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This “Green Machine” mobile city fertilizes the Sahara Desert as it moves

Posterity may end up migrating from place to place to find food like our nomadic ancestors did if we don’t get a hold of desertification and climate change. To make that easier for desert dwellers, Stephane Malka and Yachar Bouhaya propose the Green Machine – a massive city on tank treads that fertilizes the Sahara […]

March 25, 2014Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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The mailman is a drone in this Middle East country [video]

Some countries like Canada are trying to say goodbye to human-delivered postal mail forever. But a new initiative from the United Arab Emirates puts a little 21st Century technology into the old mail carrier.

February 10, 2014Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Wind-powered Tumbleweed robot rolls back encroaching deserts

Desertification has gobbled up huge swaths of the Middle East and North Africa, a fact that Jerusalem-based industrial designer Shlomi Mir knows all too well. So he designed Tumbleweed Desert – a rolling robot capable of spending many solitary years in the desert gathering data aimed at slowing encroaching deserts.

February 10, 2014Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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SodaStream stock rises as Scarlett Johansson’s banned ad sizzles (video)

Israel’s do-it-yourself (and environmentally friendly) soft drink maker SodaStream may go down in the record books as having created the most provocative Super Bowl commercial that never aired on TV, but it’s having a hell of an afterlife on YouTube, racking up over 11 million views since its Monday release.

February 7, 2014Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Hybrid solar electric oven SunFocus cooks with or without the sun

Solar ovens are great, and we’ve seen a lot of them. But they are limited since they only work when it’s actually sunny. Sun BD Group has bridged that shortfall with a new hybrid solar electric oven that can whip up a great meal at any time of day and under any conditions.

February 6, 2014Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Practical Solar Powered Innovations for Developing Countries

Solar energy projects for developing countries in Africa and the Middle East MENA Region have often been put on the backburner due to financial considerations as well as lack of attention by local government bodies. Whether it has involved sophisticated solar “farms” or small solar devices for barefoot Bedouin women,  more attention is being focused […]

January 22, 2014Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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GE Opens Ecomagination Clean Tech Hub in Masdar City

There’s something so satisfying about watching the seed of an idea turn into something real – like GE’s Ecomagination Center unveiled at Masdar City outside of Abu Dhabi today.

January 15, 2014Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Aquaponics is farming with a fishing rod in Israel

Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for the day. Give him a fishing rod and feed him for life. New Israeli proverb: Give a man a fishing rod and a hydroponics farm, and you give him food and sustainable income for life. The new Israeli proverb could be summed up […]

December 29, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Oggii dog collar device lets you know if pet is happy and healthy

“After we break the ice, we can bark,” says Yonatan Dror, CEO of a new Israeli pet chip monitor company called Oggii. This would sound like a weird proposition if Dror hadn’t first developed a company that attempted to decode the secret language of dogs.

December 29, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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World’s longest undersea water pipeline uniting Turkey to Cyprus

Turkey has started constructing what will be the world’s longest undersea water pipeline. The 107 kilometer pipe will draw water from the Dragon River and unite the Turkish mainland with northern Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. Proponents are hoping it will unify the island, divided for the past 39 years.

December 21, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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WakaWaka’s Solar for Syria gives refugees energy and light [video]

Nearly 7 million people have fled their homes to escape the violence in Syria, and 2 million refugees in Jordan and Lebanon face a wet, cold winter with nothing – not even a safe lamp to light their way. Which is why WakaWaka launched the Solar for Syria campaign.

December 20, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Open source prefab bee hive helps the masses protect our pollinators [video]

Enlisting the masses to save the bees, Open Tech Forever has developed a high tech CNC-cut hive that allows global citizens to keep an eye on our precious pollinators.

December 13, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Step back Amazon drones, Amazon rockets will deliver packages in 5 minutes or less [video]

Amazon’s drones are expected to deliver packages within 30 minutes, but they’ll also clog the skies, make a terrible noise, and encourage even more excessive consumerism. Zach King’s hilarious spoof video explores the issues with Amazon rockets that will “deliver packages in five minutes or less.”

