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Gideon Greenspan Shifts Gears to Catalog Carbon

From creating the world's most popular puzzle website (and a Time Magazine top 50), Israeli-British entrepreneur and hightech whiz Gideon Greenspan decided to change...

Israeli Tech Brings Solar-Powered Air Con to Your Home

Imagine if air conditioning came without the hefty price tag of electric bills—if it was, in fact, entirely free. Tel Aviv University Professor Avi...

Israel Cleantech 2008 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrvOH7VmZRE China is interested in Israeli clean technology. Here's a video capturing some of the more interesting companies at Israel's latest cleantech expo: on water,...

Green Your Job: Greenpeace Tel Aviv is Hiring!

Are you tired of seeing all the waste at work? The unnecessary printing, photocopying, computers left on all night, styrofoam cups, wasted electricity?...

Israeli Technology Harnesses Photosynthesis To Create Electricity

Photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into food and oxygen, represents some of the most advanced technology engineered by Mother Nature. And...

Water Arc's Water Recycling Gets a Boost at Cleantech 2008

Last week, Green Prophet reported from the Cleantech 2008 expo, the annual exhibition of environmentally-friendly technologies and innovations in Israel. The talk of the...

Brightsource Launches Solar Energy Plant in the Negev

Israel's natural resources are few and far between. But one resource that Israel has in abundance is sunlight, and perhaps for that reason, Israel...

JTA Covers Cleantech and Israel-Diaspora Relations

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) just published a lengthy article about the cleantech scene in Israel. JTA articles are republished in Jewish newspapers around...

Unlocking Water’s Potential To "Green" Chemistry

“Environmentally friendly” is not usually something you hear in a chemistry lab. But thanks to a groundbreaking discovery at Tel Aviv University, the chemical...

Israel's 12th Annual Cleantech Exhibition at Airport City

Last week at Tel Aviv University's Renewable Energy and Beyond (yeah the conference that Al Gore opened), and the venue where the University announced...

Google and Ormat: Power Partners in Alternative Energy?

While green funds in Israel have recently taken a dive, the general consensus seems to be that it still pays to invest in green...

Holy Electrical Bacteria, Batman!

Come on, who hasn't always wanted to say that? And now you can, because an Israeli researcher with a flair for electricity-centered solutions...

Isaac Berzin, Israel’s "Green Giant"

Dr. Isaac Berzin, founder of Greenfuel Technologies, was recently profiled in Ha'aretz. Berzin, a Ben-Gurion University and MIT-trained chemical engineer, and Boston-based Greenfuel Technologies...

Israeli Company Saying "Yes" to Carrots

An Israeli company has discovered that bottling the beta-carotene goodness found in carrots (and other orange vegetables and fruits) is beneficial for skin and...

Solar Energy Hope Floats With Geotectura's Enegy-Collection Balloons

They say hope floats. Israel's premiere environmental architecture firm Geotectura has certainly taken this statement to heart. Joseph Cory a designer at Geotectura,...

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Atmospheric Water Generators won’t work until we create clean energy to power them

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AI surveillance cameras are spreading across American cities. As Virginia residents question Flock Safety over privacy and data sharing, another issue emerges: what is the environmental cost of watching and storing everything?

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GLP-1 drugs are shrinking appetites and waistlines, but could they shrink our environmental footprint too? From fashion and food waste to lighter airplanes, packaging and transportation, Ozempic-era weight loss could have unexpected effects across the economy.

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Atmospheric Water Generators won’t work until we create clean energy to power them

Water from air sounds like magic: machines pull moisture from the atmosphere and turn it into drinking water. But atmospheric water generation comes with an energy cost, making clean energy essential if the technology is going to help solve water scarcity without worsening climate change.

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AI surveillance cameras are spreading across American cities. As Virginia residents question Flock Safety over privacy and data sharing, another issue emerges: what is the environmental cost of watching and storing everything?

Ozempic is changing our bodies. Could it shrink the economy too?

GLP-1 drugs are shrinking appetites and waistlines, but could they shrink our environmental footprint too? From fashion and food waste to lighter airplanes, packaging and transportation, Ozempic-era weight loss could have unexpected effects across the economy.

A billion dollar bet on Pacific Fusion’s New Mexico campus

Pacific Fusion is building a $1 billion fusion research facility in New Mexico, betting that enormous electrical pulses can help push fusion energy beyond the laboratory and toward practical clean power.

Europe’s circular fashion mandate in effect by 2030

Europe is forcing fashion to confront its waste problem. New EU rules ban large companies from destroying unsold clothing and are expanding producer responsibility for textile waste, pushing brands toward repair, resale, recycling and circular design.

Plastic Beverage Bottles and Caps Most Prevalent Pollutants Worldwide

Plastic bottles remain one of the most stubborn forms of ocean pollution, according to new results from Ocean Conservancy’s 2025 International Coastal Cleanup, the massive volunteer effort that removes and records trash from beaches and waterways around the world.

Looms Ran on Binary Code Before Computers Existed

The roots of modern computing run through weaving. From Jacquard looms and Ada Lovelace to women programming early computers, London’s Softwear exhibition reveals the surprisingly tactile history behind our digital world.

Mongolia rangelands the center of climate change

Mongolia put the world’s overlooked rangelands on the climate agenda at UNCCD COP17, where governments and investors backed new financing for land restoration, drought resilience and pastoral communities.
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