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In teddy bears, iPhones and baby sleep monitors: turn off those LED lights at night before they affect your sleep cycles and health! Professor Abraham...

Solar-Powered Doomsday Clock Counts Down to 12-21-2012

Designers from Israel hope to install a solar-powered doomsday clock in Times Square, where it will count down to 12-21-2012. Using cutting-edge technology, including...

Peak Helium – Is the Party Over for this Resource?

Silver, gold, oil, stocks, bonds, real estate!  I won't pretend to know more than the investment experts, but many people lost a lot of...

Inflatable Solar Canopy to Power the Arabian Peninsula?

MIT student Otto Ng proposes to solar-power the Arabian peninsula with more than 10,000 square kilometers of Powerscape - a tensile solar-collecting canopy comprised...

Google Doodle Salutes Razi – the Persian Father of Modern Bedside Manners

Google does it again: sliding big history lessons into my idle internet surfing. This week in Jordan, the Google image was of Middle Eastern pharmacist, physician and alchemist,...

Israel’s Sol Chip adds Solar Power to Microchips

Sol Chip's technology will allow small devices to run indefinitely without replacing and disposing of those silly lithium batteries. A tale of two wafers: Both begin...

Saphonian Blade-less Wind Turbines Save Birds and Energy

While solar advancements continue apace, wind energy technology has remained fairly stagnant over the years, making it in most cases less viable than fossil...

Jerusalem Gets New Environment Science Study Center

A new 2,000-square-meter facility in Jerusalem will be devoted to the study of sustainability. It will be an academic institution from the Council for a...

Arab Israeli Yafa Energy Plans to Solar Power Traditional Industry

Yafa Energy could be a bridge over which Arab-Israeli technology finds its way to industries in the Arab world seeking renewable energy solutions. Eureka!...

Green Miner Pulls Minerals from Desalination’s Seawater Brine

This new approach uses bacteria to mine sulphur and magnesium from desalination's polluting brine.  Desalination’s no golden ticket to creating water for the Middle...

Tarfaya: Africa’s Largest Wind Farm in Morocco is a Go

Africa's largest wind farm to date is slated to begin construction as soon as a long-delayed financing agreement is completed, according to Wind Power Monthly. Morocco's...

Solar Panel App Angles Your Investment to Catch the Best of the Sun

This new app from the UK helps solar panel installers the world over choose the best location on your property for installing solar panels.  Investing...

6 Facebook Tips to Grow Your Blog in the Middle East

When I first took over Green Prophet's Facebook page, we had just over 1,000 likes. That was about one year ago. Now we have...

Tigi Solar Honeycombs Keep You Warm in Cold Climates

Israeli solar thermal collectors made like honeycombs trap more heat from the sun to heat homes in cold countries like Germany. Israel is the...

Jo’Preneurs Sheds Light on Bright Ideas

I considered myself an entrepreneur at the age of 15, when I set up shop on the cobblestone streets across my dad’s apartment on...

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