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GP Exclusive Interview: Turkey Beginning to Lay Infrastructure for Hydrogen Economy

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Yerukim believes that money should be "green" and if it doesn't grow on trees, it should at least help trees grow. A new economic project...

Bonn: The Latest Climate Talks and the Middle East

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Israeli Government Officials Prepare to Paint the Knesset Green

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Iran Quit Dirty Energy Subsidies And Survived

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World’s First Integrated Renewables Combined Cycle Power Plant To Be Built in Turkey

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Bicycle Activists Stop in Istanbul En Route to Palestine

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Should Green Organisations Accept Sponsorship From Big Bad Corporations?

From climate events to marine conservation projects, it seems that green organisations in the Middle East are happy to take money from not-so-green corporations It...

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HelloFresh’s pride prepping ad raises a bigger question: we are we still outsourcing dinner?

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Jaakko Torvinen finds that the next green building revolution is misfit trees

Crooked, forked and curved trees are often treated as second-class timber. They are considered less valuable, and not suitable for load bearing walls or support systems in building. If a tree trunk is not straight enough to become a saw log, it is frequently diverted into pulp production or burned for energy. Now, new research from Aalto University could help change that.

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

Just 15 kilometers from Tzfat there is a moshav that was founded in the late 50s that was ideologically influenced by organic, vegetarian and vegan principles. My hostess at Ohn-Bar, the tzimmer where I stayed, explained that the people of Amirim were among the pioneers of Israel’s strong vegetarian movement.
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