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Home Kits to Capture the Sun from Roofs of Private Homes

Complete kits are now available for installing home solar energy systems

Green Prophet at Desertec Conference in Cairo

Desertec is a $500 billion solar project to catch Middle East and Africa sun. Tafline is currently at the Desertec Dii conference in Cairo,...

A Mixed Bag For Israel’s Cleantech

With inconsistent messages to investors and the public, Israel to create a national plan for renewable energy. Even as Israel's cabinet approved a national action...

Desertec Begins: 500 MW Moroccan Solar in 2012

"Deserts get more energy in six hours than the world's population consumes in a year" - TREC I remember when Desertec was dismissed as a...

EneR Morocco is Window to Maghreb’s Shiny Energy Potential

The free EneR event is a networking and investment platform for those interested in Morocco's renewable energy markets happening later this month in Casablanca. Morocco...

Water Hackathon in Cairo and Tel Aviv

As the dust of revolution settles in Egypt, the country is beginning to face some of its other challenges. Chief among these is a...

Find Green Prophet at the 2nd Annual DII Conference in Cairo

Green Prophet is crossing the desert in a bus to attend one of the most important renewable energy conferences on earth. Green Prophet is...

Mountains of Toxic E-Waste in Pakistan Are a Goldmine

Thousands of tons of electronic waste are dumped in Pakistan each year, creating a hazard, and a mountain of opportunities for recyclers. Nobody knows for...

World Bank Supports Turkey-Built 56.4 MW Wind Project in Pakistan

With crippling floods every year and regular power outages, a new internationally financed wind project in Pakistan is breezy green news to us. Iran,...

Nominate Your Green Prophet Eco Hero for 2011

Green Prophet launches the Green Prophet Eco Hero 11 Award for 2011. Who are your eco-heros for the Middle East and North Africa region? With...

Earth Summit Initiators Prepping in Israel Today

Israeli leaders have started hosting a preparatory meeting for the 2012 Earth Summit (Rio + 20), the UN Conference for Sustainable Development, to be...

Iran Forgets India and Keeps Pitching Peace Pipeline to Pakistan

Iran, becoming more isolated appeals to Pakistan to move ahead with natural gas "peace pipeline." Saboteurs have already had their say in the idea....

Iran’s Islamic Regime Aims to Be Solar Supreme by 2015

5000 MW by 2015? Iran wants to launch the largest solar power plant in the Middle East. A solar plant is in the works...

Gaddafi’s Great Man Made River Follow

The Great Man Made River: 70 percent of Libya's fresh water comes from it. Muammar Gaddafi, the eccentric strongman of Libya for more than 42...

8 Israeli Companies Win Global Cleantech Award for 2011

Israeli clean tech innovators comprise 8 percent of the world's best clean tech companies according to this 2011 award. It's the third year running...

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AI may unintentionally become the economic engine that finally modernizes America’s aging grid. California is experiencing a massive AI data center boom, ranking 3rd in the U.S. with 227 operating centers and 54 more in development as of April 2026, according to Stanford.

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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