__NOTOC__ 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. She studied zoology at the

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. Kloosterman first worked at CABI finding natural alternatives to conventional pesticides. During that time and before she had published several papers on tracking forest health usin
indicator species such as amphibians
and the importance of Old Growth Forests 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 with the goal of creating a news site where

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could find out about environmental issues which affected

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. 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

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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-

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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

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

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'', and '' Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle''.

Personal life

She has lived in Jaffa, Israel, and is a convert to Judaism. She is married to Israeli musician

Yisrael Borochov Yisrael Borochov (born in Tel Aviv in 1950), is an Music of Israel, Israeli musician, composer, and arranger. Biography Borochov was born in Tel Aviv, and raised in Tiberias. He is a self-taught musician who plays the fretless bass guitar, doub ...

and has two children.

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External links

Flux IoT

Green Prophet
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Biography

Personal life

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