- Greenheart
  
  Greenheart is a movement promoting environmentally sustainable principles and practices, personal evolution and social transformation.
- Casita Verde
  
  Situated in a beautiful valley near the village of San Jose in Ibiza, La Casita Verde is a model ecological centre that is operated by volunteers and open to the public on Sundays.
- Greenheart Music
  
  GreenHeartMusic is a music platform based in Ibiza, Spain. Presenting artists of different influences who express their connections to nature through their music.
- Guía Verde a Ibiza y Formentera
  
  A bi-lingual directory to Ibiza and Formentera of local groups, businesses and services that offer or use environmentally friendly practices.
- QL Studio › Websites Made Easy
  
  Quinta Linda is a low-impact living space and website design studio based in Portugal.
- Greenheart Resonancia
  
  An educational and fun programme of practical, stimulating experiences discovering sustainable and respectful habits in order to face the realities of climate change.
- Green Ibiza Tours
  
  Our Green Ibiza Tours provide responsible tourism holidays in Ibiza offering a full programme of eco activities and nature happenings.
- Greenheart Traveler
  
  With the aim of promoting the Greenheart message around the world, travelling members of the rapidly growing Greenheart family will write blogs and add photos of their travels.
- Ibiza Gold
  
  The Greenheart Carob project plans to rejuvenate an important traditional economic activity, as well as motivating many local land owners.
- Fundación por el Futuro
- Tienda Greenheart
  
  At the Greenheart Shop you can find out about responsible consumption and ecological happenings in Ibiza. Featuring our very own Greenheart clothing range made from ecological fabrics and with fair trade considerations.

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Carob Tree

Carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua, Caesalpiniaceae)

Ibicencan: garrover (pod: garrova)

Although the carob tree is a native to the Eastern Mediterranean, today Spain produces more than a third of all the carob globally produced. However, the fruits of the Ibicenco trees–about a million trees–are hardly used, except occasionally as food for pigs. The wood is used in construction and for tools. The seeds were used in ancient times to weigh jewels (the karat).

The carob pods contain a great amount of sugar. The fresh pods have laxative properties whereas the dried powder on the contrary has antidiarrhaetic effests.

A big project of the Casita Verde is the production of carob syrup in order to make use of the great potential that this island has. The residues of the pods after making the syrup are used as a fertilizer, for example on the medicinal plants. The ideal of ecological farming and gardening projects is the absence of rubbish with everything being part of a circulation. Let us see if we can help one another to achieve this idealistic goal.

In South America a similar syrup is produced from the pods of a tree that is known as algarrobo (Prosopis, Fabaceae), the Spanish name for the carob tree.

Name of the tree in other languages:

Arabic: خروب

Bask: marikoltze

Catalan: garrofer

Dutch: johannesbroodboom

English: carob tree

Esperanto: karobarbo

Finnish: johanneksenleipäpuu

French: caroubier

Galician: alfarrobeira

German: Johannisbrotbaum

Greek: χαρουπιά