Karin Kloosterman

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, and is the founder and editor of the sustainable news site Green Prophet.

Kloosterman first worked at CABI finding natural alternatives to conventional pesticides. During that time and before she published several papers on tracking forest health using indicator species such as amphibians[3] 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.[2] She travelled to the Middle East and established the blog Green Prophet about environmental issues which affected Israel, having identified what she described as a "huge black hole" in reporting on such issues in the country.[4] She then decided she didn't need to limit it to just Israel, and begun covering environmental issues throughout the Middle East.[5]

Kloosterman is co-founder of the Internet of things company Flux IoT, based in New York City.[6] She also organized Israel's first international cannabis technologies conference, CannaTech, in 2015[7] and founded Mars Farm Odyssey to create non-NASA approved solutions for farming in outer space.[8][9]

Flux IoT, developing a grow robot called Eddy, was hailed by Bloomberg News in 2017 as "likely to disrupt" the food system.[6] In 2017, her alliance Mars Farm was featured in Fast Company.[8] In 2019, Kloosterman was interviewed about her plan for a device that will grow cannabis on Mars.[9]

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

Personal life

She lives in Jaffa, Israel, and is a convert to Judaism.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Danan, Deborah (June 14, 2018). "She joined the tribe and thrived". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.
  2. ^ a b Klein Leichman, Abigail (July 15, 2015). "Gadget blooms your hydroponic garden". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  3. ^ Bellocq, M., Isabel; Kloosterman, Karin; Smith, Sandy M. (2000). "The diet of coexisting species of amphibians in Canadian jack pine forests". The Herpetological Journal. 10 (2): 63–68.
  4. ^ Jacobs, Justin (July 14, 2010). "Green blogger takes on the Middle East". Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.
  5. ^ Eglash, Ruth (August 16, 2011). "The Mideast's Environmental 'Prophet'". The Jewish Week. Archived from the original on 2017-08-28.
  6. ^ a b Ackerman, Gwen (March 9, 2017). "Military-Grade Tech to monitor eggplants rather than explosives". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2017-04-06.
  7. ^ Klein Leichman, Abigail (2015-02-11). "Israel's first Canna Tech event draws a crowd". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved 2025-07-23.
  8. ^ a b Peters, Adele (January 4, 2017). "These Futurists And Urban Farmers Are Figuring Out How To Farm On Mars". Fast Company.
  9. ^ a b Hay, Mark (April 19, 2019). "What Would it Be Like to Get High on Mars?". Vice.
  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.
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