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Bogus Job Offers For Elephant Trainers And Graphic Designers

Deputy Editor of XPRESS goes undercover and exposes rampant recruitment racket in the United Arab Emirates. Mazhar Farooqui, Deputy Editor of XPRESS, posted a resume...

Cluster Of Turkish Buildings Cool Off With Roof Pools

Global Architecture Development circumvents heat and building codes with this house in Southwest Turkey. There's all kinds of things you can do with roofs: in...

UAE To Cut Electricity Output, Carbon Emissions

The United Arab Emirates has one of the largest carbon footprints in the world. Not surprising considering the small country has an indoor ski...

Is Jerusalem Stone Under Threat?

We've heard about peak oil. Ilana asks about "peak Jerusalem stone" - and if it will ever be under threat. My earliest memory of...

Earthmisting Irrigation May be Plausible Solution to Middle East Agriculture

If it works as claimed, the Earthmister will go a long way toward greening the deserts. In the water scarce Middle East, a new type...

“Mayslits Kassif Architecture” Takes Coveted European Landscape Architecture Award for Tel Aviv Port

For the first time in history, Israeli architects who designed Tel Aviv's Port took best design at the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture Awards. The...

Rawabi: Palestine’s Greenest City, or Greenest Wash?

Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry threatens to enforce their will in Palestinian territory, where the plans for Rawabi are not as green as Palestinian/Qatari developers...

Students Redefine Urban Spaces In Three Days and Three Nights

With too much brilliance to choose from, judges of last week's 72 Hour Urban Action Competition in Israel awarded two first prizes. It is less...

Going Green Is A Tactical Offensive In War

The US Army in Afghanistan recognizes that going green solves fuel supply problems for troops. Logistical supply line problems in military forces have been the...

Gerard Evenden Lifts Masdar’s Veil Of Mystery – Half Way

An interview that is supposed to shed light on Masdar's real progress does little more than reorganize the project's rhetoric Following a recent New York...

Israel Shares Strategies For Taking Back The Desert Oasis November 8-11, 2010

Over 500 people from 50 countries will join the Third Annual International Conference on "Drylands, Deserts and Desertification: The Route to Restoration," on November...

Déjà vu: Kuwait Water Worries Reminiscent Of Other Gulf Region Countries

Kuwaiti desalination plants similar to this one provide all the country's fresh water at great environmental expense A Gulf Times article that points out the...

“72 Hour Urban Action” Takes Over Bat Yam, Israel

Teams have 72 hours to re-design an urban area in a pretty crumby satellite city in Israel. It's guerilla urban architecture. We've all had the...

BP Deep Drilling In Libya Threatens Archeological Sites

Known for bulldozing archeology ruins into the sea, is it hello BP and bye bye Appolonia? Libya's ancient archeological sites under threat from offshore...

Global Warming Message Goes Awry at UAE Water Park

Energy-intensive water park in the desert, offers  a "home" to displaced penguins. Every now and then, the Middle East comes up with a scheme that...

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

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Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology.

Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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