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Expanding the Role of Algae: Algaenesis

Algae biofuel is now being developed as a source of energy for the future, but really algae has been fueling society for a long...

Siemens Mulls Buying Israeli Solar Company Solel

German industrial giant Siemens is now involved in talks to purchase the Israeli Solel Solar Energy Ltd., according to an article published in Globes,...

Phone Home With Sunbeam Power Using Lebanon’s Alfa

Alfa, Lebanon's chief mobile phone service company, is now operating on solar energy to power its transmission network. The company recently installed its fifth solar...

What Slipped Through The Cracks, When We Measured Greenhouse Gases

Al Gore may have given us a frightening picture of climate change and our future, but now new research suggests that even his predictions...

Israel and Germany Launch Sustainable Irrigation Project in Ethiopia

Israeli NGOs, such as Earth's Promise, are involved with helping Ethiopian populations within the country (check out the Eco-Thiopia festival in Beer Sheva next...

Energy Recovery Inc Delivers Fresh Water to Dry Sharem al Sheikh

Those of you who have been to Egypt's eastern Sinai coast can vouch that even though the area is quite lovely,  it's also quite...

HCL CleanTech’s Cleaner Approach to Cellulosic Ethanol Production

Cellulosic ethanol has often been viewed as the class of ethanol with the most promise, as it converts agriculture and forestry wastes, city sewage...

Phoebus Energy Shifts The "Hybrid" Idea to Home Heating and Cooling

We've all heard about hybrid energy systems for cars (because we've read Karen's story about her family Prius); but now an Israeli company, Phoebus...

Rich Oil State Dubai Plans To Power Up With Solar Energy

Following on the heels of the much publicized Masdar City, the first carbon emissions free city in the world, Dubai (which likes to do...

Tal Ya trays make water from dew

When I wrote this article years ago I was excited about small ideas that could improve agriculture. But there is a big but: Tal Ya trays are made from a non-renewable resource: plastic. Plastic leaches into the soil and eventually groundwater.

Dye-ing To Power Solar Cells in Africa

With many types of solar technology in development, it can be challenging to determine which is most effective. The efficiently in which a solar cell...

Sunday And Ormat Build Largest Solar Roof in the Middle East

Sunday Energy, a solar energy service provider in Israel, and Ormat Technologies, one of the world’s largest geothermal power solutions companies, recently announced they...

Qatar and the UK Research On Recycling Plastic Waste

Qatar, one of the largest polymer-producing countries in the Middle East region has new ambitions for recycling its plastic waste. Qatar University has paired...

Low-tech Watercone funnels seawater to thirsty in Yemen

Collecting water from thin air is not an odd idea. The ancient Israelites did it back in the day and they have a prayer...

BP Solar and SolarEdge Partner to Develop Power Harvesting System

Solar energy giant BP Solar from Maryland, USA, and SolarEdge from Israel today announced a joint agreement to commercialize a power harvesting system embedded...

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Recipe: Nettles Malfatti

Springtime foraging yields a harvest of wild greens to cook at home, like nettles. Make delicious nettles malfatti dumplings with this recipe.

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Yalla Parkour, directed by Areeb Zuaiter, captures this culture from within. The film follows Zuaiter’s long relationship with Ahmed Matar, a parkour athlete in Gaza, as she reflects on loss, memory, and belonging after the death of her mother. What begins as a personal search gradually opens into a portrait of how movement shapes young lives under constraint.

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Al-Rumaydh describes the Sidr less as a single organism and more as a working ecological unit. Its deep roots reach down toward groundwater, while lateral roots spread wide to catch surface moisture. Its dense canopy slows wind instead of blocking it abruptly, reducing erosion.

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