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Replacing Depleting Oil Will Shortly Outpace Fresh Demand

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...

Saudi Citizens Release Documentary Criticising Lack of Flood Protection

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

Jordan Teams With Spanish Firm To Cool Homes With The Sun

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...

Dubai Utility Doubles Business Electricity Rates in Three Years

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...

The Green Sheikh Rubber Stamps Cradle To Cradle Event

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...

Egyptian Strikes Clear The Air – Temporarily

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...

UAE to host Sustainability Camp

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

Pacific Green Inaugurates Masdar City’s Sustainable Palm Gates

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...

Birds in Iran Migrate Between Polluted to Less-polluted Cities

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

Istanbul Shoppers Rendevouz On Giant Green Roof

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...

Motorbikes Produce Almost Half of Tehran’s Sound Pollution

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...

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

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...

Qatar Ministry To Get A Desert-Loving Cactus Building

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...

Bike Sharing Down to a Science

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...

Ehrlich Architecture Trumps Hadid And Foster With UAE Parliament Win

Considered a huge upset in the architecture world, Ehrlich firm wins bid to build the new UAE Parliament Building. Foster & Partners have a solid...

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Ukrainian design studio Pilsok, known for its popular Beetle backpack, transforms discarded car airbags into a striking designer jacket honouring Ukraine's emergency rescuers.

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The Myths Killing Your Fleet’s Carbon Numbers

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China brings back battery swapping for electric trucks. Remember Shai Agassi and Better Place? We do

CATL is building thousands of battery-swap stations for electric trucks. Can China succeed where Israel's $850 million Better Place experiment failed?

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Elon Musk’s flying Tesla Roadster is here. My 13-year-old son thinks it’s the future

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