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European Union to Help Protect Palestinian Environment

For Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, lack of infrastructure is a big obstacle for protecting the environment.  Old and malfunctioning infrastructure (or...

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...

Rishon LeZiyyon: “First in Zion” for water independence?

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)

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...

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What does Pride mean in a region where acceptance can never be taken for granted? From refugee dancers and artists to entrepreneurs, athletes, and environmental changemakers, these are seven Green Prophet stories that celebrate the freedom to be yourself.

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What is holistic dentistry?

A recent study of graduating dental hygiene students in the United States suggests there is a knowledge gap. Researchers found that 42% of respondent students were unfamiliar with holistic dentistry, while 60% did not feel comfortable discussing it with patients. Yet nearly half believed the topic deserved greater attention in dental hygiene education.

Israeli Hydrogen Startup H2Pro Are Trying to Solve Clean Energy’s Hardest Problem

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