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Is Urjuan a Wise Expenditure of Qatar's Oil and Gas Wealth?

Tafline Laylin - June 17, 2010

The Urjuan City Development is a Symbol of Qatar's Rapid Economic Growth In February we wrote about the memorandum signed by Qatar and Iran, which...

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The Best Way to Keep Buildings Green is Not to Build New Ones

Maurice Picow - March 17, 2010

Central Tel Aviv, Cira 1940's: A Sustainable Idea Then and Now All over the Middle East, many old and often historical buildings are being torn down in order...

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Dubai-based Timelinks Designs Modern Ziggurat

Tafline Laylin - June 16, 2010

Is it really sensible to squish one million people into this self-sustaining city/building? Like many of Dubai’s projects The World, which will exacerbate shoreline erosion...

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Samir Kassir Square Blends the Organic with the Urban in Beirut

Karen Chernick - June 16, 2010

When you live in a city and pass the same developed areas day after day, you can forget that the concrete jungle is unnatural. ...

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Selçuklu Evi Eco-ish Boutique Hotel in Turkey

Tafline Laylin - June 17, 2010

From a heritage building in the historic region of Cappadocia, Turkey, this hotel works with local crafts and craftsmen. It is important to apply...

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Sheikh Abdul Aziz: A Green Sheikh Who Cares About Our Planet

Maurice Picow - August 3, 2010

The rich folk from the United Arab Emirates are known for their over-the-top cars and wealth. Like gold-plated mercedes. Faux or real, the oil-rich...

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Is Moshe Safdie’s Habitat ’67 for Middle Eastern Urban Housing?

Tafline Laylin - September 12, 2022

Habitat ’67 was a model for sustainable village living, in the city. Based on the model city Haifa, does it translate to the Middle...

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Bring Moshe Safdie’s Green Building to the Middle East

Tafline Laylin - March 7, 2010

Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 designed for Montreal World Fair a model of sustainable living. Image via Wikipedia. Sustainable building is gaining some speed in...

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Dubai Municipality Plans to Expand Green Spaces

Ira Moskowitz - June 16, 2010

The Dubai municipality seeks to increase the emirate’s green areas by 4% by the end of next year, including new public parks and additional landscaping, ArabianBusiness.com...

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Gore’s Clarion Call

Dr. Yosef Gotlieb - March 4, 2010

Yosef Gotlieb, educator and writer, opines on critics of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. Image via asterdata. In a meticulously reasoned essay appearing on the Opinion...

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Uber-Designed Kindergarten Provides Beautiful Environment, but not a Sustainable Environment

Karen Chernick - February 15, 2010

A beautiful, uber-designed kindergarten was recently completed in Ramat Hasharon, a suburb of Tel Aviv in Israel. A collaboration of Sarit Shani Hay (who...

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Energy City Qatar on Target for 2012

Ira Moskowitz - February 12, 2010

In a press conference this week, the CEO of Energy City Qatar (ECQ), Hesham al-Emadi, expressed confidence that the $2.6 billion project will be...

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New Geo-Archaeological Study Reveals 2,500 Years of Mediterranean Sea Level Fluctuations

Rachel Bergstein - February 7, 2010

The Templar palace ruins in Akko (Acre), one of the sites where a geo-archaeological study was carried out. New research finds that short-term rising...

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Arab Students Oppose Spain's Boycott of Israeli Students at Solar Decathlon

Karin Kloosterman - February 5, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urOoczH5DWE&feature=player_embedded Political extremists launched a boycott campaign targeting Israel last year, pressuring Spain into expelling Ariel University Center (AUC) from the 2010 Solar Decathlon as...

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Recent Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture Focused on Green Design

Karen Chernick - February 4, 2010

The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture, an international conference series initiated in 1992, is devoted to discussing contemporary issues in the fields of architecture, urban...

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