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X-Tend Shelf Life and Reduce Waste With StePac Degradable Plastic Packaging

A solution to keeping fruit and veggies fresh longer in your fridge, as well as to reducing the "islands" of plastic wastes now...

Palestinians Repair Crumbling Infrastructure to Weather Water Crisis

(A view of flood water in an olive grove in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, last October. The filthy water killed about 30 olive trees....

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...

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AI may unintentionally become the economic engine that finally modernizes America’s aging grid. California is experiencing a massive AI data center boom, ranking 3rd in the U.S. with 227 operating centers and 54 more in development as of April 2026, according to Stanford.

Meet Seramic Materials from Abu Dhabi

Based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Seramic Materials was founded in 2019 by Dr. Nicolas Calvet and Dr. Jean-François Hoffmann, researchers working at the intersection of renewable energy and materials science. The company grew out of the Masdar Institute ecosystem and is supported by clean tech programs like The Catalyst, with early backing of around $150,000 and more than $2 million invested in research and development over time.

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24 7 renewable energy: how solar, wind, batteries and AI SaaS replace fossil fuels

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu Dhabi makes something clear that many in the industry already suspected. When solar and wind are paired with battery storage, they can deliver reliable, round the clock electricity at costs that compete with, and often beat, fossil fuels.

A summer of sugar wax or time for laser treatments? The environmental answer

Green Prophet readers know we write a lot about hair. We have covered the halal and the haram sides of hair removal for Muslims. We have written about sugar waxing, Persian sugaring, threading, and the beauty secrets that came out of the Middle East long before salons started calling them trends. Our articles on sugar wax broke the internet a few times. 

Make paper mache with flowers to create stunning vase

There’s something quietly beautiful about what Rebloom Studio is doing, and it starts with waste. At wholesale flower markets, mountains of unsold blooms are tossed out at the end of each cycle. Perfect flowers, just not sold in time. Most of them are burned or dumped. Rebloom takes that moment and turns it into something else.
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