December 9, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Farmville in the real world as Israel puts Agritech’s IT into agriculture

Following a United Nations bill that Israel had proposed last week to allow a smoother flow of agricultural technologies into the developing world, Israel is now launching the what it is calling the Facebook or Wikipedia of agricultural technologies.

December 8, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Rootility Wins Agrivest Agtech Event in Israel

How low can you grow wasn’t the motto of yesterday’s Agrivest conference and startup contest in Tel Aviv, but it could work for Rootility. The non-GMO solution wowed local and international guests at an event that brought out decision makers and investors from some of the world’s biggest seed and food companies.

December 4, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Cell Buddy Promises One SIM for Calls Throughout the Universe

With the global village getting smaller every day, it starts to become inconceivable that our access to the Internet and local phone calls require a complicated network and chip change every time we cross borders. A new chip, developed by Israeli engineers hopes to change that. 

December 2, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Egypt Recycling Gets $340,000 Boost from Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak sold roughly 1.625 billion packages in Egypt in 2011, of which only 20 percent were recycled. That’s a lot of untreated waste, but now the company has pledged $340,000 to boost the country’s recycling capacity. They want to make their business more sustainable. 

November 28, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Israel’s Mapal Promotes Peace by Treating Palestinian Sewage

Finding a solution to the problem of raw sewage reclamation in rural Palestinian communities continues to be an ongoing issue. A new peace project between an Israeli treatment company Mapal Green Energy and the Palestinian Authority could sweeten tensions behind a stinky problem. 

November 18, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Israeli Firm to Mine Dutch Sewers for the New Gold

Israel’s Applied CleanTech has found a way to turn sewers into gold mines, and now the company has signed an agreement with a Dutch wastewater treatment facility (WWTP) and paper mill to test its revolutionary Sewage Recycling System (SRS).

November 6, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Polluting the Final Frontier With Space Junk

With space labs, astronaut gloves and even a toothbrush floating in space, is there no limits to where we’ve flung our junk? Thirty-four years ago the charred remains of a spaceship fell to earth. The spaceship was named Skylab and it was the last orbiting remnant of NASA’s grandiose Apollo era when Saturn V moon rockets […]

October 28, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Israel’s Nova Lumos puts solar power into off-grid African communities

It’s hard to imagine the concept of a “power pimp” in Africa unless you have lived there. But it makes sense and cents on a continent that lacks a unified power system. There is basically no electric power in most rural places unless you are enterprising enough to own a battery and generator of some […]

October 24, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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Israel’s Kaiima Seed-Tech Company Raises $65 Million

Since the Sixties “green revolution,” when Norman Borlaug introduced the concept of cross-breeding and hybridization of plants to boost output, not much has changed, according to Doron Gal, CEO of the Israeli seed technology company Kaiima Agro-Biotech. Kaiima, which means “sustainability” in Hebrew, hopes to be that change.

October 22, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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GreenIQ Waters Your Garden by Phone

Smart phone developers aren’t just devising novel ways to deliver information about composting and how to save energy (like 5 green apps that can save the planet). They are helping us run our homes. 

October 21, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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King Tut’s Jewelry Reveals Ancient Comet Diamond Dust

King Tutankhamen’s tomb continues to give up its secrets. This time it reveals something about a past far more ancient than the life and death of this boy-king some 3300 years ago. 

October 20, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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IKEA Sells Solar Panel Kits Directly to Home Owners

Move over Billy bookcases and Ektorp sofas because something more earth-friendly is about to be sold at IKEA. This Swedish-owned big box company is finally making some common sense for the planet: the company’s UK chain of otherwise throwaway furniture, will begin selling flat pack solar panel kits to its UK customers.

October 1, 2013Green Tech and Gadgets Read more
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