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Green Prophet Sees Aora's Solar Flower Power Fire Up in the Desert

“In Jewish tradition, if someone has a coin, half will be used to buy bread and the other half for a flower. The gesture...

Cell Phone Towers Can Help Predict the Next Big Flood

Hurricane Katrina: Phone home –– If you have a cell phone tower planted somewhere near your home or your kid's daycare, you'll probably think...

Algae Biofuel To Send Astronauts to Space? Israel’s Seambiotic Partners With NASA

Algae could be a viable source of biofuel if it can be produced efficiently. Read our recent story on Algaenesis. Now Seambiotic, an Israeli...

Israel's Cleantech 2009 Emphasizes Water Projects and Renewable Energy

Israel's 13th annual Cleantech exhibition on environmental technology and renewable energy projects is currently underway at the Israel Trade Fairs and Conventions Center in...

Drum Roll: Home to International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA Will Be . . . Masdar City

It could change the way companies make and distribute renewable energy technologies: We reported about the International Renewable Agency that convened in Sharm, Egypt...

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...

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Where Should You Buy Seeds for Planting?

Good gardens start with good seeds. Learn how to choose reliable seed companies, avoid poor-quality seeds, understand heirloom and hybrid varieties, and store seeds for better germination.

La Profumoteca: The Sicilian perfume shop that remembered my daughter’s first scent

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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Ukrainian design studio Pilsok, known for its popular Beetle backpack, transforms discarded car airbags into a striking designer jacket honouring Ukraine's emergency rescuers.

PeaceTech is the next CleanTech. And we’ve been building it for decades.

From the forests of Ontario to sea turtle conservation in Lebanon and water cooperation across the Middle East, Green Prophet founder Karin Kloosterman argues that CleanTech, EnviroTech and AgTech are already building the foundations of PeaceTech.

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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?

Why Elon Musk giving every American child a SpaceX share is a beautiful, green idea

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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