, environmental publisher, founder of Green Prophet, founder of flux, social entrepreneur and futurist. She has written articles for newspapers such as Canada's National Post, The Jerusalem Post, Discovery Network, The Huffington Post,[1] TreeHugger,[2] The Jewish Chronicle,[3] Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, CNN Money,[4] Christian Science Monitor,[5] and National Geographic Channel.

Kloosterman, a published Zoologist from the University of Toronto first applied her work at CABI Biosciences finding natural alternatives to pesticides to find solutions to conventional pesticides; she travelled to the Middle East and established Green Prophet with the goal of creating a news site where North American Jews could find out about environmental issues which affected Israel. She then decided she didn't need to limit it to just Israel, and begun covering environmental issues throughout the Middle East.[6] Kloosterman is also founder of the Internet of things company Flux IoT, based in New York City. She also founded Israel's first and now largest international cannabis technologies conference, CannaTech (although she is no longer involved in the organization), and founded Mars Farm Odyssey to create non-NASA approved solutions for farming in Space.

Her current startup, flux, developing a grow robot called Eddy is hailed by Bloomberg as "likely to disrupt" the food system.[7] Karin Kloosterman has been interviewed about her wild plan on bringing a device that will grow cannabis on Mars. Her alliance Mars Farm has been featured on Fast Company. The device employs artificial intelligence tactics from the Israeli army in order to understand the language of plants and Mother Nature.

Personal life

Kloosterman was born in Canada to Dutch and Scottish immigrants.[8] She has lived in Jaffa, Israel, and is a convert to Judaism.[9] She is married to Israeli musician Yisrael Borochov and has two children.

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References
  1. "Karin Kloosterman". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
  2. "Karin Kloosterman". treehugger.com.
  3. "The Jewish Chronicle - Green blogger takes on the Middle East". thejewishchronicle.net.
  4. "Can ICONYC find the next Waze?". CNN Money.
  5. The Christian Science Monitor. "How Israel defies drought". The Christian Science Monitor.
  6. The Jewish Week The Mideast’s Environmental ‘Prophet’
  7. Bloomberg
  8. Abigail Klein Leichman (July 15, 2015). "Gadget blooms your hydroponic garden". Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  9. Gil Tanenbaum (November 15, 2016). "Israel's Flux Is Helping Feed the World With New Tech for Home Gardens". Retrieved April 30, 2017.
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