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Knesset Environment Committee Starts Fighting for Urban Trees

If you were going to use one word to describe Israel, the word "construction" would be a definite possibility.  Visitors who come to Israel...

As Global Clean Tech Investing Reaches Record Levels, Another Fund Focuses on Israel.

Ernst & Young has announced Clean Tech investment is at record levels as a new investment fund is looking to focus on Israel's clean...

Karnit Goldwasser Turns her Celebrity Status into Something Positive (and Green)

Karnit Goldwasser is most commonly known as the widow of IDF soldier Ehud Goldwasser, who was abducted by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement during the Second...

Galten Leases Half Million Acres To Grow Jatropha in Ghana

A jatropha nursery in Kaffrine, Senegal It will take dedicated visionaries to help stop America's addiction to foreign oil. And that's what Doron Levi, the...

Souls Wait for Heaven As Toxic Pesticides From Israel Pulled from Sunken Ferry

About 500 bodies wait submerged in a Philippine ferry –– ironically named the Princess of the Stars –– until divers and authorities feel it...

Environmental Delegation Takes a Deeper Look at Israel's Complexities

Since 1982, the American Jewish Communities' Project Interchange has been giving a first-hand introduction of Israel and its regional historical and contemporary challenges to...

Dog poop DNA takes doodie off the strees

City councils world-wide are watching as municipal workers in the Israeli city of Petach Tikva are DNA-testing dog droppings in order to identify and...

Old Israeli Dump Threatens Water Resources in West Bank

Events over the past week indicate that Palestinian surface and ground water resources are in great danger. Last Friday, around three hundred Palestinians protested the...

Rishon Lezion Schools Walk for the Environment

If you live near a school, then you know what 8 am and afternoon pick up times mean for the environment.  With all of...

Green Profits – Cleantech Israel on the Up and Up!

Israel seems to fall into the thick of the boom, and I'm not talking terror. With the tech boom, we were on the forefront....

Hillpoint Energy’s Israeli Design Team is Soon to Announce a New Wind Turbine Design

Perhaps the next green power revolution will come out of Israeli engineering. Hillpoint Energy CEO Ben Spitz told Green Prophet’s Tyson Herberger his company’s Israeli...

Jordanians, Israelis and Palestinians Collaborate to Save the Jordan River

There are few environmental topics in the Middle East more controversial than the proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal to revive the Dead Sea, which...

SPNI Boycotts Ministry of Environment Gala Over New Settlement

The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) announced yesterday that they would boycott the 60th anniversary gala evening held by the...

Shari Arison Officially Launches Water Services Company Miya

Shari Arison, Israel's wealthiest citizen, took advantage of the International Water Congress in Vienna to formally announce Miya. The new company aims to make...

The California-Israel Chamber of Commerce to Bring Top Israeli Cleantech Companies to the US

For four days in November up to fifteen Israeli cleantech companies are to be given VIP access to top decision makers including potential partners,...

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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.

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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.

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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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