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Afcon Industries to Fund Wind Power in Israel

A $100 million investment by Afcon Industries is more than hot wind. It's a testament to put Israel on the cleantech map and the...

Winding Up for More Wind Power in Israel

Israel is no stranger to wind power, but using it as a source of viable alternative energy has been criticized by green groups such...

Will Kenaf Become the World’s New Wood?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPKT_NNupJ4&feature=related We've talked about the wonders of bamboo, but another material, being researched and improved by Israeli scientists may become the new bamboo, the new...

Re-Routing Deadly Electronic Waste

Israelis are known for their advances in high-tech. We brag about it whenever we can. A little known fact is that Israel also generates...

Eco-Skeptic Bjorn Lomborg Lectures Israel on Enviro-Funding

Controversial Danish Eco-Skeptic Bjorn Lomborg is currently in Israel. Today he is due to present a lecture at the Knesset arguing that funds set aside...

Checklight: Mighty Microbes Glow to Keep Water Safe

It reminds us a bit of the canary in a coal mine story – throw a living creature into a dangerous situation, and if...

Electric Car Grid Project On its Way?

By now,  many people have heard of the electric car grid project that Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi is launching with $200 million capital. Agassi...

All about the Dude Shemesh from Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-_7kSztkFM   It's Friday, and hey we like videos. Here is a short movie on an Israeli green achievement: the dud shemesh. Israelis were quick to...

The Future’s Next Economic Wave… Water

Ironically, for a planet that over 70% of it’s surface is covered by water, water is becoming quite a commodity. While it may be...

3GSolar (Orion Solar) Creates Dye Electricity

One of the big issues when the topic of eating healthy comes up is the problem of food coloring. Many of these colorings are...

The Smell of Money in Israel

Bank Leumi has a new trick up its sleeve. It has decided to use smell marketing to get Israelis to invest more money. It...

The Dan Zaslavsky Energy Tower that sucks up greenhouse gases

Estimates predict that Dan Zaslavsky's Energy Tower looming tower could create electricity at 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, less than a third of the cost of electricity in Israel today.

Breaking the Waves With SDE Energy

According to a company press release the Israeli tidal wave energy company S.D.E. began talks with Sri Lankan officials to construct and install a...

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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.

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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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