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ZenithSolar and 10 Israel-Related Cleantech Headlines, From Week of May 3, 2009

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Win The $1.5 Million Zayed Future Energy Prize

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Forget Submarines, Send In The Robotic Octopus Instead

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David Faiman’s CPV Solar Power Launched By Zenith Solar (VIDEO)

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Israel's Emefcy and AquaPure Make it into Artemis Top 50 Water Companies

The Jerusalem Post website is reporting that six Israeli companies made it into the water consultancy firm, The Artemis Project's first Top 50 Water Companies Competition...

Will The Middle East Heed Al Gore's Latest Cry?

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Ever Get That Sinking Feeling? Dead Sea Sinkhole Swallows Student

Following the latest incident in which a Tel Aviv University student, Idan Shadmi, was seriously when falling into a Dead Sea sinkhole, a Tel...

Shiri "Solarizes" Israeli Galilee Farmers With Greenway Solar Products

What's a 37 year old single mom, who lives in a three room mobile home in Israel's Galilee doing to support herself? Why she's...

Coral Reefs To Melt Away If CO2 Levels Double

The earth is warming up. There is no doubt about that. And carbon dioxide levels are increasing too. New research from the Hebrew University...

Going On A Water Cequesta

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it: cleaning up wastewater from industrial and agricultural operations, that is. A young Israeli company Cequesta...

Turning A Cement Truck Into Giant Soil Cleaning Technique

Byproducts from the electronics, fuel, chemical and defense industries can be far from benign. Toxic heavy metals like cadmium and lead can seep into...

Counting on Lightning to Predict Hurricane Intensity

Hurricanes are Earth's most deadly storms, causing tremendous devastation and loss of life around the globe every year. There is some evidence that...

Algae-For-Biofuel Isaac Berzin's New Advert Touting the Importance of this Alternative Energy Source

"We call it pollution, they call it gourmet food," so says algae-for-fuel missionary Isaac Berzin, who sent Green Prophet a new video, an advertisement...

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