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Durrat Al Bahrain Artificial Islands – "A Place Like No Other"

Too many artificial islands imperil endangered species, coral reefs, and humans too? If Bahrain’s endangered dugong and turtle populations had a voice, surely they would...

Jordan’s Sustainable Building Conference

The third "Think Green" conference, held in Amman this week, encourages green buildings and sustainable communities. We heard about Jordanian Queen Rania's activities earlier...

Zaha Hadid: One of TIME Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People

Will Iraqi Architect Hadid Use Her Star Power to Demand More Environmental and Social Responsibility? Much of the news coming from Iraq is fraught...

Calling all Young Architects and Grad Students to Join ECOWEEK 2010

Young Israeli and Palestinian Architects Are Invited to Join World Renowned Architects for a Week of Green Building  Lectures,  Site Visits, and Workshops. With...

Join The Wide World of WED on June 5th

For This Year's World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Asks the World's Citizens to Mobilize for Climate Action. In the...

Geotectura's Visual Feast, Out of the Box

"The Sufi Order International (SOI) community desired to build an interspiritual temple called the 'Universel' at the Abode of the Message located in the...

The Best of Buckminster Fuller 2010 Finalists

Image credit: © 2009 Farshid Assassi, Courtesy of BNIM Architects. The International Living Building Institute Offers an Earthier, more Holistic Building Standard.  The Omega...

Tel Aviv’s Annual Architectural Weekend Celebrates Urban Green Spaces

Tel Aviv highlights green buildings, spaces, construction techniques, and gardens during its annual "Houses from Within" weekend. One spring weekend every year, for the...

Rawabi, the First Planned Palestinian City

Tractors carving up the face of a hill in preparation for the new town. (Photo credit: Green Prophet) About a half hour’s drive north of...

The Wind Catchers of Yazd, Iran

Green Prophet looks to ancient Iran for some current alternative ideas to electricity-powered air con. Catch the wind with the bagdir wind tower! The concept...

Saudi Splurges for Shanghai Expo 2010

Despite its claim to promote sustainable urban development practices, the world’s largest, disposable Expo invites irony and criticism. The first ever world fair took place...

More Green Building Talk on TED: Catherine Mohr

By taking into account embodied energy, Catherine and her husband half the energy required to build their home. In her recent Ted talk, Catherine Mohr...

AIA Names Saudi's KAUST In 2010 Top Green Projects

The king willed it - so it was built...Michael Arndt questions the 'greenliness' of KAUST, granted the US Green Building Council’s highest LEED certification...

Holyland and Israel’s Commons, The Government’s Song

A real estate scandal in Jerusalem reveals Israel's government's dangerous stance on the privatization of land development, and use of open spaces, Yosef argues. As...

Tel Aviv Requests Public's Help in Boardwalk Redesign

A rendering of Tel Aviv's new central promenade: stairs leading down to the beach, a paved lower level, shade-providing structures and new sidewalk...

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

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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

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