Karin Kloosterman

[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.