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Bauhaus Design Goes Underground in Tel Aviv

Galmidi Yitzhar and the industrial designer Yaksein Eliran won first place in a design competition for a new underground train station in one of...

Qatar Mall Owner Faces Arrest for Deadly Fire

Authorities have issued arrest orders following Monday's fire that engulfed Doha's Villaggio Mall, killing 19 people. The owner of the mall and a handful...

New Toilet Business 2theloo Flourishes in Tel Aviv

Will there be less public peeing on the streets now there's a high tech public toilet in Tel Aviv? Haaretz reporter Roy Arad recently wrote...

Qatar Fire: Expatriates Furious Over Officials’ Lackadaisical Attitude

Ten minutes after a fire broke out in Doha's Villaggio Mall yesterday, an expatriate and Doha News reader Paula Rodrigues Duarte claimed that officials failed...

Saudi Prince Sues the City of Los Angeles Over Palatial Building

Saudi Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah - the son of King Abdullah and deputy Foreign Minister - has sued the city of Los Angeles....

Morocco’s Atlas Kasbah Eco-Lodge is 80% Solar-Powered

It may look like a castle, but this beautiful red-earth building is actually an 11-roomed hotel that receives 80% of its energy from the...

Turkey’s Early Hydroelectric Dams Featured in Exhibit

The first hydroelectric dam built in Ankara, Turkey's capital city, the Çubuk Dam was promoted as "Ankara's Bosphorus". A new exhibit at Istanbul's avant-garde SALT...

Iraqi Mud Architect Talks Sustainability and Corruption in the Middle East (Exclusive Interview)

Award-winning architect Salma Samar Damluji speaks to GreenProphet about her mud architecture work in Yemen and why Dubai's property development mentality is ruining the...

Egyptian Brothers Design a Clever Separator for Gulf Recyclables

Egyptian brothers Mostafa and Mohamed Nassar have designed a clever two-meter tall waste separator that aims to make recycling in Abu Dhabi and the other...

Dubai’s Underwater Hotel by Deep Ocean Technology (PICS)

When it first emerged that plans for an underwater hotel in Dubai had been revived, Arwa wrote "Dubai has more gimmicks and tacky accolades...

Save the Cave Dwellers of Cappadocia (PHOTOS)

Nothing is more earth-friendly than carving out an existence in the belly of a cave. Yet, despite its 1985 UNESCO cultural and natural World...

Investing in Ramallah’s Children Key to Sustainability

Ramallah is leading the way as the heart of Palestine's environmental awakening. City-dwellers are planting trees, creating and restoring open, natural community spaces and reviving...

Simple Wave House is a Minimalist Summer Home for Turkey

Turkish designer Gunes Peksen doesn't say much about this concept for a minimalist summer retreat, but it is definitely reminiscent of the Prefab LoftCube...

Ancient River Valley Reclaimed: Saudi’s Sweet Success Story

For hundreds of years, Saudi's Wadi Hanifah River carved out a scenic valley extending from sand dunes and agricultural land pocked with date plantations...

What Can Rio+20 Do For The Arab World?

We speak to Mohamed Abdel Raouf, a green researcher who will be attending the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) about what it could...

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Zentera responds to questions about ZQ wool, animal welfare, regenerative farming, ethical fashion and the fallout from PETA's New Zealand investigation.

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Barnacle glue could fix coral reefs, inspire new advances in building and medicine

Aalto University researchers create a protein-based adhesive inspired by barnacles and mussels that works underwater and could aid coral reef restoration.

Jaakko Torvinen finds that the next green building revolution is misfit trees

Crooked, forked and curved trees are often treated as second-class timber. They are considered less valuable, and not suitable for load bearing walls or support systems in building. If a tree trunk is not straight enough to become a saw log, it is frequently diverted into pulp production or burned for energy. Now, new research from Aalto University could help change that.

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HelloFresh’s pride prepping ad raises a bigger question: we are we still outsourcing dinner?

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Aalto University researchers create a protein-based adhesive inspired by barnacles and mussels that works underwater and could aid coral reef restoration.

Jaakko Torvinen finds that the next green building revolution is misfit trees

Crooked, forked and curved trees are often treated as second-class timber. They are considered less valuable, and not suitable for load bearing walls or support systems in building. If a tree trunk is not straight enough to become a saw log, it is frequently diverted into pulp production or burned for energy. Now, new research from Aalto University could help change that.

Black fathers live longer than non-fathers, new study

Researchers found that fatherhood was associated with lower rates of early death among Black men, while early fatherhood was linked to poorer long-term health outcomes.

Dan Zaslavsky’s energy tower dream is rising again in Iran and China

The Energy Tower idea never made the leap from drawings and engineering studies to full-scale construction. But nearly two decades after most people stopped talking about it, the concept is quietly evolving in two unexpected places: China and Iran. The concept let dreamers dream and doers do - figuring out more pleasing designs and engineering.

A visit to Amirim, Israel’s first all-vegetarian village in the Galilee

Just 15 kilometers from Tzfat there is a moshav that was founded in the late 50s that was ideologically influenced by organic, vegetarian and vegan principles. My hostess at Ohn-Bar, the tzimmer where I stayed, explained that the people of Amirim were among the pioneers of Israel’s strong vegetarian movement.
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