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Palestinians Attempt to Build Secret Renewable Energy Plants

Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta who do not have access to the electrical grid have been developing home grown renewable energy plants. Palestinians living in...

DIY solar panels made from grass

MIT researchers say that soon all we'll need to harvest our vast solar resource is grass and stabilizing powder.  While Masdar and Suntech and other...

Army Sewage Irrigates Nature Park in Israel

Oxygen aerators at Israel's IDF Nevatim Air Force Base are purifying sewage water for irrigation use. Photo: Trlabarge/Wikipedia Many modern armies are now practicing clean technology...

Put a Zebra in Your Tank: A Chemical Crapshoot?

Making alcohol from sugars is easy; maybe the third oldest profession in the world. Making butanol from zebra droppings is another story. Processors have made...

New Cooling Lagoons Could Save the Gulf’s Marine Enviornment

Crystal Lagoons has developed an alternative cooling and energy harvesting system for power plants that doesn't require the use of seawater. Gulf countries that lack...

4 Desertec Deals That Make Our Energy Future More Secure

In just six hours, the deserts receive more energy from the sun than humankind produces in a year, and Desertec is harnessing it. Right now...

Better Place Puts 100 Electric Cars on Israeli Roads

Better Place Renault Fluence electric cars hit the road on way to customers After more than four years in the making, media reports and hype,...

Masdar Visionary Tells the Untold Story

Ziad Tassabehji is one of the most influential men in the new green Middle East. Until now he's kept pretty quiet about his involvement...

Canada’s Greensoil Invests in Israel Cleantech

Greensoil, an investment firm from Canada will fund Israeli agritech companies with a reported $12 million. Cash from Canada will be funding clean technology...

6 Hot Solar Projects from the Middle East and North Africa

We have listed 6 big and small solar-powered projects in the MENA region that have inspired us in the hopes that it will do...

Ethiopia’s New Solar-Powered Cell Phone Charging & Water Service

Villagers gather around a kiosk in Afto, Ethiopia to charge their cell phones using solar power and to fill up their jerry cans with...

AORA’s Solar Sun Tulip Says Ola Sol in Spain

With a 35 meter high sun-ray collection tower and about 50 mirrors positioned to direct the sun, Israel's AORA is about to flip the...

Masdar and Siemens Team Up to Develop Sand-Resistant Solar Panels

Solar panels at the Kuraymat CSP planet in Egypt require precious water resources to stay clean but Masdar & Siemens aim to change that. When...

Water Filter Uses Bacteria Beads to Eat Nitrates

Low tech water filters loaded with a nitrate-munching bacterium help clean up fertilizers and feces in water waste. Rainstorms wash away what nature can't clean...

Nanosolar’s Ultra Thin Solar Panels Could Go East

By being longer, Nanosolar's solar panels are less costly to install Advances in solar energy panel technology is reaching a stage where it is now...

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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

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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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