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Objet Technologies Prints Your Veneers Using 3D Technology

Imagine having teeth like these printed while you wait... thanks to Object Geometries Ltd., that might not be such a futuristic idea. Gone are the...

Leviathan Energy To Dedicate Wind Turbine To Hilton Hotel

Leviathan Energy will donate a small wind turbine in honor of Earth Day 2011. In honor of Earth Day, Israel's Leviathan Energy will dedicate a...

BrightSource Solar Raises Another $122 Million

Israeli Solar energy company BrightSource is the child, but the real father of solar thermal technology. SEC filings show BrightSource Energy Inc has raised...

This Year’s US/Israel Venture Summit: Where Capital Lifts Innovation Off The Ground

Great ideas are just that without the capital to get them off the ground. The 5th annual US/Israel Venture Summit provides opportunities for cash-strapped...

Massachusetts Governor Firms Up Ties With Israel’s Cleantech Superpowers

Governor Deval Patrick tour through Israel and the UK is aimed at fostering stronger "green" partnerships. During a ten day trip that commenced in Israel on...

“If I Die” Lets Facebook Prepare A Video Clip Launched At Death

If you had one last thing to say to your Facebook friends, what would it be? Adding to Christmas lists and New Year's resolutions, we...

Were Tesla’s Solar Innovations “Buried” by Big Oil?

Free electricity from lightning? Nikola Tesla thought so. Even though I grew up in America, where many of this man's inventions were brainstormed,...

Did GlassPoint Get the Glass House Idea in the Middle East?

In the deserts with the best solar insolation in the world, dust and drought are also the greatest enemy. GlassPoint is pioneering the solution...

What is the Future of MENA Solar With the Region in Chaos?

There are more reasons than ever to attend MENASOL 2011, with the current unrest raising questions One particular - and now very topical - public...

Israeli-Funded EVida Gets 50,000 Battery Order from Mia Electric

Lithium-iron-phosphate batteries being built in Israel by the two year-old battery start-up EVida will power small but practical and freeway-capable electric cars built ...

Could Saudi Arabia Become the Saudi Arabia of Solar?

Middle East to Become a $90 Billion a Year Solar Exporter? A report from international energy consultants AT Kearney, quoted in the The Saudi, said that the oil-rich Middle East has the potential to become a solar "boom center" within ten years, creating 100,000 jobs and able to export $90 billion a year from solar projects.

Leviathan and Solaris Synergy Imagine if the Water for the Shower Can Make the Energy Needed to Turn on the Light

Israel powers up a new round of EUREKA grants - two make electricity from municipal water supplies A €33 million fund to help fuel...

SolarPower for Small Portable Solar Grids Virtually Anywhere

Smaller "stand alone" solar power plants may work better than larger more costly ones One of the issues regarding the widespread use of solar energy...

Israel Cleantech Intelligence: Renewable Energy and 6 Headlines

Cleantech funding, California's interest in Israeli technology, IDE's latest desal plant deal in China, and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech and the environment. During...

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GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are changing more than waistlines. Fashion researcher Katie Baker Jones explains how weight-loss drugs could reshape clothing sizes, body positivity, textile consumption and the fashion industry.

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Plastic bottles remain one of the most stubborn forms of ocean pollution, according to new results from Ocean Conservancy’s 2025 International Coastal Cleanup, the massive volunteer effort that removes and records trash from beaches and waterways around the world.
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