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Plastic Eco-Brick Proposal Wins Dubai Resident a UN Citizen Ambassadorship

 Dubai-based Jonathan Eric Defante plastic "eco-brick" pitch won him a UN Citizen Ambassadorship.  Jonathan Eric Defante submitted his "One Bottle, One Life" YouTube pitch to...

Tel Aviv Lifeguard Shacks To Become Tiny Pixel Hotels

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It’s Official: Pollution Contributes to Tornadoes and Hailstorms

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Masdar Aims to Become the Guru of Sustainable Building Materials

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Technion & Cornell Win Historic Bid to Build a Net-Zero Energy Tech Hub in NYC

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Ramot Polin: Crazy Israeli Architecture Gone Terribly Wrong

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Yaniv Pardo’s Twisting Tower for Netanya in Israel

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Amman’s New Mega-Mall is Antithesis of Sustainable Development

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Swanky New Train Will Get Pax From Jeddah to Makkah in Under 30 Minutes

The Haramain High Speed Rail Project (HHR) in Saudi Arabia recently broke ground, which bodes well for the future of the Kingdom's environmental/energy footprint.  Phase...

Understanding Cairo Beyond the Complaints

Dirty, polluted, and badly managed: Understanding Cairo, The Logic of a City Out of Control goes beyond the usual rhetoric “The Egyptian middle classes and...

Construction of Israel’s First LEED Platinum EcoBuilding by Geotectura Begins

We're so thrilled to announce that Geotectura has finally broken ground on Israel's very first LEED Platinum Building. We've been waiting for this happy moment...

Can Knowledge Save Us From Climate Change?

At the ongoing Eye on Earth summit in Abu Dhabi, there has been a lot of talk about sharing environmental data. But we question...

Sustainable Architecture Saudi Style: King Abdullah Financial District

Although the massive 3,300,000 sq m King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh will feature a variety of "green" initiatives, this is definitely sustainable architecture...

Sewage Flows Where Pilgrims Once Trod

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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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