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MENA Geothermal’s Largest System in the Middle East is Complete

MENA Geothermal has completed the largest geothermal heating and cooling system in the Middle East and North Africa. Completed in August, 2012, the new...

Largest Palestinian Hospital to Get Wind Power from Europe

A West Bank hospital gets wind powered with 700 kw. Few things are as deadly as a hospital without power, but a new wind turbine...

CEBC Maps 150 Clean Energy Projects in North Africa and the Middle East

If knowledge generates power, then the Clean Energy Business Council (CEBC) based in Abu Dhabi's Masdar City intends to make the Middle East and North...

Israeli Innovator Dr. Daniel Hillel wins UN World Food Prize

Dr. Hillel was honored for his work in microirrigation, an innovative irrigation method that applies water in small, continuous amounts directly to plants. Many traditional methods of irrigation, including soaking fields during a region’s wet season and allowing them to dry out during the arid season, are relatively inefficient in both crop productivity and water conservation.

Morocco University Excited Over First Wind-hydrogen System Installation

Training, teaching and researching the wind: Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane gets Africa's first wind-hydrogen system. Morocco's renewable energy push received yet another boost last week with...

Israel Chemicals AquaTabs to Purify Syria’s Dirty Water

A deal was brokered over the weekend that will allow a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals to sell water purification tablets that will be used...

Bahrain Announces 5 MW Solar Power Entrance

Bahrain, a small island country situated near the western shores of the Persian Gulf, has lagged behind other Gulf region countries in developing its clean...

Green Education in the United Arab Emirates, Business is Booming

The Bee'ah School of Environment (BSOE), an education initiative created by a United Arab Emirates-based environmental and waste management company, recently announced it is...

Water-Producing Eole Wind Turbine Has Gulf States Drooling

Eole Water from France has developed a water-producing wind turbine and Gulf states are drooling at the jowls to have at least one of...

Abu Dhabi’s Shams 100 MW CSP Solar Power Plant To Switch On … Soon

Shams 1 will displace 175,000 tons of CO2 per year and its power output will be enough to power 20,000 homes. Abu Dhabi’s push into clean energy is...

Awesome Eco Future Exhibit in Abu Dhabi Teaches Kids the ABCs of Green Living

Eco Future is an engaging interactive exhibit on Al Saadiyat Island that teaches children the ABCs of going green in Abu Dhabi. Partially modeled after...

Holy Mecca Will Be Saudi’s First Solar City

Saudi Arabia’s government has confirmed that it will develop and build a $640 million solar power plant in the holy city of Mecca. It...

Egypt Cuts Tax and Open Land to New Renewable Energy Investments

A flailing Egypt still aims for 20 percent renewables by 2020. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Energy last week pushed forward a new round of...

Urban Kibbutz Reels in Rooftop Solar Investment in Israel

An urban kibbutz in sun-drenched southern Israel invested in a field of rooftop solar panels that are already pumping out more energy than the...

Morocco’s Hydroelectric, Wind and Solar on Track for 2020’s 42% Green Goal

Saudi Arabia gives Morocco a sunny boost, but Joseph looks at Morocco's bigger renewable energy picture: an aim to use 42% renewables by 2020. With...

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Meet Seramic Materials from Abu Dhabi

Based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Seramic Materials was founded in 2019 by Dr. Nicolas Calvet and Dr. Jean-François Hoffmann, researchers working at the intersection of renewable energy and materials science. The company grew out of the Masdar Institute ecosystem and is supported by clean tech programs like The Catalyst, with early backing of around $150,000 and more than $2 million invested in research and development over time.

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24 7 renewable energy: how solar, wind, batteries and AI SaaS replace fossil fuels

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu Dhabi makes something clear that many in the industry already suspected. When solar and wind are paired with battery storage, they can deliver reliable, round the clock electricity at costs that compete with, and often beat, fossil fuels.

A summer of sugar wax or time for laser treatments? The environmental answer

Green Prophet readers know we write a lot about hair. We have covered the halal and the haram sides of hair removal for Muslims. We have written about sugar waxing, Persian sugaring, threading, and the beauty secrets that came out of the Middle East long before salons started calling them trends. Our articles on sugar wax broke the internet a few times. 

Make paper mache with flowers to create stunning vase

There’s something quietly beautiful about what Rebloom Studio is doing, and it starts with waste. At wholesale flower markets, mountains of unsold blooms are tossed out at the end of each cycle. Perfect flowers, just not sold in time. Most of them are burned or dumped. Rebloom takes that moment and turns it into something else.
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