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Israel Pioneering Use of "Bottled" Solar Energy Has Many Following Suit

 Israeli solar energy companies such as Solel Solar, Aora, Ormat technologies, and a host of others are now world leaders in the development of sun...

2009 World Water Week Honors Young Turkish and Israeli Innovators

World Water Week, an annual meeting in Stockholm about the world's most urgent water-related issues, took place this year between August 16-22.  Organized by...

Aqua Soft’s Drone Plane Collects Water From Air, Drops It As Rain

A hovering unmanned plane powered by solar energy that harvests water from the air and drops it to the ground as rainwater.

Tooth Enamel Biomimicry Inspires Lighter, More Fuel Efficient Planes and Spacecraft

It's been a mystery: how can our teeth withstand such an enormous amount of pressure, over many years, when tooth enamel is only about...

How Israel's NewTECH Is Watering The Economy

Water is fast becoming the new oil. Without it, nations starve and conflicts ensue, like the piracy off the Somali coast we've written about....

Every Day is Like Sunday Solar Energy

The 1980s pop icon Morrissey said that every day is like Sunday, silent and grey. But an Israeli solar energy company has taken the...

NATO Science for Peace Supports Desalination Water Project Between Jordan and Israel

The NATO Science for Peace Program and the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) recently awarded grants to researchers at Ben Gurion University of...

Global Warming Effects in India Hit Jordan and Israel's Dead Sea Potash

 A recent article in Israel's Globes financial newspaper, explores how Israel's valuable exports of Dead Sea mined potash to India will be reduced this...

Voltaire's Switching Computers Onto Green Power

Computers need resources. Whether it's logging on at work, sending Tweets from the train station or powering big laboratory ideas, firing up all those...

Israel's Clean Tech Industry: A Broad Brush Overview

Water technology, solar innovation, Israel's electric cars: I'd originally written this story for ISRAEL21c a few months ago when we were planning on launching...

NASA Abandons Flying Cars for Greener Flight with a $1.5m Prize for Green Plane Innovation

Last month, after my search for green innovation in aviation turned up empty, I proposed that the aviation industry needed its own Steve Jobs...

Qatari TV Program "Stars of Science" Focuses on Environmentally Friendly Innovations

(Image from the final episode of Stars of Science: Contestants run to Bassam Jalgha after being announced winner. Courtesy of Porter Novelli) Stars of Science,...

Biofuels Spark Regional Cooperation Between Israel, Palestinians and Germany

Being oil-poor may be more of a blessing than a curse for both Israel and Jordan. A joint Israeli-Jordanian project-based on the production of...

Turkey Lands World Bank's First Smart Grid

Although Smart Grids (electric networks based on renewable energy) are going up in the US and Europe, the World Bank is only now investing...

Siemens On A Solar Streak With Investment News Around Arava Power

It's the second Siemans-Israel solar news in as many months: the German energy giant Siemens, according to the Israeli business newspaper Globes, is not...

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Where Should You Buy Seeds for Planting?

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Seven years after creating her first perfume in a small Sicilian shop, my daughter had just three drops left. A family-owned perfumer in Palermo helped us recover the scent of her childhood.

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Rainwater nowhere is safe to drink

As winter rains approach the Middle East, scientists warn that PFAS forever chemicals contaminate rainwater worldwide, even in Antarctica.

Elon Musk’s flying Tesla Roadster is here. My 13-year-old son thinks it’s the future

My 13-year-old son told me about Elon Musk's flying Tesla Roadster while we were hiking. Could flying electric cars transform our cities, reduce roads and make more room for trees?

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Elon Musk's plan to give every American child a SpaceX share could inspire a new generation to explore space, understand investing and imagine a more sustainable future.
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