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UN Office in Jordan Gets the Green Building Gold

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Pixel Hotel Tel Aviv Is A Little Love Shack (Photos)

The team of artists and partners also plan on converting spaces in the Jaffa Port into hotels, as well as the old water towers dotted throughout the city. I *heart* water towers and have always dreamed of living in one. Either a water tower or a lighthouse. Pixel people: please invite us Green Prophets for a stay once your fabulous eco projects come to life!

Stroller Coaster is Thrills for the Self Propelled

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Are Walnut Floors in Abu Dhabi Ungreen?

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Permaculture & Sustainability Project Takes Off In Jordan

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Free Movie: First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

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Professor Urges Regulations to Prevent Further Fatal Building Collapses in Beirut

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Woman Builds Off-Grid Earth Bag Home in Turkey for $3,761

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Foster & Partners Used to be so Green. What the Bleep Happened?

This Foster & Partner's project completed in 2004 is green and deeply respectful of its environment - why did they change their design approach?  In...

Israeli School of Sustainability Funded By Major Polluting Firms

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13 Principles of Sustainable Architecture From Nader Khalili Student

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LEED Renaissance Tower Adds Unsustainable to Towering Turkey

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Underwater City Alternative to Floating Islands?

An underground underwater city and water complex idea an alternative to floating islands? Climate change is causing sea levels to rise, so much that the...

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The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

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