Israel’s solar, water and other cleantech companies showcased their products this week at an exhibition in Tel Aviv. (Image via Israel Export Institute) In his keynote address at the Cleantech 2010 Expo in Tel Aviv yesterday, the governor of Israel’s…
Jonathan Gilben, co-founder of GoEco, talks about his passion for eco-tourism. (Jonathan pictured at the center of this photograph and in the video clip below.) A few weeks ago we wrote about GoEco, an organization founded by Jonathan Gilben and…
Ira wrote about the Palestinian-Israeli wind power cooperation deal last week. Karin updates us with details on how Brothers Engineering Group plans on rolling out new business with Israel Wind Energy. A path toward peace may be blowing in the…
Treat all five of your senses with a Bio-Tour of organic agriculture at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu. [image via: andersbrett] With the summer in full swing (and heat, and humidity), we have featured a variety of eco-tourism options in the Middle…
When we think of the environment today, the West looks like the clear leader. But did you know that some of the world’s most important discoveries originated in the Middle East? The Middle East, perhaps because of its challenging environment,…
An Australian family of five goes on a 5-month worldwide eco-tour. Their adventure begins at Kibbutz Lotan in Israel as GoEco volunteers for 5 weeks. Read about the Wood-Auster family experience, told by dad Arron. My wife Amy and I…
Barn owls as biological control. Arab farmers in the Levant use nesting boxes to encourage the owls to move in. This means much less pesticide to control rodents. Known for his work with birds and other feathery friends Prof. Yossi…
Engineering students from Israel’s Technion have developed an anaerobic digester to help solve fuel and pollution problems in Nepal. Inspired by a lecture from Bernard Amadei, a US engineer from Colombia University who founded Engineers Without Borders, a group of…
A kibbutz company in Israel leases 100 acres of land off of Bedouins in the Negev Desert to plant new solar panel project. Image via dlisbona Israel’s Bedouin population may not be the most impoverished among the Bedouin clans in…
Once you could lose your life if you fell in. Rowing in cleaner waters? The Yarkon River has been upgraded – so they say! This installment of articles on Israel’s coastal waterways, deals with the Yarkon River, one of the…
