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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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