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Fishing for Peace in Gaza at TEDx

Students in Tel Aviv propose business "net" - work for peace. Left to right: David Welch, Ohad Kot, Danielle Angel, David McGeady and Osher...

Steps and Science for Saving the Jordan River Between Jordan, Palestinians and Israelis

Jordanian teens work to learn more about Jordan River conservation efforts and practices. Friends of the Earth Middle East (known as foy-me for its...

TaKaDu and 8 Israel-related Clean Tech Headlines, Week of April 25, 2010

Israel's Air Force, Shari Arison, Asia and more made headlines related to Israeli cleantech this past week. Image by Jesse Fox During the week of...

Qatar’s Vodaphone Leads Phone and Paper Recycling Program

Vodaphone teaches the Gulf how to go green. See what they did in 2020.

Civilizations, Ancient and Present, Depend on Water

From leaps in the bronze age to massive droughts that wiped out cities, civilizations we learn from history, depend on water. We need to...

Black Globe for Israel's PM, While Green Goes To Worthy Organizations

Netanyahu 'wins' a Black Globe Award as a statement that he should improve his environmental reform plan, and other organizations win positive Green Globes. Earth...

Israel Defense Ministry Stalls on Sewage Treatment

Raw sewage from Jerusalem flows straight into the Dead Sea. Many of Israel's army bases were built quickly, in isolated spots, and 150 of...

Forbes Names Israel's Shari Arison As One of the World's Greenest Billionaires

We know that billionaires with their minds and hearts in right place, can do right by the planet. Taking notice, Forbes business magazine has looked...

Greenpeace Mediterranean Demands that Nestle-Osem Give the Orangutans and Rainforests a Break

Greenpeace activists won't give Nestle-Osem a break. They say that the Indonesian rainforests and orangutans are more important than Kit Kat bars. Greenpeace activists and...

Nets of Peace Attempts to Alleviate Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Environmentally Sustainable Fishing

Five graduate students come up with a plan for conflict resolution and sustainable fishing in Gaza. A creative team of five graduate students currently studying...

Environmental Economics? Voice of the Nobelists

Yosef explores Paul Klugman's environmental economics essay in the NY Times. Klugman and Gore's words, Yosef finds, may influence decision-makers to slow the gallop...

SDE Makes Wave Power in China Where It's Completing 1 MW Power Plant Deal

Sunnier days for smog-ridden China ahead? The next wave in China may be clean energy culled from the sea. Image via ivanwalsh The Israeli...

Brazil and Israel to Collaborate on Water

They've tried the peeing in the shower campaign. Now Brazil looks to Israel for water technologies. Can we hope for a Gisele Bundchen (above...

Grow Old With The Sun As Israel’s Migdal Invests in Sunday Solar

A large insurance company from Israel invests about $30 milliom in solar energy company Sunday. Image via mcohenchromiste. The sun makes us old and wrinkly,...

Iran and Qatar Align to Help the Environment

While the world sees Iran up to nuclear arms, Qatar and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding helping to preserve the environment....

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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.

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

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

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.

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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.

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

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

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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