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‘Queen of Mean’ Leona Helmsley’s Trust to Fund Solar Energy Research in Israel

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German Giant Siemens is Selling Off Solel and its Solar Assets

This is big news in the solar world: German giant Siemens, which recently unveiled photographs of its new headquarters in Masdar City, has recently...

Gaza’s First Recycling Plant Opens and Not a Minute Too Soon

Stock image of trash dump, Shutterstock. Gaza produces roughly 1,000 pounds of waste every day and until now most of it has gone untreated. But...

One Meter High ‘Shattel-Power’ Wind Turbine to Power Jordan Households

The jury on the Stars of Science  reality TV show proved that the "Shattel-Power" vertical wind turbine is not as efficient as its designer Mahmoud Shattel...

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

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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...

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Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

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Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

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