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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

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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

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America Solar Power Assoc: We’ll be 30% Solar in 20 Years

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Meet the “Miss Pakistan” of Renewable Energy

Natasha Paracha was Miss Pakistan World in 2008. In 2011, she’s using her beauty and smarts to build a sustainable renewable energy climate in...

Using Human Joggers to Generate Energy

Jogging is great exercise for you, and for the batteries that it can power. A friend of mine in college once had a crazy idea...

Algeria to Invest $20 billion USD in renewable energy

Egypt now leads all the MENA nations in attractiveness for renewable energy investment through the EU's Clean Development Mechanism and Morocco - which already has a grid linked up to Europe - has become a key Desertec investment point since announcing its plans to provide 42% of its own electricity from solar, which is by far the most ambitious plan in the world. What's more, as a kingdom, there is no opposition party to sabotage renewable energy as the Republican party does in the US.

Israel to Build $1.3 Billion Solar Project… for China??

A coal utility in Israel and the global leader in solar panel production form a joint project Everybody knows that China is the world leader...

Better Late Than Never, Egypt Takes Control of Mercury Disposal

8 million fluorescent tubes are improperly disposed every year in Egypt, leaching dangerous levels of mercury into the environment. Finally, that seems set to...

Turkish Village Goes Off The Grid With A Wind Turbine

"They're blazing a new path in Turkey" reads the headline over this photo of Akbıyık villagers standing in front of their new wind turbine. The lights...

Cyprus, Israel and Turkey Near “High Noon” Standoff Over Med’s Natural Gas

Turkish PM Erdogan at the UN: His way or no way There's a lot more for southern Cyprus to be alarmed about these days concerning...

Local Wind Energy Industry Emerges In Turkey

Turkey has used wind energy for more than ten years now, but never from locally developed and produced wind turbines. That's about to change. In...

Steven Jobs –– An Environmentalist And A Computer Genius

Steven Jobs and iPhone: a genius and an environmentalist. Steven Paul Jobs finally met up against a challenge at age 56 that he simply could...

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