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Human Fertilization Starts at the Bottom

Susan Kraemer - February 17, 2011

A banal for-profit product for the Third World may revolutionize the treatment of human waste In the Middle East and other regions with increasing water...

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Replacing Depleting Oil Will Shortly Outpace Fresh Demand

Susan Kraemer - February 19, 2011

Peak oil poses biggest threat to peak oil, Wikileaks cable shows You think a population approaching seven billion puts pressure on oil supplies? Soon, just...

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Saudi Citizens Release Documentary Criticising Lack of Flood Protection

Arwa Aburawa - February 15, 2011

The short documentary highlights the lack of adequate flood protection in Saudi, after floods killed four this winter and left over 120 people dead...

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Jordan Teams With Spanish Firm To Cool Homes With The Sun

Tafline Laylin - February 15, 2011

The Jordanian Renewable Energy Society is adding solar-cooling to their Eco-House project. While Jordanians argue over whether enviro Queen Rania is entitled to throw lavish...

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Dubai Utility Doubles Business Electricity Rates in Three Years

Susan Kraemer - February 16, 2011

You wouldn't want to be responsible for keeping the lights on in buildings like these! In an attempt to reign in Dubai's profligate fossil energy...

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The Green Sheikh Rubber Stamps Cradle To Cradle Event

Tafline Laylin - February 14, 2011

Green Sheik and Michael Braungart at green event in Abu Dhabi. One of the most respected environmental activists in the Middle East, no sustainability conference...

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Egyptian Strikes Clear The Air – Temporarily

Tafline Laylin - February 11, 2011

One unexpected consequence of the riots is cleaner air, because fewer factories are running. Amid the turmoil and disappointment of Egyptian President Mubarak's refusal to...

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UAE to host Sustainability Camp

Arwa Aburawa - February 10, 2011

The UAE takes another green step with a sustainability camp set for February 26. The United Arab Emirates has been up to all manner...

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Pacific Green Inaugurates Masdar City’s Sustainable Palm Gates

Tafline Laylin - February 10, 2011

These beautiful Palmwood® gates at the entrance of Masdar City help keep the hot desert winds at bay. What should the gates to the world's...

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Birds in Iran Migrate Between Polluted to Less-polluted Cities

Mehrdad Parsipour - February 9, 2011

Once part of the urban horizon, crows are leaving Iranian cities. Since the 1980s scholars have studied the influences of urbanization on the environment,...

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Istanbul Shoppers Rendevouz On Giant Green Roof

Tafline Laylin - February 9, 2011

This urban center may look normal, if having lunch on a roof of a mall is normal. Sadly replacing the traditional Arab Souqs or markets...

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Motorbikes Produce Almost Half of Tehran’s Sound Pollution

Mehrdad Parsipour - February 5, 2011

Yes, noise is a form of pollution from motorized vehicles that's bad for your health. Sound pollution in Iranian cities is hitting an all-time...

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Egypt’s Conflagration is an Advance Warning for an Unsustainable World

Susan Kraemer - February 6, 2011

Climate change, peak oil and too many mouths to feed topples the first of the world's now fragile economies. Egypt is just the first nation...

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Qatar Ministry To Get A Desert-Loving Cactus Building

Tafline Laylin - November 3, 2011

Qatar has chosen a building that is both shaped and acts like a cactus as their latest superstar project. With an area of less than...

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Bike Sharing Down to a Science

Green Prophet - February 1, 2011

New algorithms make bike sharing more efficient. The environmentally-friendly concept of bike-sharing is taking over European cities like Paris, and Tel Aviv is about...

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