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China buys Israel’s largest food producer putting Zionists on edge

Sensational food production issues in Israel are covered by Green Prophet. These issues have included exposure of cruelty in the meat industry; frozen fish from...

Arab investors and land grabbers wanted by Egypt

Egypt plans to lease 25,000 hectares of agricultural land to Arab investors. Agriculture minister Ayman Abu Hadid made the announcement in Tunis recently. Egypt is...

Abu Dhabi’s Masdar appoints new leaders

Masdar CEO Sultan Al Jaber is moving on to "greener" pastures, according to a statement released by Abu Dhabi investment giant Mubadala. The firm...

Egypt runs to Saudi for help over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam

When all else fails, run to wealthy Saudi Arabia. That seems to be the prevailing thought among Egyptian officials at a loss to resolve the...

Waterways helps water tech make “soft” landing in Africa

Ask any African who lives off the land, and they’ll tell you that water is life. But when the wells and rivers dry...

Masdar sues Spain over solar energy subsidy cuts

Masdar has sued the Spanish government.  The multi-pronged company funded in part by the government of Abu Dhabi helped build the world's first 24/7 solar...

Will burning birds shut down Brightsource, world’s largest solar thermal power plant?

The switch was flipped this week as California's Ivanpah solar thermal power plant went live. The 392 megawatt concentrating solar plant (CSP) is now...

Menasol Dubai answers key financing questions for Middle East CSP solar projects

Key investors in renewable energy for the Middle East and North Africa regions will be on hand to discuss the criteria for securing project...

Morocco’s Berbers take on Africa’s richest silver mine – and the king

Africa's largest silver mine has been operating in the Atlas mountains since 1969, but the Berber people living in the surrounding villages remain among...

$9 billion in 2,000 MW solar investment streams into Morocco

The bone-dry plains of the Western Sahara may be no place to plant a garden, but their extreme solar irradiance values render them ideal...

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi to mobilize climate action at UN Climate Summit

Abu Dhabi will host high level talks in advance of the UN Climate Summit in New York later this year. Albeit one of the...

Google buys home sensor Nest for $3.2 billion

I own a Smart TV, but it doesn't connect or operate through a very smart interface. I have heating for my home, but it...

Jordan, the PA and Israel trade water from the Red and Sea of Galilee

Some good news out of the Middle East region for a change: It was announced at the Israel Business Forum that Israel has signed...

eBay and Israel’s Ormat Team Up for Clean Power in Utah

Israel's Ormat Technologies has brokered a deal with eBay to power the online auction giant's new data center in Utah using Recovered Energy Generation...

Elephant Ivory Racket Linked to Westgate Mall Terrorists

We interviewed Karl Amman about illegal wildlife trafficking at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi about two years ago. Since then, increasingly violent poaching incidents...

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Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

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Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

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Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology.

Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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