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Capstone and Israel's HelioFocus Get Grants To Fire Up Solar Powered Micro-Turbines

Captsone's microturbine could be fired up by solar power in new project with Heliofocus. California based Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ:CPST) and Israel based HelioFocus...

Masdar and Partners To Undergo Solar PV Feasibility Study in Abu Dhabi's Masdar City

Masdar starts testing feasibility of solar energy at eco city. Will Abu Dhabi's dust let the sunshine in? Abu Dhabi's Future Energy  Company, Masdar,  and Spain's...

California's PG&E Looks to Invest up to $1.5 Billion in BrightSource and Alt Energy Plants

PG&E says it will more than a billion in alternative energy projects. California's mega utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is keen on using...

Toronto's Stock Exchange Courts Israeli Clean Tech

The Eilat-Eilot International Renewable Energy Conference reports that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the TSX) is looking to develop relationships with Israeli clean tech companies....

Water and 9 Israel-related Cleantech Headlines, Week of November 15, 2009

During the week of November 15, 2009, the 2009 WATEC water conference took place in Tel Aviv. Israel plans to desalinate Cypriot water and...

CuraPipe Systems Hires "Pigs" to Repair Leaky Pipelines

Internal pinhole cracks get repaired by Curapipe's little pig train. Small, pin-hole leaks in water, oil, and other types of pipelines often result in substantial...

Applied CleanTech Creates Fuel With Every Flush

Applied CleanTech's Sewage Recycling System is turning sewage into a fertile source of energy. It may not make for dinnertime conversation, but sewage - human,...

Thousands of Hours of Battery, and It's Green Too

Prof. Yair Ein-Eli hopes that one day his new green battery could be used in anything from hearing aids to electric cars. Perhaps it was...

Ormat features as Israel’s clean tech potential For America

Appearing on CNBC, serial entrepreneur Jon Medved mentions the thousand or so clean tech start-ups in Israel. He's also talking about the tried tested and...

Arad Group and Leviathan Energy Find Leaks and Generate Power from Water Pipes

The WATEC conference is now on in Tel Aviv. Let's look at some new technologies attempting to collect energy with every flush, and to...

Dow Chemical and Saudi Arabia’s Kaust University Vow To Clean Up Environment

Dow Chemical Company, a worldwide leader in the global chemical industry, and sponsor of the 2010 Dow Live Earth Run for Water, has entered...

California's Governator In Israel To Sign Clean Tech Co-op Deal

Five years ago this past May, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced five Israeli companies as part of his plan to create more than 800...

How lightning in Africa takes the pulse of the sun

Could Prof. Colin Price's new discovery become a new tool for monitoring the effects of climate change? Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface,...

Jewish Israelis and Jewish Americans Look to US-Israel Cooperation To Break Oil Dependence

If any of you were able to make Sunday's renewable energy conference in Jerusalem or in San Francisco,  you may have gained a better...

New Research Ship To Paint The Red Sea Green

Marine research on the Red Sea will be more serious, thanks to new ship. With pirates, environmental pollution, increasing water traffic and a collapse...

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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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A billion dollar bet on Pacific Fusion’s New Mexico campus

Pacific Fusion is building a $1 billion fusion research facility in New Mexico, betting that enormous electrical pulses can help push fusion energy beyond the laboratory and toward practical clean power.

Europe’s circular fashion mandate in effect by 2030

Europe is forcing fashion to confront its waste problem. New EU rules ban large companies from destroying unsold clothing and are expanding producer responsibility for textile waste, pushing brands toward repair, resale, recycling and circular design.

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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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