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Greenpeace Assesses Jordan’s Energy Future Without Nuclear Option

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Once just a small company with a negligible following, SodaStream has caused a resounding splash with its recent Super Bowl advertising debut. Following up...

France Says “Oui” to Masdar Renewables Deal

Masdar CEO Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber signed a joint declaration with the French government, paving the way for new collaboration on advancing clean energy...

50 Gulf Companies Voluntarily Cut Energy and Water Use

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IRENA Produces Free Global Renewable Energy Atlas

It's a sea-change for a region so linked to the hydrocarbon,  but new clean energy initiatives are heating up the Middle East. Thanks to the...

Katerva’s 10 World Changing Sustainable Projects for 2012

While there are no winners from the Middle East this year, an important awards organization Katerva scours the globe for people and organizations that...

Disgusting Flood of Fracking Water Devastates Egyptian Village

Image of flooding in Fares by Abu El Fadl, Egypt Independent Port Said and Cairo have been dominating Egyptian headlines of late, while Fares, a small...

Egypt is Close to Bridging the Distance to Saudi

The Egyptian government announced earlier this week that a plan to bridge the distance between Egypt and Saudi Arabia across the Gulf of Aqaba...

Jordan’s Enviro-Agencies Unite!

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Jordan and Masdar Ink Clean Energy Deal

There’s a lot of mingling afoot at conventions, and news of resulting hook-ups (including those we made there) at last week's Abu Dhabi World Future...

Sunny Solar Outlook For Middle East and North Africa

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are expected to bring 3.5GW of solar capacity online by 2015: Saudi Arabia and Turkey lead the...

“Irresponsible” World Bank Says Red-Dead Canal Feasible

It was about a decade in the making: without much fanfare the World Bank has released a report stating that the Dead Sea -...

$4 Million Doled Out to Green Innovators at Zayed Future Energy Awards

Using words like catastrophe, calamity and critical, Jordan's Queen Rania, the Presidents of France and Argentina and other world leaders sounded the clarion yesterday...

Jordan’s Queen Rania Featured at World Future Energy Summit

Green Prophet is on a VIP media tour in Abu Dhabi. We hope to meet Jordan's beautiful Queen Rania; or at least catch a...

Oil-Rich UAE Leads Emissions Accountability

Abu Dhabi has the world's 5th highest proven oil reserve and the 6th highest reserve of natural gas. This is a hydrocarbon-based economy that...

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

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Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

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From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.
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