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Why Israel Breathes Easy On Car-free Yom Kippur Day

Israel's green campaigners note the quiet streets and clear skies on Yom Kippur Day Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, is the holiest day...

Atoning for Environmental Sins in the Kitchen this Yom Kippur

Avoid environmentally unfriendly cooking habits in the new year The Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins this Friday night, September 12. In Jewish tradition this...

Artocos: Architectural “Musical” Activism in Dubai

Dubai's designers protest a planned development project with this musical power plant If we continue to usurp every inch of undeveloped land in order to...

Israel’s New “Green” Synagogue to Raise Environmental Awareness

Rabbi Ian Pear believes that public institutions should take the lead in generating environmental awareness. The relationship between ecology and worldwide religions has taken center...

Egypt’s Long Path to Nuclear Power

US President Nixon offered to build eight nuclear power plants for Egypt during the Cold War; Matt questions whether the first such plant will...

Israel’s Shriveled Vegetables Will Increase Market Prices

As temperatures continue to rise, can we expect to see more crop losses and higher market prices? Any attentive Israeli who has bought extra supplies...

A Black Smog-Craft Chokes Cairo’s Skies

Trapped air and burning rice waste turns Cairo's already sullied skies black during "Black Cloud Season" Not long ago I took a trip to the...

The Romans Would Be Proud of Jordanian-Greek Wind Farm Outside Jerash

A new wind farm is planned nearby the Jordanian city of Jerash. Located 48 kilometers north of Amman, the site is considered one of...

Marilyn Monroe And “The Salon of Beauty” In Dubai

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US Leaves Iraq With A Legacy Of Waste

$5 Billion couldn't put their country back together; will Iraqis be able to pick up the pieces? What is more wasteful than war? Bomb...

Intel Israel Is LEED’s Golden Child

Think of Israel and high tech, and the first word that pops into most minds is...Intel. Since setting up shop in the...

Yortanlı Dam To Flood Turkey’s Ancient City Alliaoni

Environmentalists are losing the battle to protect Alliaoni from drowning beneath the Yortanlı Dam's floodwaters Despite certain fits and starts between secular and conservative residents,...

Solaris Magic Carpet Generates Electricity

It's a tent, it's a tunnel, and it funnels the year-round cool Shamal wind. We've been so enthralled with the Land Art Generator Initiative...

When Abu Dhabi Art Meets Sand, Sun, and Sky

Glass art installation in Abu Dhabi generates inspiration and energy in one fell swoop Studied Impact in Abu Dhabi came to our attention when they...

Will Foster & Partners Achieve Carbon Neutrality In Hong Kong?

The carbon-neutral city, Masdar, has all-but-failed. Can this urban park in Hong Kong do better? Architectural firm Foster & Partners have their stamp all over...

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Top 5 Free Data Recovery Software of All Time

There is an old rule around computers that most of us learn only after something goes wrong: the most valuable part of your laptop is rarely the laptop. It is your stuff and all the data you accumulated along the way: the photographs, documents, unfinished work and years of digital debris stored inside it.

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