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San Francisco's Sherith Israel To Become Seismic-Safe

Near The Dead Sea fault, can Israel's home synagogues withstand the next big earthquake? The San Francisco Chronicle announced that the Sherith Israel synagogue,...

Holyland's Unnatural “Monster on the Mountain” Built with Bribes

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denies the charges, but he is suspected of accepting $1million to push through the highly contested Holyland Project which...

The Eco-House in Aqaba, Jordan

Tareq Emtairah built this eco-house to prove that energy efficient buildings aren't always prohibitively expensive. Jordan’s Prince Hassan does not shoulder his environmental concerns alone,...

Qatar's Green Building Council Rallies Community Leaders

Qatar's Green Building Council (QGBC) founder and chairman Eng. Issa M. Al Mohannadi will speak at the "Planet and Profit in Partnership" on April...

Architect Cameron Sinclair Gives a Damn

With a mantra to "design like you give a damn," Sinclair has transformed thousands of lives. Whether to save governments billions of dollars in mutual...

The Story Behind Jerusalem's Royal Rock

The demand for Jerusalem stone comes with a social and environmental cost We have applauded Jerusalem’s living building, and we have drooled over delicious...

Re-Assessing Masdar City

Is Masdar City a beacon for Middle Eastern development? It may take another 10 years to find out. We have been skeptical of Masdar City...

What's Sustainable about Masdar's Foster+Partners?

Foster+Partners, architect firm, claim projects like Masdar City are sustainable. Are they? Meet Foster + Partners: one thousand employees work in their twenty-two offices...

Dubai's Burj Khalifa Will Tower in Darkness During Earth Hour

Burj towers over Dubai. The environmentally-wasteful building will turn its lights off on Earth Hour. (Image via csmonitor.com) The Green Prophet has questioned the environmental...

Jean Nouvel’s National Museum of Qatar Design is Unveiled at NYC's Museum of Modern Art

"The New York Times reports the unveiling of the French architect's latest Middle Eastern project To some, the desert comprises an intimidating plain of dirty...

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

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...

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

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...

Dubai-based Timelinks Designs Modern Ziggurat

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...

Samir Kassir Square Blends the Organic with the Urban in Beirut

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

Selçuklu Evi Eco-ish Boutique Hotel in Turkey

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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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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