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Lease Your Roof To A Fiddler, A Farmer, or An Independent Power Producer

Need a place to park your solar panels or urban garden? SEGlet's website offers a revolutionary crowdsourcing solution Real estate has taken on a...

From City Sewage to Solar and Wind as Dexia Enters Israel’s Green Circus

A burst pipe soon thing of the past? News about new investment in Israeli cleanteach tends to be dominated by announcements of new and advanced...

Tap Into Auxiliary Water Supplies With Your AC

Gallons of water can be produced in hours.  The world water crisis is a definite fact, and the availability of fresh water for drinking, cooking,...

Architect From Fortune 500 Company Criticizes Middle East’s “Glass Monsters”

Glass may be beautiful, but in the Middle East, it's far from eco-friendly It's one thing for environmental bloggers to criticize architects or project managers...

Ashkelon’s Proposed Natural Gas Power Plant Still Not Environmentally Friendly

Ruptures in natural gas pipelines like this one could cause a gas-fired power plant to shut down. Ashkelon's planned gas-fired power plant is being hailed...

500 Tonne Food Waste Undermines Holy Month Of Ramadan

Officials in Abu Dhabi launched the "Think before you waste" campaign to help prevent food from piling up in landfills during Ramadan While Muslims are...

What is Causing Breast Growth in Chinese Toddlers?

When was the last time you checked the ingredients in your baby's formula? A mystery is unfolding in the central area of Wuhan and the...

BrightSource Energy One Step Closer to World’s Largest Solar Plant

If the California public approves, Brightsource Energy will proceed to construction in the Fall despite rare desert tortoise Although BrightSource Energy pulled out of the...

Haim Dotan’s Tao of Architecture

Israeli  Haim Dotan incorporates the soul of nature into his art and architecture Few things make our green hearts soar more than an architect with...

If Homo Sapiens Want A Home, They’re Gonna Need Some Biodiversity First

If our leaders don't get their hands dirty and effect real plans to protect biodiversity, we stand to lose the land we live on ...

Should Cities In The Middle East Be More Dense, Like Manhattan?

Though urban density is better for the environment, we don't have to give up all the benefits of country living (such as locally-grown food) Though...

Despite Everything, Shrinking Dead Sea is a Popular Tourist Destination

Tourists still love the Dead Sea's mineral rich waters. But for how long? Despite the fact that the Dead Sea is shrinking by as much...

We Are All Connected: Heat Wave In Russia Affects Egypt’s Wheat Supply

Egypt is the world's largest importer of wheat; could Russia's heat wave (and subsequent ban on grain exports) become Egypt's hunger? Bill McKibben...

Get Mad With Bill McKibben: 10-10-10

Get mad about poor energy policies that are heating up our planet, and then get organized on 10-10-10 I was taught the value of balanced...

Interview With Entity Green, Jordan’s Sustainable Development Organization

Entity Green brings greener development, recycling, and eco-friendly lifestyles to Amman, Jordan. Above, an EG team constructing a new building. After learning about the...

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Barnacle glue could fix coral reefs, inspire new advances in building and medicine

Aalto University researchers create a protein-based adhesive inspired by barnacles and mussels that works underwater and could aid coral reef restoration.

Jaakko Torvinen finds that the next green building revolution is misfit trees

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HelloFresh’s pride prepping ad raises a bigger question: we are we still outsourcing dinner?

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Jaakko Torvinen finds that the next green building revolution is misfit trees

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Black fathers live longer than non-fathers, new study

Researchers found that fatherhood was associated with lower rates of early death among Black men, while early fatherhood was linked to poorer long-term health outcomes.

Dan Zaslavsky’s energy tower dream is rising again in Iran and China

The Energy Tower idea never made the leap from drawings and engineering studies to full-scale construction. But nearly two decades after most people stopped talking about it, the concept is quietly evolving in two unexpected places: China and Iran. The concept let dreamers dream and doers do - figuring out more pleasing designs and engineering.

A visit to Amirim, Israel’s first all-vegetarian village in the Galilee

Just 15 kilometers from Tzfat there is a moshav that was founded in the late 50s that was ideologically influenced by organic, vegetarian and vegan principles. My hostess at Ohn-Bar, the tzimmer where I stayed, explained that the people of Amirim were among the pioneers of Israel’s strong vegetarian movement.
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