Transportation

Traffic Accident Fatalities in Iran: the Statistics and Causes

Iran's high fatality rate is usually attributed to cultural attitudes towards road rules, and poor safety facilities. Driving cars can be a hazardous affair. Traffic...

Car Talk With the “Driving Dutchman” Highlights Many Green Auto Issues

Testing Better Place Taxi in Tokyo. Will Taxi drivers go for only 130 km per charge? Jerusalem's Rusty Mike Radio station is relatively new to...

Oman’s Noor Majan builds electric car

April fool's in Oman in August? The mystery Omani EV is purportedly going to run 2,250 miles on one charge. This may be just...

Why China Will be Tipping Point for EVs – Interview With Better Place’s Mike Granoff

Cars cause more greenhouse emissions than planes, Cleantechnica reports earlier this month. So while it may be important to offset and reduce our flying habits,...

Only 1 in 25 Emiratis Use Their Legs to Walk

Legs? Who needs them when you can drive. Maybe this is why diabetes rates in the Gulf region are among the highest in the...

Keeping Public Trains on Track

A new research project aims to create an early warning system to save lives of people who take the train. Trains are one of favourite...

The Middle East Can Only Drool Over Tesla's Electric Sports Roadsters

Tesla Model S Coupe: Expensive bang for your bucks. The Middle East can only drool for now. Tesla electric sports roadsters floated a successful IPO...

The Difficulties of Developing Cycling Routes in Iranian Cities

Tehran has bikes routes in place, but people aren't using them because they're needed in dense urban cores. We all know about the importance...

Greenie Wants YOU to Become a Bicycle Courier in Tel Aviv

Ever dreamed about becoming a cycling courier?  Forget delivering the newspaper, Greenie is here to help. Tel Aviv is no stranger to cycling, and...

On Cycling and Two-Wheeler Tourism in Israel, from EcoBike's Tomer Zaksenberg

EcoBike's Tomer Zaksenberg tells us to get our pedals turning in Israel and beyond. Cycling is booming in Israel, both as an alternative, eco-friendly form...

Tesla Motors IPO Races Through Abu Dhabi, But Is the EV Practical?

Faster than a Ferrari, cleaner than a Prius, Tesla's EV roadster is only $100,000: Is this reason for Tesla's high IPO result? Tesla Motors, already...

Electric Cars Are Coming – Are Israelis Ready For Them?

Better Place electric taxi debuts in Tokyo. Is Tel Aviv next? Maurice volunteers himself to be the company's test driver. Israel's debut with...

Palestine’s First Solar Power Electric Car Takes to the Streets of Hebron

The Palestinian electric car isn't much to look at, and it couldn't carry a large Arab family, but it is solar powered! Just when we...

Israel Becomes A Nation of Pedalers (Cycling Freaks)

You can lose your life cycling on the roads in Israel. Almost once a month, a cyclist gets killed by a car by a...

Fast Forward Asks, "What is the Best Mode for Public Transportation in Lebanon?"

A bicycle?  A train?  A bus? What is the best mode of public transportation for Lebanon? Fast Forward, the organization that led a protest...

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The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

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

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Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

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. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

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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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