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Middle East Reporters: Consider Society of Environmental Journalists

Although there is no shortage of environmental disasters and cleantech innovation pouring out of Israel, there is only so much English-language coverage the local...

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When a small group of Jews arrived on the shores of Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1882, they named the sand dunes they purchased to build...

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)

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Galten Leases Half Million Acres To Grow Jatropha in Ghana

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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...

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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...

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

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Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

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A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

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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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