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A Green Prophet Tours His Hometown Waste Streams

Driving 22 East from Somerville I saw an industrial zone I had never seen before. I made a right, which took me past...

Twitter For Water at Twestival 2009 in Jerusalem

If you haven't caught on to the supremely contagious micro-blogging phenomenon known as Twitter, now's your chance to Twitter for the environment. This year,...

Turkish Government Gets Ready to Deal with Electronic Waste

As you sit in front of your computer now, reading the latest from Green Prophet, we challenge you to hark back to all of...

The UAE's Zayed Future Energy Prize Awarded to Bangladesh Solar Power Developer

A Bangladesh developer in the alternative energy field won the coveted Zayed Future Energy Prize at a recent competition held in the United Arab...

Elite coffee uses leftover beans to power factor

The Israeli town of Tsfat (or Safed) is typically associated with the colour blue, owing to the tint that many of its buildings are...

Ford Designs New EcoGuide to Maximize Fuel Efficiency

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=5dRzx7YGBNM It's one thing to buy a hybrid car, but another to understand and know how to use it wisely. Ford has a solution: Ford...

Turkey Creates and Tests Hybrid Buses As Part of Project Ğ

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of living in or visiting Turkey, you’ll find it’s very hard to get lost off the beaten trail....

Shai Agassi Goes Canadian, eh, With Better Place in Ontario

We were too distracted by the war with Gaza over the last few weeks to take notice that Shai Agassi from Better Place, the...

"Agam Energy Systems" Pulls Out The Pistons For 100 Miles To The Gallon

People love their cars, even environmentalists. In the Middle East, it's less so, but in America, people and own more cars per capita than...

Alubin's All Season Windows Pivot To Save Energy

Windows are one of the most significant costs in building projects or home renovations. Next to that are the bills homeowners have to pay...

Eilat to Host Major International Energy Conference

Despite the ongoing conflict in Israel, a three-day international conference on renewable energy planned for February is going 'full steam ahead,' according to organizers. Far...

Achmed Khammas Creates Book of Synergy For Change To Renewables From Within

Green Prophet recently interviewed Achmed Khammas. Achmed grew up in Syria and now lives in Germany, and he tells us about the new popular online...

Upcoming Event: "Greening of Jerusalem" Forum on Emergence of Cleantech Industry

On Thursday, January 15, several organizations are joining together for a forum titled “Greening of Jerusalem.” The event is bringing together local cleantech companies,...

Iran Inaugurates Its First CSP Solar Power Plant

  (This AP photo shows a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Spain which reflects light to a central tower to produce power.  A pilot...

Israel's Innowattech Harvests Wasted Energy from Trains, Planes and Automobiles

 No stone is left unturned in our desperate search for energy sources to wean us from our dependence on fossil fuels.  Sources of primary...

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AI data centers are triggering panic, instead of cleantech opportunities

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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