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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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Flip America’s Cup Loss Into an Environmental Win: Here’s How

The 2013 America's cup will be long remembered as one of the closest matches in sailing history and one of the most unlikely comebacks...

Joshua Tree Light Pollution Dims BrightSource Energy’s 500MW Palen Solar Project

Slated for a site 36 miles west of Blythe, California, the 500MW Palen Solar Plant - a collaborative project between BrightSource Energy and Abengoa...

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Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

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Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology.

Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.

First ever recorded humpback whale recording found from 1949

Unlike most recordings from this era, which were lost as early media deteriorated, the audograph discs survived and appear to have been uniquely used for underwater sound — making them a rare, possibly singular example of early ocean listening preserved from the dawn of marine acoustics.
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