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How Data Mining Turns You Into A Super Consumer

Visual clues about you are just the tip of the information iceberg. Your shopping habits can be made malleable by others through data mining. New...

Measure Your Water Footprint

Country data reveals that Syria, Lebanon and Iraq are potentially the only virtual water exporting countries in the Middle East. Get in the know...

Tour One of the Largest Solar Thermal Projects on Earth at MENASOL 2012

This year's MENASOL on the 16th and 17th of May in Abu Dhabi, offers something even more special!

Israel’s Carmel Wildfire Blame Goes All the Way to the Top

Turkish firefighting airplane moments after releasing chemicals on 2010 Carmel wildfire: Photo by Skyscraper City Fourteen months after Israel's worst environmental wildfires destroyed more than...

100+ Ways to Conserve Water

You don't have to have a million-dollar set up to save water. Follow the links to 100+ simple water-saving tips. Sometimes we believe in short...

The Fukushima Disaster One Year On

 The Fukushima disaster forced 150,000 people to flee their homes – a year later, radioactive contamination is still keeping them away In the lead up...

IKEA’s Blue and Yellow Also Has a Green Face

IKEA Israel's Blue-Yellow buildings also have a green policy IKEA's blue and yellow store motifs have become familiar to households all over the world,...

Has Israel Become a Petrostate?

Why does Israel so lag Arab neighbors like Morocco and Egypt in its renewable energy production? I do not understand how the nation that invented CSP solar thermal - the solar energy that now powers much of the worlds gigantic utility-scale solar plants - can be just now announcing some tiny 35 MW solar project as its "largest ever!" - and Spain's Solaer group that is supposedly to build it; doesn't even have a website - when Morocco is building its first 500 MW plant with international energy giant Siemens. Can anyone tell me what's going on? I have never lived in the Middle East region, unlike the rest of the local bloggers here at GreenProphet - perhaps I'm missing something that is rather obvious to the rest of you. In the US, only our fossil states are as backward in renewable energy development.

Malta to Get State-of-the-Art Floating Wind Farm from Hexicon

Sweden's Hexicon to supply Malta with 10% of its electricity with a platform-mounting floating wind farm Despite the fact that the EU is willing to...

Jordan’s Green Fairytale- ‘Once Upon A Water’ Campaign

Launched by 7iberINC, Once Upon A Water aims to tell the story of Jordan's vanishing water supply and how they can have a 'happily...

Politics Makes Scrapping Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Gulf Difficult

Making fuel subsidies a thing of the past may 'half the global carbon target', but politics is a real barrier to change in rich...

Siemens Sells First 100 MW of Turbines to Morocco

The German renewable energy giant Siemens Energy has just secured its first wind turbine orders within Africa, with orders for two new wind farms going...

Syria’s Organic Food Market Ripe for Exports to Europe

With farming traditions that are already "organic", embattled Syria can easily become an important organic food producer, based on climate, practices and location to...

Thirsty Gulf Country Quits Exports of Precious Groundwater

Abu Dhabi will no longer be sharing their precious groundwater. Dubai's water scarce neighbor Abu Dhabi recently announced that it has banned all groundwater exports,...

Israel and Palestine: The Place of Politics In The Mideast’s Environment

Do you feel that the politics behind environmental issues in Israel-Palestine are being sidelined?  A couple of weeks ago, Green Prophet reported on the news...

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One of the World’s Biggest Candy Companies Became a Leader in Cocoa Science

Most people know Mars for M&M's and Snickers. Few realize the company has spent four decades researching cocoa flavanols and sustainable cocoa science. After six days testing CocoaVia with pioneers of Toronto's raw food movement, Green Prophet explores the surprising story behind one of the world's most researched cocoa supplements.

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Jewish herbalism is experiencing a revival as educators like Naomi Spector uncover centuries of plant knowledge preserved through the diaspora. Blending the wisdom of Maimonides, Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, and remedies passed from generation to generation, this forgotten ecological heritage reveals how Jewish communities adapted to new landscapes while keeping their cultural identity rooted in the natural world.

Finding Your Sea Legs Aboard the Neptun of Marstal

The Neptun of Marstal is more than a restored Danish sailing ship. Operated as a non-profit sail-training organization, it invites people of all ages to swap screens for sails, learn traditional seamanship and discover how caring for the sea begins by experiencing it firsthand. Along the way, strangers become crewmates, old maritime skills are kept alive, and the voyage offers a powerful lesson in environmental stewardship, cooperation and the enduring value of learning by doing.

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Dead Sea Scroll mystery may be solved by a calendar that lost touch with the seasons

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