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Qatar To Set Some Environmental Goals

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Courtney Nichols’ on Charity: Water

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Israel's Offshore Gas Deposits May Lead to Cleaner Air But Not Energy Independence

The historic discovery of a large deposit of natural gas off of the Israel coast has the potential to restructure the Israeli energy market,...

Israel Strikes "Natural Gas" Pocket, Promising Energy Independence for 15 Years

Amidst all its struggles to develop clean and cleaner technologies (and a war with Gaza), it seem that Israelis got a huge gift this...

Documenting the Demise of America's Largest Community Garden

I went to see Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s documentary film, “The Garden,” at Tribeca Cinemas in Manhattan, part of docs on the shortlist for the...

Eco Rabbi: Parshat Shemot – Why a Bush?

Each week Orthodox Jews read one segment of the Five Books of Moses so that they can complete the entire Five Books within the...

Eco Living Is Key to Middle East Property Investors

We've oohed and awed over the green building projects in Dubai: A recent survey has consigned that old saying ‘Location is everything,’ to the...

Choose "The Environment" During Latest Middle East Conflict

This isn't the forum for politics, but unfortunately so much of what decisions are made in the Middle East (ie funds allocated, prayers made)...

Drought in Jordan Calls People to Pray for Rain and the Controversial Dead-Red Peace Canal

(A map of Jordan and the surrounding region highlighting the Disi Aquifer and the proposed Red-Dead project.) With worrying frost alerts in Jordan getting farmers...

The Conflicted Middle East To Worsen As Global Warming Causes Rising Sea Levels

(Rapidly depleting water resources has forced residents of Sana'a to buy water from private sources. Water levels are dropping by 6 metres a year...

Jacob’s trees were the Cedars of God

In this week’s segment from the Torah, Parshat Vayigash, Jacob and his family go down to Egypt to Joseph, who is now second, only...

U.S.-Israel Binational Cleantech Forum: Creating a Strategy for the Future of Cleantech

Miya president and CEO Baruch Oren and B. Gaon Holdings Ltd. Chairman Moshe Gaon have presented a new forum: The U.S.-Israel Binational Cleantech Forum,...

Clean Tech Incubators from Israel and California Sign Water Deal

Bad news about low water levels in Israel, are so frequent, the details stark, that I am starting to avoid reading such stories. Some...

2008 a Big Year for Israel Cleantech Investments, Says Ernst & Young

Before the economic crisis made the question of investments something of a joke, venture capital investments in green technology worldwide saw a huge increase...

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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

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SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

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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