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Are ESLs A Mercury-Free Replacement for CFL Lights?

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Going Bananas Over Food Miles – Putting the Eco Back in Economics

Food miles explained: I know the best option is to grow and buy locally.  But when that isn't possible, what is the least worse option? It...

Sustainable Architecture In The Middle East – Interview with Karim Elgendy

We speak to Karim Elgendy, founder of the Middle East sustainability initiative 'Carboun' about what motivates his work and why green ratings for buildings...

Tektuğ Elektrik Group Enters Turkey’s Expanding Wind Energy Sector

German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex will construct eleven 2.5 MW turbines for the Tektuğ Elektrik Group's first wind project. This autumn, on a mountain ridge...

Egyptian Researchers Aim to Clear Landmines Using Bacteria and Plants

Egyptians researchers believe that sugar beets like those pictured above can help to clear the country's stockpile of land mines. 20% of the world's land...

Time to Drink Water From Air Con Units

Water from air! AC water conversion and treatment unit illustration. Photo: Watergen Ltd A while ago I wrote about the possibility of creating drinking or agricultural...

5 Technologies to Make Desalination More Efficient

People who live in Mideastern coastal cities might understand the despair expressed in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "Water, water every...

A Real Live Solar City Shines in Israel

A town in the Jezreel Valley, Israel prefers its weather sunny, and not only for clear blue skies and golden sunshine. Over 70 percent of...

Eilat Energy Conference Aims to Green A Desert And A Country

Israel's vast and dry southern Negev desert may actually help the country go green and just in time for the country's 2020 10% renewables...

US Researchers Clean Waste Water & Create Energy in One Generator

This machine cleans waste water and generates energy at the same time. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have developed technology that treats waste water and...

CleanTech Group and WWF Name Israel as 2nd Top Cleantech Producer

Israel tops the global clean tech charts once again! A recent report compiled by Cleantech Group and the World Wildlife Fund shows that Israel is...

How Pink LEDs Grow Future Food with 90% Less Water

10,000 years after inventing agriculture, will we 7 billion take this strange next step?

Israeli Turbo Composter Makes Home Composting Easy

Do you keep a covered bucket in the kitchen for the organic garbage? If you do, you know only too well how awful it...

Epic Sahara Forest Project Unveils Plans For a Pilot Plant in Qatar

Two fertilizer companies are funding R&D of cutting edge agricultural and energy innovations at a new pilot plant in Qatar. The Sahara Forest Project was...

Lebanese Goat Farmer Goes Solar, Subverts Government’s Green Apathy

A solar-powered goat farm in Lebanon now enjoys clean energy around the clock while the rest of the country sits in darkness for up...

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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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