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GreenRoad and 9 Israel-Related Headlines, Week of June 15, 2010

Lisa Damast
By Lisa Damast
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Natural gas in Israel, desalination plants, a new Palestinian-Israeli wind venture and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech and the environment. Image via GreenRoad.

During the week of June 15, 2010, GreenRoad, which offers solutions for improved driving, won an award from Frost & Sullivan for its excellence in green technology. Israel continues to be considered a model for alternative energy and an Israeli professor has developed potato batteries that have the potential to provide cheap power. For these stories and more, see this week’s 9 headlines below.

General

Still hope for Turkish-Israeli business

Israeli businesses look East to offset weak Western markets

Discovery of Natural Gas in Israel is a World-class Game Changer

Israel a Model for Alternative Energy

Water

Israel to build world’s biggest desalination plants news

Auto Industry

GreenRoad Wins 2010 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for Technology Innovation and Green Excellence

Better Place launches battery switching system for EVs

Wind

New Wind Venture Seen as Bridge of Peace Across the Green Line

In development

Israeli-developed boiled potato batteries may provide cheap power

Missed last week’s headlines edition? Catch up on clean rivers, youth projects and more.

Lisa Damast
Lisa Damasthttp://www.israelinnovation20.com/
Lisa Damast is an online marketing consultant by day and blogger of Israel technology by night. Her blog, Israel Innovation 2.0, provides news and analysis of Israeli technology companies in the enterprise software, Web 2.0 and cleantech sectors. Lisa is also a co-organizer of the Jerusalem Business Networking Forum (JBNF). JBNF helps facilitate online and offline networking among business professionals in Jerusalem, including in the cleantech industry. Lisa made aliyah in August 2007 after receiving a degree in Communication Studies from Boston University in May 2007. Lisa can be reached at lisa (at) greenprophet (dot) com.

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