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"Dust Alert" Exposes Contaminants In Our Homes and Environment

Green Prophet - September 23, 2009

Worried that dust from a nearby construction zone will harm your family's health? A new Tel Aviv University tool could either confirm your suspicions...

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Reuse Your Pillows!

Jack Reichert - September 9, 2009

Pillows are made of not the best synthetic material for landfills. That plus the fact that pillow manufacturing companies recommend getting new ones every...

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A Miserable Walk Through Amman

Daniella Cheslow - October 4, 2011

According to the blog 360East, Amman is about to adopt a Bus Rapit Transit system and make plans for installing light rail, two important...

Cities

Beer Sheva's Old City Battles Shopping Malls

Daniella Cheslow - August 27, 2009

One of the most pressing needs in countries with little open space is to make urban life desirable enough that city folk won't want...

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Will Rihanna perform on Tel Aviv’s old garbage dump?

Karen Chernick - January 17, 2024

Tel Aviv's garbage dumped to be turned into a stadium to listen to stars like Rihanna and Beyonce.

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Israel Ditches Historic Land Administration

Daniella Cheslow - August 20, 2009

Homeowners in Israel can take title to the land under their houses and apartments after the Knesset voted in early August to privatize the...

Cities

Jordanian Water Conservation Campaign Going Straight to the Private Home in Amman

Karen Chernick - June 16, 2010

Yalla Nwaffer Mai, or Let's Save Water is a water conservation campaign launched in July by the Jordan Water Company (Miyahuna), HSBC Bank, and...

Cities

Where Does Oil REALLY Come From?

Jack Reichert - August 18, 2009

Unlike popular belief, oil does not come from the remains of dinosaurs, rather from the silica based life-form called diatoms. Diatoms live in the...

Cities

Globe Ecological Hub Recently Proposed for Israeli City of Modiin

Karen Chernick - August 12, 2009

Israeli architect Zvika Tamari (of TeaM Architects) recently proposed a conceptual plan for a Globe Ecological Hub in Modiin, a city in the center...

Cities

A New New Central Bus Station for Tel Aviv?

Jesse Fox - August 9, 2009

"I used to get off at the old bus station, and to me it was like another country..." goes the Tipex song (free translation...

Book Reviews

Yacobi Plumbs Israel's Built Environment in 'Constructing a Sense of Place'

Daniella Cheslow - July 29, 2009

In Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse (Ashgate, 2004), architect and planner Haim Yacobi has compiled a fascinating collection of...

Cities

East Jerusalem Getting First Mall

Daniella Cheslow - July 29, 2009

You heard it here when Jenin got a mall-ish furniture superstore. Now East Jerusalem is also joining the trend. According to Danny Rubinstein at...

Cities

Israel's Public Housing Blocks to Get Solar Roofs

Jesse Fox - July 27, 2009

Solar panels at a testing site in Abu Dhabi. (photo by Jesse Fox) According to a report published this week in Globes, Israel's public housing...

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Passive cooling for Syria’s beehive houses

Karen Chernick - June 30, 2023

Way before there were electronic ways to condition our temperatures, cooling methods were built into the architecture of traditional Middle Eastern homes. Such as the beehive homes found in Syria.

Cities

Are Suburbs Making Israeli Kids Fat?

Daniella Cheslow - July 11, 2012

A study released last week shows that more than one in five Israeli schoolchildren is overweight. According to Haaretz, the towns Nahariya (37%), Bat...

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