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San Francisco’s plastic ban sends seismic wave around the world

Look West, Middle East - for a failsafe way to ween off one-use plastic bottles! Banning plastics is the best first step to eliminating...

Dubai’s new air conditioned city to woo the wealthy elite

Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai will soon play host to the world's largest shopping mall - the gargantuan Mall of the World. Comprised of 48 million square...

Hydroponic home box grows fresh food at home on water

The team behind Living Green just won $20,000 to further develop LivingBox, an off-grid, modular system of growing food in urban spaces - without soil!

skyTran’s magnetic sky pods to be tested in obscure Israeli city

Magnetic levitation technology enthusiasts around the world are waiting to see what will happen in Israel, where skyTran has teamed up with Israel Aerospace Industry (IAI) to prove the...

Saudi Arabia group makes pact with Masdar for green energy

Despite the turbulence tearing through the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have solidified their commitment to clean energy with the newly formed Framework...

PV solar bridge for breakout net-zero Falcon Island development

Some projects that cross my desk are blatantly not as "green" as their investors want us to believe, yet have many redeeming qualities. Take Al Hamra Real Estate's breakout mega-development, Falcon Island. It's...

Water Farmers get fresh with aquaponics for food in Toronto

Dream of fresh organic food? Have little land in your town or city but plenty of patience? There is a new city gardening movement...

Israeli tech brings wireless phone charging to Starbucks

Starbucks recently announced a plan to rollout access to wireless charging technology developed by Israel's Powermat -- in all stores across the United States. Powermat teamed up with...

A shipping container village to rescue “shooting” city

As part of an effort to rescue certain Israeli cities from urban decay, the Ayalim Association has built a series of 'student villages' throughout the country. The latest in the...

Israeli cities suck for air

How green are Israeli cities, really? This question might be asked by many; especially in light of its largest city,  Tel Aviv (see photo),...

Tunisia’s phosphate town is dying over our addiction to phosphorus

Today Redeyef, Tunisia, is quite a scene: it's a decrepit French colonial houses are surrounded by mountains of black phosphate sand, radioactive water lakes and...

Holoscenes incites flood of reaction to climate change

Holoscenes is a public art and performance installation that is a visual response to climate change. It's centered around three people-sized aquariums that flood and...

Solar Roadways: energy-generating roads that light up at night

What if asphalt roads around the world were replaced with modular panels that generate energy during the day and light up at night? Our...

Meditative LED bowl lamp recharges with circular motions

Shlomi Mir is one of Israel's most visionary designers whose recent tumbleweed anti-desertification project earned him a Lexus Design Award alongside giants like Toyo Ito. But its his beautiful rechargeable...

Greening your real estate purchase in the Middle East

If you are shopping around for a home in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East there are conventional places to turn to like Craig’s...

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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.

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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.

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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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Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

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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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