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“Dubai’s Skyscrapers are Cheap” and “Anonymous” says Architect Franky Gehry

Frank Gehry, considered one of the world's most important architects, said in a recent Foreign Policy interview that its "cheap" skyscrapers makes Dubai look...

Byblos, the ‘Best Arab Tourist City’ in Lebanon Offers Lessons in Greening too

Byblos, the world's oldest continuously inhabited city in Lebanon has been named the Arab world's best tourist city by the United Nations World Tourism...

Beirut Terraces Make Sustainable Vertical Villages for Lebanon City

As part of a larger master plan to rejuvenate the downtown Beirut area, Swiss Architects Herzog & De Meuron have designed "The Terraces," a...

Burj Khalifa on Google Street View

Google's street view has taken us from the streets of Tel Aviv to the Grand Canyon and even under the sea, and now this...

Solar-Powered Water Drop Building Produces Drinking Water from Dubai Air

Orlando De Urrutia has designed what he says is the world's first building to get its water from the air. Called the Water Building...

IKEA and UN Unveil Prefab Solar-Powered Refugee Shelters

The ongoing Syrian conflict has put refugees at their highest number since 1994 - a terrible year for the people of Rwanda and Yugoslavia;...

Refutrees Scratches Eco and Social Itches with Refugee Projects

Today is World Refugee Day. Some good news for a change: Refutrees is a new non-profit that's turning the traditional aid-centric model of development...

Dubai Green Store Dubbed “World’s Most Sustainable Building”

Gundeep Singh used to own a yacht and a porsche before he turned over a green leaf to open what is now known as...

Taksim Redux? Lebanese Protest Over Loss of Beirut’s Ancient Jesuit Garden Park

In a Middle Eastern city with paltry green space, residents gather to object to new development that will destroy one of their few public...

Environmental Protests of the Middle East Show Eco Awareness in Arab World

During the last six years, the words energy security, water security, and food security could be found a lot in the Arab media. Since...

Saudi Arabia Sinks $26 Billion in Green Buildings

Saudi Arabian investment in 76 new environmentally savvy construction projects is estimated to exceed $26 billion, according to Faisal Al-Fadl, Secretary General of the...

Jordan’s Grassroots Efforts to Manage Municipal Trash

The city of Amman in Jordan where I live is experiencing a deteriorating level of municipal services, most notably in garbage collection and public...

Egypt Gets Testy Over Ethiopia’s Giant Renaissance Dam

As Ethiopia continues with its plans to build the Grand Renaissance Dam in order to meet the country's burgeoning energy shortfall, Egypt is starting...

Dubai Sustainability City Phase 2 Awarded to Baharash Architecture

Diamond Developers selected Baharash Architecture to plan the second of four phases of Dubai Sustainable City - a 46 hectare, 500 villa eco-development slated...

Zaha Hadid Wins Bid for Futuristic Metro Station in Saudi Arabia

Public transportation is not wildly popular in Saudi Arabia since fuel is so cheap and many households have private drivers to escort them from...

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The Space Orchestra, and the search for extraterrestrial life, to eclipse celebration

The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

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The Space Orchestra, and the search for extraterrestrial life, to eclipse celebration

The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.

Is the manosphere selling a testosterone crisis? Pentagon’s new “Low T” policy sparks debate

The Pentagon's decision to introduce annual testosterone testing for U.S. military personnel over 30 has sparked debate among doctors and public health experts. Researchers warn that social media influencers are turning normal signs of ageing into a "Low T" crisis, encouraging unnecessary hormone testing and supplementation while blurring the line between evidence-based medicine and marketing.
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