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About 50% of the waste in the UAE is organic. A new converter launched at conference aims to reduce this amount by 90% within...

BP to Begin Testing Waterworld Invention on Gulf Oil Spill

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Dropouts Threaten Viability of Israel’s Ashelim Solar Tender

Is the sun setting on Israel's plans to build solar power plants at Ashelim in the Negev Desert? (image via inisrael.com) Clal Industries and...

Hungry Persian Gulf States Look to Mycorrhiza Fungus to Grow Crops in Desert

Bring in the mycorrhiza fungi to help crops grow in the desert, suggests new study for the Middle East. Image via DGSgardening Oil rich Persian...

China and 8 Israel-related Cleantech Headlines, Week of May 9, 2010

Israel and China's cleantech partnership, Better Place, Multimatrix and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech this past week. During the week of May 9th, Israel...

Giving Plants "Jack and the Beanstalk" Protein Power

Looking at the proteins that "talk" between shoot and root of plants, Tel Aviv University unlocks a new tool for the biofuel industry. Plant...

TransAlgae Seeds A Need For Green Feed

The algae for biofuel company TransAlgae is developing a new superbreed of algae for biofuels that is more resistant to the pests and the...

The Limits of Growing Biofuel Crops on a Desert Island

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Abu Dhabi Aims to Halt the Practice of 'Flaring' Natural Gas

The Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO), an offshore division of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), aspires to become the first in...

Si, Si! Spain Looks to Build Solar Thermal Plants in Egypt

Ancient Egyptians built temples to the Sun God Ra. Time for this African nation to reclaim its glory and time in the sun, with...

Solar Power Plants in Italy and the US, Built by China and Israel?

Suntech, the world’s biggest maker of polysilicon solar-power modules from China looks to pair up with Israel Electric Corp on solar-power plants. Image...

MENA Cleantech Sees 'Existential Need' for CSP in Middle East and North Africa

At the MENASOL conference in Cairo last week, MENA Cleantech's Samer Zureikat cited this 11th century scientist, Ibn al-Haytham, as one of the forefathers...

Wind Turbines and 10 Israel-related Cleantech Headlines, Week of May 2, 2010

Israel's wind plan, SolarEdge's Italian partnership, drip irrigation and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech this past week. During the week of May 2,...

C.E.S. Thinks Inside the Box to Save Energy

Israel's C.E.S. box greens your home power use, telling you where faulty appliances are sucking juice from the grid. Like GreenRoads to save fuel...

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Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

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