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Boutique Solar Panels Fit For Mosques, Pipelines and Airports

Naps Systems Oy, a Finnish solar panel company is providing boutique solar panel services to the Middle East. They mix aesthetics, quality and service...

Arava Power Company Signs Solar Deals with Negev Bedouins

A kibbutz company in Israel leases 100 acres of land off of Bedouins in the Negev Desert to plant new solar panel project. ...

BrightView's Inline Quality Control "X-Ray" for Solar Panel Manufacturers

It's like an X-ray machine for solar panel quality control. For hybrid cars, wind power, and solar energy technology, there's more than just creative...

GreenRoad and 9 Israel-Related Headlines, Week of June 15, 2010

Natural gas in Israel, desalination plants, a new Palestinian-Israeli wind venture and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech and the environment. Image via GreenRoad. During...

New Wind Venture Seen as Bridge of Peace Across the Green Line

Representatives of Israeli and Palestinian partner companies pose after reaching agreement on joint venture for wind power.  (Courtesy photo) Cynics might say that diplomatic attempts...

Potato Power Fires Up Organic Battery

Can Mr. Potatohead outrun the Energizer Bunny? Researchers in Israel and California develop a potato battery, 50 times cheaper than the Energizer equivalent. Here's...

Clean Rivers and 8 Israel-Related Headlines, Week of June 8, 2010

Clean rivers in Israel, youth environmental projects, Israel's upcoming greenhouse gas registry and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech and the environment. Image by...

Lots of ‘Ifs’ – But Afghan Mineral Reserves Offer Hope for the War-torn Country (and for the Electric Car Industry)

Afghanistan's desolate Ghazni Province may hold the world’s largest deposits of lithium. (Image: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) Just days after the Afghan War became...

Heat pumps and cleantech in Helsinki, Finland

Other areas for business development, partnership and expertise? Processing forest product waste (which comes from the pulp and paper industry) –– in bio-diesel, Finland’s Neste has built the biggest renewable energy plant in Singapore for certified palm oil. And st1, another company, can efficiently create bio-ethanol from the food industry with end products going to farms as feedstock.

MENA Geothermal Powers West Bank Palestine Geothermally

With a burgeoning population and no natural resources to provide energy, Palestine has found a hero in MENA Geothermal. In a world where natural...

Cycling for Peace as Israeli Arabs, Jews and Bedouins Kids Get Free Bikes and Clubs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43mUeMB_Go&feature=player_embedded The Bedouin village of Um Bateen, just outside Beersheba in southern Israel, has no paved roads - which makes it the perfect place for...

Tigo Energy and 8 Israel-Related Headlines, Week of June 1, 2010

Alternative energy contracts with the US, Israel-Turkey relations, growing Israel-China business ties and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech. Image via Tigo...

Masdar Awards $600 Million Contract for ‘World’s Largest’ Thermal Solar Plant in UAE

The United Arab Emirates's Shams 1 project will incorporate hundreds of parabolic trough collectors. (Image via Solar Thermal Magazine) Abu Dhabi’s Masdar clean energy company has...

Ormat Set to Release Alaska's Geothermal Energy Potential

With dwindling natural gas reserves, will South Alaska be powered with geothermal energy? Ormat may be the first to open Alaskan territories, still virgin...

Volcano and Hurricane Damages Ormat's Guatemala Geothermal Plant, Minimal Damage and No Lives Lost

How geothermal energy wells look, and work. Image via Academic.evergreen With contacts and plants in place around the world, Ormat founded in Israel and headquartered...

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One of the World’s Biggest Candy Companies Became a Leader in Cocoa Science

Most people know Mars for M&M's and Snickers. Few realize the company has spent four decades researching cocoa flavanols and sustainable cocoa science. After six days testing CocoaVia with pioneers of Toronto's raw food movement, Green Prophet explores the surprising story behind one of the world's most researched cocoa supplements.

Sustainable Manufacturing Frameworks Reducing Waste in Heavy Industry

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The Lost Art of Jewish Herbalism: How Plants, Memory and Diaspora Kept a Living Tradition Alive

Jewish herbalism is experiencing a revival as educators like Naomi Spector uncover centuries of plant knowledge preserved through the diaspora. Blending the wisdom of Maimonides, Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, and remedies passed from generation to generation, this forgotten ecological heritage reveals how Jewish communities adapted to new landscapes while keeping their cultural identity rooted in the natural world.

Finding Your Sea Legs Aboard the Neptun of Marstal

The Neptun of Marstal is more than a restored Danish sailing ship. Operated as a non-profit sail-training organization, it invites people of all ages to swap screens for sails, learn traditional seamanship and discover how caring for the sea begins by experiencing it firsthand. Along the way, strangers become crewmates, old maritime skills are kept alive, and the voyage offers a powerful lesson in environmental stewardship, cooperation and the enduring value of learning by doing.

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One of the World’s Biggest Candy Companies Became a Leader in Cocoa Science

Most people know Mars for M&M's and Snickers. Few realize the company has spent four decades researching cocoa flavanols and sustainable cocoa science. After six days testing CocoaVia with pioneers of Toronto's raw food movement, Green Prophet explores the surprising story behind one of the world's most researched cocoa supplements.

Sustainable Manufacturing Frameworks Reducing Waste in Heavy Industry

Hydraulic systems are at the heart of heavy manufacturing, but poor maintenance can lead to fluid leaks, downtime, and unnecessary waste. By focusing on preventive maintenance, fluid monitoring, filtration, and early leak detection, industrial facilities can improve efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and strengthen sustainable manufacturing without major capital investments.

The Lost Art of Jewish Herbalism: How Plants, Memory and Diaspora Kept a Living Tradition Alive

Jewish herbalism is experiencing a revival as educators like Naomi Spector uncover centuries of plant knowledge preserved through the diaspora. Blending the wisdom of Maimonides, Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, and remedies passed from generation to generation, this forgotten ecological heritage reveals how Jewish communities adapted to new landscapes while keeping their cultural identity rooted in the natural world.

Finding Your Sea Legs Aboard the Neptun of Marstal

The Neptun of Marstal is more than a restored Danish sailing ship. Operated as a non-profit sail-training organization, it invites people of all ages to swap screens for sails, learn traditional seamanship and discover how caring for the sea begins by experiencing it firsthand. Along the way, strangers become crewmates, old maritime skills are kept alive, and the voyage offers a powerful lesson in environmental stewardship, cooperation and the enduring value of learning by doing.

Canada’s Beluga Rescue Is No Free Willy. Those Whales Will Never Go Home.

Six beluga whales have begun leaving Canada's shuttered Marineland, but they aren't returning to the wild. Here's why the park closed and where the whales are going.

What Qualities Help Nurses Thrive in Their Careers?

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Different Types of Hair Loss Treatments Explained

efore exploring treatments, it helps to understand why hair falls. Hair loss isn't one condition — it has different causes, and those causes affect which treatments actually work.

Dead Sea Scroll mystery may be solved by a calendar that lost touch with the seasons

The 364-day calendar did not disappear entirely. Instead, it may have survived as an ideal: a memory of perfect time at Creation and perhaps a calendar to be restored in the End of Days.
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