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First Practical Sun-Powered Car Stella Wins World Solar Challenge 2013

Stella, a solar-powered family car designed by students from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in has won the World Solar Challenge 2013, ushering in a...

The Iconic VW Van in the Middle East

Volkswagen's "hippie van" was the preferred mode of transportation for peace lovers during the 1960s, but Brazil is shutting down the last production line...

Will Tesla’s New Model X Crack the Middle Eastern Market?

Tesla has received both critical acclaim and financial gain for its successful Model S sedan, and has followed this up with the development of...

Jordan’s Environmentalists Seek Seat at Government Table

Jordan's activists have officially petitioned to re-establish the country’s "green party", according to human rights activist Ghandi Abu Sharar, who was also a founding...

Why Teen Drivers Should Listen to Barry Manilow When Driving

In countries like Saudi Arabia where the dangerous and fatal "sport" of drifting cars into crowds of people is considered a past-time, we wonder...

SkyTran: World’s First Levitating Transit System Heads to Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv will be the first city to install a magnetic levitating transit system (maglev) designed by NASA and SkyTran, and the electric train...

Palestine’s First Bike Lane in Jericho Brings Oldest City Up to Speed

Biking enthusiasts in Palestine have welcomed the construction of the first cycle lane in the Palestinian territories on the main road leading from Jericho...

Brazil’s Easy Taxi App Heads to Egypt and Morocco

Sometimes if you stand on the wrong corner of a busy street in Cairo, taxis will drive right on by, guilt-free, while in less...

New Hybrids on the Horizon for the Middle East

Hybrid cars have had a slow start in the Middle East in comparison to other markets. One factor influencing sales is the fact that...

Qoros Electric Vehicle: China and Israel Partner with USA

After losing the Better Place electric vehicle company, Israel Corporation moved forward with a different holding in the same industry. Qoros Auto Company Ltd., a...

Submarine Rail Linking Morocco and Spain Gets UN Push

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is pushing to revive a thirty year old plan to build a submarine rail link between...

Captain Sunshine Takes Over Better Place Electric Car Company

The Better Place electric vehicle network was always an ambitious dream, and now it doesn't have to die thanks to the man known as...

$10 Recycled Cardboard Bike Indiegogo Campaign Raises Nearly $20,000 in Two Days

When news of a $10 bicycle made of recycled cardboard first reached our desk, we didn't think it would ever see the light of day,...

High Flyers’ Legroom Generates More Emissions

No news that first-class passengers have deeper pockets than economy flyers.  Now the World Bank confirms their carbon footprint is about sevenfold that of...

A Better Place Car Owner on Tesla’s Battery Swap Tech

Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced the “latest” in electric car technology – battery pack swapping for the company’s Model S – to a gushing...

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HelloFresh’s pride prepping ad raises a bigger question: we are we still outsourcing dinner?

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Black fathers live longer than non-fathers, new study

Researchers found that fatherhood was associated with lower rates of early death among Black men, while early fatherhood was linked to poorer long-term health outcomes.

Dan Zaslavsky’s energy tower dream is rising again in Iran and China

The Energy Tower idea never made the leap from drawings and engineering studies to full-scale construction. But nearly two decades after most people stopped talking about it, the concept is quietly evolving in two unexpected places: China and Iran. The concept let dreamers dream and doers do - figuring out more pleasing designs and engineering.

A visit to Amirim, Israel’s first all-vegetarian village in the Galilee

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