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Waterless by 2017? Yemen Capital Fails To Harvest Its Summer Rain

Yemen's capital city is expected to be the world's first waterless one by 2017. A skyrocketing population, lack of government planning, and the bad-habit...

Egyptian Energy Crisis Sends Protesters to the Streets

Unstable power...Egyptians activists blame their poor governmental planning for power cuts that have disrupted Ramadan. The Egyptian government has announced its intention to continue...

Moroccan Environmental Activist Faces Two Years In Prison Over Trees

Reporters Without Borders is providing Mohammed Attaoui legal assistance for trumped up charges received for exposing government corruption over illegal logging. In March 2010,...

Abu Dhabi Should Opt for Solar Not Nuclear for Future Needs

The UAE relocates the residents of Braka in order to build four nuclear power plants. As the shovel hits the sand in the remote...

Gas Discovery Will Not Change Israel’s World Standing

Although the Tamar and Leviathan gas discoveries might seem like manna from heaven, Israel shouldn't drop its guard just yet Compared to its Arab neighbors,...

Hamas Thwarts A Greener Gaza

Responding to necessity, some Gaza residents are designing clever "eco" products, but Hamas is bringing them down Matt recently described the possibility of a green...

Dead Sea Worker Exposes Environmental Disaster Through Film

Learning a lesson from the BP workers who kept silent about Deepwater Horizon's inevitable burst, Dead Sea Workers speak out. And one is putting...

Solar Power Spreads To Har Gilo Settlement in the West Bank

Due to political constraints West Bank settlements will pay more for solar energy. Residents of the Har Gilo settlement in the Guzh Etzion settlement block...

Growing Green Ethic Amongst Emirati Businesses

Despite the UAE's bad "eco-rap," Summertown Interiors is helping to boost the region's environmental ethos The UAE has been getting some rather bad press recently...

Can UAE Foreign Minister and South African President Jacob Zuma Save The Environment?

We question the efficacy of a UN sustainable development panel chaired by the man who "showered off HIV" and including the Foreign Minister from...

Beating the Nationalist Drum and Israel’s Oil Interests

  Israel needs to move away from nationalist oil rhetoric and pursue renewable energy projects instead I was astounded to happen on the full-page advertisement on...

Arab High-Tech Entrepreneurs Changing the Face of Nazareth

Galil Software brings high-tech opportunities to Arab engineers in Israel’s geographic peripheries Earlier we reported that Israel needs to pick up its cleantech pace....

Germany’s Solar Millennium AG Pulls out of Israel Bid

Solar Millennium AG is the next in a string of companies to withdraw its bid from the tumultuous Ashelim tender in Israel. In their...

Egyptian Gas Exporter Given Israeli Tax Exemption in $6 Billion Deal

Egypt's oil and gas refineries on the Suez Canal. The Egypt based East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG) which exports natural gas from Egypt to Israel...

Ban Saudi’s Bottled Water?

Not only does Jibal Faifa Water Company's bottled water contain excess levels of cancer-causing chemical, but plastic bottles are the bane of the environment...

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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.
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