Vir­tu­al­ly unde­vel­oped one hun­dred years ago, Israel, the promised ​“land of milk and hon­ey,” is in eco­log­i­cal dis­ar­ray. In this grip­ping book, Alon Tal pro­vides – for the first time ever – a his­to­ry of envi­ron­men­tal­ism in Israel, inter­view­ing hun­dreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis­sion to keep the coun­try’s remark­able devel­op­ment sus­tain­able amid a cen­tu­ry of polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al turmoil.