Energy

Finance Ministry Freezes Incentives for Large Solar Plants in Israel

Israel's solar industry will showcase its wares next week at the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference. Just a week before the 4th annual celebration of Israel's...

MENA’s Top Five Ideal Countries For Solar Energy Generation

MENA has enough sun to make everyone smile, so why aren't we using it? Until 2008, not one of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries...

Sunflower Sustainable Investments Continues to Blossom in Italy

Bellisimo! Sunflower already produces some 24 MW of solar energy in Italy and Spain.  Israel-based Sunflower Sustainable Investments is continuing to find sunny prospects...

Do Creases Make You Cross? 10 Tips for Wrinkle-Free Clothes without Ironing

With planning and proper care you can cut back on your ironing for greener clothes. My friend finds ironing relaxing. I find it a chore,...

Enlight Signs Deals To Install Solar Units On IDF Bases and Municipal Rooftops

Enlightening! If you bought Enlight stock a year ago, your portfolio would be dazzling. Though it might be frigid in many parts of the...

All Oil And Too Much Play: Bahrain’s “Sustainability” Conference

A Ritzy venue for Bahrain's sustainability conference planned for January 27th and 28th. Because Bahrain is so small, the island state is almost easy to...

Greenpeace Activists In Jerusalem Protest Plans To Build Coal-Fired Power Plant

No it's not Spiderman and friends, just green activists trying to call attention to the environmental impact of coal-burning power plants. Greenpeace went to great...

Fossil Fuels Skyrocket In The Middle East

Until recently, much of the attention regarding amplified energy use has been directed towards China and India, but new data from GE indicates the Middle East is experiencing greater energy demands than any other nation. Why is this?

Will the Saudis Be the Last to Get into the Gas Guzzler Biz?

A last hurrah for the age of oil as Saudis look to build the Gazl gas guzzler. History, if there is any, will not look...

World Bank to Fund Massive Grid Expansion To Link Desertec Region and the Arab World

A gigantic electricity network would link electric grids throughout the Middle East and extend them much further in a massive infrastructure investment in a...

Abu Dhabi Pioneers Concentrated Solar Thermal A/C With Chromasun

Breakthrough sustainable clean energy technology gets a field test in forward-thinking Abu Dhabi

Leviathan Gas Discovery Could be The Mother of All Resource Curses

Today's announcement from Noble Energy of its gigantic Leviathan gas find in disputed territory will exacerbate tensions in region They say that fossil fuel riches...

Six Finalists Chosen for Masdar’s Zayed Future Energy Prize

The annual Zayed Future Energy Prize, named for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder of modern Abu Dhabi who died in 2004,...

SolarEdge Solar Co. Lip Dubs “Shine On” For New Year Cheer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7AkDLONZI Even though the Jewish New Year was a few months ago, and the Muslim New Year the first week of December, SolarEdge, the Israeli...

World’s First Eco-Playbus Hits the Streets of Bethlehem

Built by Palestinian engineers, the toy-carrying Eco-Playbus is powered by solar and cycling power Yesterday, 250 children from the Aida Camp in Bethlehem and various...

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Hydrophilis Rebreather: After the Penis Jokes and Shark Bait Memes, Oliver Isler Says His Underwater Dream Is Serious

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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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