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Empowered Qatari girls win first GCC hybrid electric car competition

An all-women team of Qatari students won the first GCC hybrid electric vehicle competition held in Abu Dhabi over the weekend. Showing some serious...

Renault pulls the plug on Israeli electric cars

The idea was a show-stopper when it was announced: Israel will produce an electric car with a switchable battery. This would reduce range anxiety...

This video will scare you into driving slower

Unlike medication, there are no warning ads that come with your car. The highest road accident fatalities in the world can be found among...

Tour Tel Aviv’s bus station in its all its twisted cement glory

I guess you could say that I have a love-hate relationship with Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station. Love: because it's where I met...

Ungreen rich Arab playboys fly in cars to London for holidays [video]

Why do super-rich Arabs drive around in ungreen super luxury gold Porches and other expensive cars while their poor countrymen face starvation? These types of...

Transformer train station built to withstand rockets!

Public transport is a must, even for people who live under the toil of troubles and conflict. The Israeli town Sderot that borders the...

Moovit raises $28 million for public transportation app

After the success of Waze, an app that lets you plan your route and avoid traffic in real time, comes Israel's next big movement...

Copenhagen Wheel is like a dynamo rocket booster for bikes! [video]

Now there is a good reason not to buy an electric bike: the Copenhagen Wheel from the Senseable City Lab can make you go...

City Transformer electric folding car is a kit car for urban dreams [video]

Israel may have flopped big time when its electric car company Better Place folded this year. It ended with almost a billion in financing...

PrimeAir from Amazon could be used for green goods VIDEO

You've probably seen the video of Amazon's Prime Air delivering a customer's goods within 30 minutes. If not, catch it below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNySOrI2Ny8 Just as the news...

Hyperloop, Elon Musk dreams of a fifth mode of transportation [video]

Elon Musk is known as the founder of SpaceX, a pioneer in the commercialization of space travel and Tesla, a company named after a...

Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airport Upcycled by Anees Maani, Artfully

Amman’s old Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) terminal will live on in a new artwork commissioned by airport operator Airport International Group (AIG).  The...

Gnrgy Buys Better Place for the Price of an Apartment in Tel Aviv

At a bargain basement price tag of only $450,000 the Israeli startup Gnrgy has bought the assets of the failed electric car company Better...

Better Place Investor Michael Granoff To Write Tell All Book

With almost a billion in financing and electric battery charge and change stations in place nationwide, at its critical hour Israel's electric car company...

Abu Dhabi is Phasing Out Cars and Siemens Wants to Help

Dubai's metro started running in 2009 (don't fall asleep though) but Abu Dhabi, the wealthier Emirate, is only now reducing its dependence on cars...

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Street Vegan in Sri Thanu is a must-stop family lunch spot on Koh Phangan, Thailand

If you’re anywhere near Sri Thanu on Koh Phangan, Thailand, around the yoga centers: Zen Beach, Haad Yao, or Salad Beach—make time for Street Vegan. It's vegan and so satisfying that one meal might convince you that eating plant-based is not a compromise. I suggest for any vegan restaurant owner or chef to come to this modestly-priced venue to learn from a master.

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Street Vegan in Sri Thanu is a must-stop family lunch spot on Koh Phangan, Thailand

If you’re anywhere near Sri Thanu on Koh Phangan, Thailand, around the yoga centers: Zen Beach, Haad Yao, or Salad Beach—make time for Street Vegan. It's vegan and so satisfying that one meal might convince you that eating plant-based is not a compromise. I suggest for any vegan restaurant owner or chef to come to this modestly-priced venue to learn from a master.

Plants can eat dust and grow – should we stop dusting them?

Dusty plants? Let them eat their hearts out.

Paris Modest Fashion Week offers style without exposure for Muslims

France is home to around 5 to 7.5 million Muslims according to estimates, and Özlem Şahin, head of the organization behind Modest Fashion Week, has described Paris as "one of the leading modest fashion capitals in Europe".

Kids are vaping. The media shock that made them stop

On one side: aggressive anti-vaping campaigns from the FDA, Truth Initiative, and state programs, backed by over $100 million in annual spending. On the other: a public health crisis. Screenshot

Baby teeth read like tree rings paint a picture of toxins in early life

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York offers a striking insight into how the environments we are born into can quietly shape our brains years later. By analyzing naturally shed baby teeth, the ones tucked under pillows for the tooth fairy, researchers have reconstructed a detailed timeline of exposure to environmental metals during pregnancy and early infancy.

Shebara hotel Saudi Arabia – is it eco-luxury dream or desert illusion?

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