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Don't Use a Sponge

Instead of using synthetic sponges for your shower and dishes use a luffa! Sponges tend to collect bacteria and for heath reasons should be...

Reuse Your Wine Bottles

There are some very beautiful wine bottles around and it seems a terrible shame to just throw them away. Here are a few ideas...

Tour of Tel Aviv with Cities of Tomorrow Conference

(Kiryat Sefer resident and activist Miri Kupermintz on the park site. All photos by Daniella Cheslow) A tour of Tel Aviv organized last week by...

Burj Dubai and the Tower of Babel

Few building projects have received as much attention and fanfare as Dubai's Burj Dubai 800 + meter skyscraper, that including its top tower will...

Dubai’s artificial World Islands killing corals pushing nature out of the sea

Dubai's mega developmental projects, including several artificial islands complexes, are beginning to cause a number of environmental concerns. The artificial islands, which when completed will...

Masdar City In Abu Dhabi Could Be Practical Community Innovation, Or Expensive Showcase

Masdar City, a unique and innovative commercial and residential project underway in Abu Dhabi, is being promoted as the first carbon free community in...

Futuristic Dubai Vertical Farm Uses Seawater to Sustain Crops

You have to hand it to those United Arab Emirates Gulf states. Their futuristic projects are simply something out of a popular science fiction...

Urban Planning Conference at Tel Aviv University

If you've been wondering about the skyscrapers threatening to carve up Tel Aviv, or about the atrociously planned residential towers of Beer Sheva (see...

Play With the Cross-Breeze

Summer can be brutal in the Middle East, and not everywhere has EWA Technologies' Air Conditioning. But no worries. Many homes DO have built...

Coming Soon: A Wall of Skyscrapers Between Tel Aviv and Jaffa?

A year after a municipal planning committee decided to put plans for a row of skyscrapers near Jaffa on hold, the plans are back...

Emirate-Built Sanaya Amman Towers To Be Jordan's Tallest and First "Green" Building

Jordan's capital city, Amman, will soon have a spectacular landmark: the Sanaya Twin Towers, which will tower more than 200 meters over the...

Israeli University Honors Environmental Sculptor Dani Karavan

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, one of Israel's finest academic institutions, and one in which its environmental and alternative energy projects have received...

Jordan Real Estate Conference Stresses Green Construction Methods To Arab World

"Jordan needs to develop sustainable or 'green' construction practices based on traditional concepts with modern material and practices," said Jordan's Princess Sumaya, president...

England Authorities Look to Mediterranean White Buildings To Help Keep Cool

A week ago England's Department of Health published practical recommendations to prepare for a potential heatwave which is also the central theme of their...

Going On A Picnic to Tel Aviv’s Garbage Mountain

(Posing for a photo in front of Tel Aviv's old garbage dump, Hiriya, the rectum of Tel Aviv.) That backdrop of the photo where Green...

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Xcimer is the Denver-based startup that could put Saudi Arabia out of business

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Xcimer is the Denver-based startup that could put Saudi Arabia out of business

An American company can collapse OPEC if they can prove their approach to unlimited energy works.

The Saudi Startup Turning Desalination’s Toxic Waste Into Its Own Disinfectant

For millennia, the Middle East's water crisis seemed an immutable fact of geography — a region defined as much by what it lacked as by what lay beneath its sands. Today, a convergence of plummeting solar costs, advancing membrane technology, and hard-won engineering expertise is rewriting that story.

Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.
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