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Abu Dhabi to Build the Gulf's Largest Solar Powered Hot Water Project

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Designing from Nature at Jerusalem's Green Design Seminar

Green Design - From Theory to Practice (see preview post here), a major international architectural seminar took place this week here in Jerusalem, bringing...

Geotectura to Build Israel's Greenest Building at Tel Aviv University

Within a few years Israel's greenest building will be located at Tel Aviv University (TAU). That's the goal of Joseph Cory of Geotectura. He...

Support Bedouin treeplanting and Green education with a Tel Aviv shakedown!

Our resourceful friends at the Bedouin NGO Bustan are refusing to allow the current tension in the South of Israel affect them. Despite having to...

Sustainable Architecture Conference in Libya is Looking for Participants

Here at Green Prophet we've covered a variety of conferences, with the most recent being a seminar in Jerusalem about architecture (coming up on...

Documenting the Demise of America's Largest Community Garden

I went to see Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s documentary film, “The Garden,” at Tribeca Cinemas in Manhattan, part of docs on the shortlist for the...

Tel Aviv “City Rats” Give New Ideas to Urban Planners

"Rat tracks" made by rats in two city plans: Manhattan-style (left) and New Orleans or Jerusalem-style (right). In both plans rats cover the same...

Upcoming Green Design Conference: The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture

During these tough times in the south of Israel and Gaza, it's heartening to discover that some events are continuing, and that the determination...

Architect Elias Messinas Brings Green Architecture to Israel

Last week we wrote about Kibbutz Kramim, a cooperative in the Negev that is currently working on building a multicultural model of environmental sustainability...

Is Gianni Versace’s Refrigerated Beach One Excess Too Far in Dubai?

For those of you who hate scorching your feet on hot beach sand, the developers of one of Dubai's latest luxury hotels has the...

Israel's First Municipal Reuse Center Sounds Like The Salvation Army

Collecting everything but the kitchen sink, and well, maybe even that, Israel gets its first municipal center for "recycling and rational resource use," announces...

Audit Your Energy and Water Usage

One of the best ways to save is by auditing your consumption. Take next month's bill and set your energy/water usage as your benchmark As the...

Print With less Ink – Ecofont

How many times have you printed out a final draft and found out that it wasn't as final as you had thought? I always...

Green Prophet Interviewed in Jerusalemite

We've hit the one-year anniversary of Green Prophet, and what a year it's been! And just in time for the event, Green Prophet's Karin...

Green Your Life Like Ben Franklin

How's that journal coming along? Not always easy to keep to, eh? Try taking a page out of one of America's founding father's: Benjamin Franklin. In...

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The Myths Killing Your Fleet’s Carbon Numbers

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