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Sunday’s Middle East Green News Snippets

Catch up on the green stories from Middle East you may have missed this week It's certainly been a busy week of green news and...

World Bank Supports Turkey-Built 56.4 MW Wind Project in Pakistan

With crippling floods every year and regular power outages, a new internationally financed wind project in Pakistan is breezy green news to us. Iran,...

Can Nuclear Power Ever Be Justified For Environmental Reasons?

Jordan looks into the advantages of nuclear and we debunk the ‘green’ arguments for going nuclear Whilst Turkey reassesses its own nuclear plans following a...

Turkey Expected To Cancel Nuclear Plans After Massive Earthquake

The earthquake struck approximately 20 kilometers north of the city of Van, pictured above. Turkey's seismology institute estimated the final death toll would reach...

Energy Experts Tell Arab World ‘Solar is the Future’

It's official: energy experts predict that solar power will be the most important source of energy in the Middle East within the next decade There's...

Iran Forgets India and Keeps Pitching Peace Pipeline to Pakistan

Iran, becoming more isolated appeals to Pakistan to move ahead with natural gas "peace pipeline." Saboteurs have already had their say in the idea....

Turkish Village Goes Off The Grid With A Wind Turbine

"They're blazing a new path in Turkey" reads the headline over this photo of Akbıyık villagers standing in front of their new wind turbine. The lights...

Local Wind Energy Industry Emerges In Turkey

Turkey has used wind energy for more than ten years now, but never from locally developed and produced wind turbines. That's about to change. In...

SolarEdge Does Dallas

Israel's SolarEdge is making solar energy most cost-effective SolarEdge Technologies Inc, whose patented Solar Power Harvesting and Optimization System is beginning to receive good reviews,...

Solar Bottle Lights a Bright Idea for the Developing World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBWi3NtND68 This idea is so simple, yet so brilliant.  Maybe it could help light up the Middle East? Filipinos living in simple corrugated metal homes have...

Canada Muzzles Climate Science Cheney/Bush-Style

Bush era US climate science policy seems to have moved north to Canada, argues Susan. A student researcher at the University of Toronto has exposed a...

UAE Stands By Its Nuclear Plans

Despite the Fukushima nuclear power disaster, the energy minister of the United Arab Emirates states that they will stick by their nuclear energy...

IKEA Israel Stops Selling Incandescent Bulbs

There may be a lot of things that IKEA is doing wrong for the environment, but ceasing to sell incandescent bulbs isn't one of...

A Geophysicist’s Guide to Striking it Rich – With Natural Gas

Israeli researchers say they can provide a more integrated way for surveying for natural gas. As the race is on to find natural gas...

Big Brother? Masdar Monitors Student Energy & Water Consumption

A one-year investigation by  researchers will hopefully reveal what incentives are most likely to encourage energy and water conservation among Masdar's student body. There's nothing...

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