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Sukkat blessing for urbanites: All aboard the pedi-sukkah!

Sukkot is upon us, the annual holiday when Jews are commanded to live inside a sukkah - a small hut-like structure that commemorates the...

Verizon selects 12 Internet of Things startups that may change your world

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is America's #1 mobile provider and the company just announced finalists for their international Powerful Answers Award which will grant $1...

Amman Jordan’s approach to pollution is upside-down

The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) this week announced expansion of its "tidy-roofs" campaign, which kicked off last June to tackle residential buildings deemed unsightly by...

Free training for Levantine green entrepreneurs

Are you a green entrepreneur? Need to grow a business model that creates environmental and social value? Want to launch your new green service...

Extreme “grey swan” hurricanes heading to Dubai (and Tampa!)

Much of the Levant is under siege from a large dust storm right now covering Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel with parts of Cyprus...

Meet the teen eco-rapper headed to COP21!

Colorado-raised eco-activist and rapper Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a powerful voice in the youth-led climate movement. He's got a 2014 Ted Talk under his belt,...

New Jersey kids doing hydroponics? forghedaboudit!

There are green things growing in a New Jersey public school, a small shift from the traditional farming that gives the "Garden State" its...

Lebanon’s drowning in its own waste!

Want a peek into a dystopian future? This is an update on the garbage crisis in Lebanon, which is largely attributed to a corrupted...

Environmental studies creates crusaders for our planet

We know at Green Prophet that environmental sustainability and stewardship is a top issue in our world. With an ever increasing demand for solutions comes...

California builds first farm-to-table new home community

Urban farming is in the air and California is setting an example by creating the first American housing project of its kind with an...

Massive sandstorm swallows Amman’s airport!

A massive sandstorm swooped down on Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan today - a small part of an extreme weather pattern descending...

Veggies travel to Burning Man on a souped-up Airstream!

A crew of eco-minded entrepreneurs plan to mash-up modern vertical farming with decades-old hippie culture by fitting out an Airstream trailer with a mobile...

Somewhere in Jaffa, life goes on.

Photographer Nathan Miller shows another side of Arab/Jew relations in "Somewhere in Jaffa", a striking book of black and white images taken in this...

Crime doesn’t pay! Israeli antiquity thief agrees.

Two 2,000-year-old sling stones were mysteriously dropped in the courtyard of the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures (MINEC) in Be’er Sheva last week.  Also called "sling...

Dispatch from inside Masdar

As an intern at Masdar Institute, I’ve witnessed firsthand how real and possible a drastically improved world is. Masdar serves as a real-life experiment...

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He’s selling a book. But Tony Cho is really selling a new model for cities

Tony Cho is a regenerative developer and community builder focused on designing cities as living ecosystems that support human connection and ecological balance. A key figure in Miami’s urban transformation, he helped shape the Wynwood Arts District and founded the Magic City Innovation District. Influenced by an unconventional upbringing that included time in an ashram, Cho brings a spiritual lens to real estate, blending culture, community, and capital into what he calls regenerative placemaking.

Israel and the UAE find that animal conservation can be as easy as adding new watering hole

Sometimes conservation doesn’t begin with moving animals around in...

Is Britain creating a smoke-free generation by banning sales to those born after 2008?

Today, Britain is attempting something that would have seemed unthinkable way back when.

Japan wants to build a solar panel ring around the moon

Unlike solar power on Earth, which is limited by night cycles, weather, and seasons, the Moon offers something close to uninterrupted exposure to the Sun. By placing solar infrastructure in orbit or along the lunar surface, engineers could generate continuous clean energy at a scale that may exceed global electricity demand,  the Japanese scientists say.

African kids born in these Star Homes are less likely to die

What the Star Home demonstrates is something bigger: that health can be built into infrastructure. Instead of relying only on healthcare systems, communities can reduce disease at the source—through smarter design.

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He’s selling a book. But Tony Cho is really selling a new model for cities

Tony Cho is a regenerative developer and community builder focused on designing cities as living ecosystems that support human connection and ecological balance. A key figure in Miami’s urban transformation, he helped shape the Wynwood Arts District and founded the Magic City Innovation District. Influenced by an unconventional upbringing that included time in an ashram, Cho brings a spiritual lens to real estate, blending culture, community, and capital into what he calls regenerative placemaking.

Israel and the UAE find that animal conservation can be as easy as adding new watering hole

Sometimes conservation doesn’t begin with moving animals around in...

Is Britain creating a smoke-free generation by banning sales to those born after 2008?

Today, Britain is attempting something that would have seemed unthinkable way back when.

Japan wants to build a solar panel ring around the moon

Unlike solar power on Earth, which is limited by night cycles, weather, and seasons, the Moon offers something close to uninterrupted exposure to the Sun. By placing solar infrastructure in orbit or along the lunar surface, engineers could generate continuous clean energy at a scale that may exceed global electricity demand,  the Japanese scientists say.

African kids born in these Star Homes are less likely to die

What the Star Home demonstrates is something bigger: that health can be built into infrastructure. Instead of relying only on healthcare systems, communities can reduce disease at the source—through smarter design.

Art from Oman at the Venice Biennale

Oman is returning to the Venice Biennale with Zīnah, an immersive installation by artist and curator Haitham Al Busafi that transforms a traditional form of horse adornment into a large-scale sensory experience.

Korean researchers create battery from greenhouse gases

Professor Ji-Soo Jang, in collaboration with Professor Taekwang Yoon of Ajou University and Professor Hansel Kim of Chungbuk National University, has developed a novel energy device that generates electricity during the process of capturing greenhouse gases.

SunZia comes online and America’s 11B, and largest renewable project begins wind power

The impact is already being felt. California has broken its wind generation record multiple times in recent weeks as SunZia begins feeding electricity into the grid. It’s a glimpse of what a renewable-powered future could look like when large-scale infrastructure finally comes online. Can we start saying goodbye to Saudi Aramco and Arabian Gulf oil? 
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