Energy

Setsuden Helped Japan Conserve 75 Nuclear Reactors Worth of Energy

Brian Nitz - March 14, 2012

The Middle East can learn about energy savings from the Japanese, and the Japanese concept of setsuden. Sometime during the mid 1990s a series of...

Business

Tektuğ Elektrik Group Enters Turkey’s Expanding Wind Energy Sector

Julia Harte - March 9, 2012

German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex will construct eleven 2.5 MW turbines for the Tektuğ Elektrik Group's first wind project. This autumn, on a mountain ridge...

Business

Are Renewables Just Freeing Up Oil For Export?

Arwa Aburawa - March 11, 2012

Does an expanding renewables market in the Middle East (such as that showcased in Masdar) just mean more oil can be exported and more...

Business

Low Carbon Economics Aligns With the Sharia Law of Islam

Faisal O'Keefe - March 6, 2012

The people promoting bond sales to fund climate change turn to Islamic investors. Gulf nations may prove to be a prime market for Climate...

Energy

Jordan Announces Oil Shale Plans Without Opposition

Tafline Laylin - March 6, 2012

While Israeli activists fight oil shale exploration, Jordan announces plans to explore oil shale next door. While activists continue to fight against oil shale testing...

Energy

5 Technologies to Make Desalination More Efficient

Brian Nitz - March 5, 2012

People who live in Mideastern coastal cities might understand the despair expressed in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "Water, water every...

Energy

A Real Live Solar City Shines in Israel

Shifra Mincer - March 5, 2012

A town in the Jezreel Valley, Israel prefers its weather sunny, and not only for clear blue skies and golden sunshine. Over 70 percent of...

Energy

German-Funded Solar Projects in West Bank Face Demolition

Arwa Aburawa - February 28, 2012

Back in November we reported on a solar plant in Hebron that was threatened with demolition orders issued by the Israeli administration. However, diplomatic...

Energy

Will Smart Sockets Change the Economics of Efficiency?

Brian Nitz - February 27, 2012

Smart sockets explained. Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission said this to a group of science writers in 1954: "Our children will...

Energy

South Africa to Green its Economy in 2013 with Carbon Tax

Susan Kraemer - February 23, 2012

South Africa, among the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases worldwide, plans to introduce its own price on carbon next year. The Treasury said this week...

Energy

How Obama Can Slow the Rising of the Oceans with World Bank Appointee

Susan Kraemer - February 18, 2012

Over the next few weeks, President Obama has a fateful personnel decision to make, and one that will influence the world’s climate, in a...

Cities

Is Light Pollution The End of Arabian Nights?

Brian Nitz - June 30, 2023

What if no one had ever witnessed the beauty of a dark night sky? The ancient light of distant stars inspired Middle Eastern art,...

Business

EU’s Planned Nabucco Gas Pipeline To Be Displaced By Russian Project

Julia Harte - February 6, 2012

The Nabucco natural gas pipeline (in orange) was designed to lessen eastern Europe's dependence on Russia's sometimes unreliable gas supply. But Russia's South Stream...

Energy

Run Your Carbon Footprint Against the World’s

Faisal O'Keefe - February 5, 2012

My feet are big, at US women’s size 10, but my footprint is enormous. See how yours compares to other nations in the world...

Business

Israel Embraces Solar As It Races Towards 2020 Clean Energy Goal

Shifra Mincer - February 5, 2012

The arid Middle Eastern desert climate offers little in the way of natural resources. But it does boast of brilliant and fierce sunlight. In a...

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