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Young Egyptian Designers Use Fashion to Change Our Plastic Habits

Young Egyptians Yara Yassin and Rania Rafie are embarking on a business that makes bags from bags - innovative handbags sewn from throwaway plastic. ...

Israel’s Caravan Collective Puts the E in Cycling Apparel

Caravan Collective is a fresh new cycling apparel studio from Israel that fuses quirky graphic design with a passion for cycling, people, and the...

Mediterranean Net-Zero Home Based on 3,500-Year-Old Israeli Design

Team Israel is all pumped up to show off their design skills at the upcoming 2013 international Solar Decathlon competition in China with All ...

Israel’s Itay Kirshenbaum Grows Backyard Furniture

What is up with Israeli designers? On the whole, they're an eco-conscious group that use their creative genius to churn out groundbreaking designs, but...

Yariv Goldfarb Uses 3D-Printing to ‘Play with Poop’

We've seen a lot of really useful applications for 3D printing, but Yariv Goldfarb's graduation project for the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem is not one of them: printing plastic molds in order to "play with poop."

George Orwell Never Imagined These Deluxe Farms for Bees and Animals

Animals have a hard life in the Middle East. Working beasts endure grueling outdoor elements and pet culture is unfamiliar.  In a region where...

Bird’s Nest: Solar-Powered Studio Perches on School Roofs

Onat Öktem, Ziya Imren and Zeynep Öktem are among the most exciting eco-minded architects working in Turkey, and Bird's Nest is also among their most unique...

HUSH: A Seating Pod that Creates Privacy Anywhere

HUSH is a brilliant seating pod designed by Freyja Sewell that creates a small tucked away spot anywhere - even in the most crowded...

Lush Green Terraces Top the Palestine Museum by Heneghan Peng

Dublin's Heneghan Peng has designed a new museum for Palestine that is topped with a series of unfolding green terraces planted with vegetation that...

Dubai: World’s Largest Airport Greens Up its Act

Dubai International, soon to be the world's largest airport, is focusing on sustainability with its newly proposed concourse D. The wing, which is the...

Cristal: a Salt-Covered Leisure Center for the Dying Dead Sea

The Dead Sea garnered international attention when photographer Spencer Tunick assembled a gang of naked nature enthusiasts for a controversial photo shoot, but the momentum...

Aerodynamic ARPT Headquarters Diverts Algiers’ Hot Desert Winds Naturally

The same Italian design firm that designed a fleet of eco-schools for Gaza has won an international competition to design the headquarters of Algeria's...

First Green-Roofed Urban Oasis Planned for Abu Dhabi

Albeit better than neighboring Dubai's skyline of what renowned architect Frank Gehry calls "cheap" and "anonymous" architecture, Abu Dhabi has grown into a...

Grow Your Own Living Clothes with BioCouture During Beirut Design Week

If you are a designer eager to find more sustainable material choices for your creative inventions, you might want to hit the BioCouture workshop...

Ron Arad Immortalizes Six Fiat 500s by Crushing Them for Israeli Art Exhibit

Israeli artist and designer Ron Arad has expressed his love of Fiat 500s in a curious way as part of an art exhibition at...

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Art from Oman at the Venice Biennale

Oman is returning to the Venice Biennale with Zīnah, an immersive installation by artist and curator Haitham Al Busafi that transforms a traditional form of horse adornment into a large-scale sensory experience.

Korean researchers create battery from greenhouse gases

Professor Ji-Soo Jang, in collaboration with Professor Taekwang Yoon of Ajou University and Professor Hansel Kim of Chungbuk National University, has developed a novel energy device that generates electricity during the process of capturing greenhouse gases.

SunZia comes online and America’s 11B, and largest renewable project begins wind power

The impact is already being felt. California has broken its wind generation record multiple times in recent weeks as SunZia begins feeding electricity into the grid. It’s a glimpse of what a renewable-powered future could look like when large-scale infrastructure finally comes online. Can we start saying goodbye to Saudi Aramco and Arabian Gulf oil? 

Married People Have Lower Cancer Risk, But the Reason is Complex

According to the research, cancer risk was 68% higher in never-married men and 85% higher in never-married women.

40 more migratory animals need protecting, warns UN group

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), governments agreed to extend protection to 40 more migratory species, from cheetahs and striped hyenas to snowy owls, giant otters, and great hammerhead sharks. Too many of them are slipping toward extinction .

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Art from Oman at the Venice Biennale

Oman is returning to the Venice Biennale with Zīnah, an immersive installation by artist and curator Haitham Al Busafi that transforms a traditional form of horse adornment into a large-scale sensory experience.

Korean researchers create battery from greenhouse gases

Professor Ji-Soo Jang, in collaboration with Professor Taekwang Yoon of Ajou University and Professor Hansel Kim of Chungbuk National University, has developed a novel energy device that generates electricity during the process of capturing greenhouse gases.

SunZia comes online and America’s 11B, and largest renewable project begins wind power

The impact is already being felt. California has broken its wind generation record multiple times in recent weeks as SunZia begins feeding electricity into the grid. It’s a glimpse of what a renewable-powered future could look like when large-scale infrastructure finally comes online. Can we start saying goodbye to Saudi Aramco and Arabian Gulf oil? 

Married People Have Lower Cancer Risk, But the Reason is Complex

According to the research, cancer risk was 68% higher in never-married men and 85% higher in never-married women.

40 more migratory animals need protecting, warns UN group

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), governments agreed to extend protection to 40 more migratory species, from cheetahs and striped hyenas to snowy owls, giant otters, and great hammerhead sharks. Too many of them are slipping toward extinction .

When peace returns, will we rediscover Saudi Arabia’s mud-brick soul?

When the region settles after the American war with Iran, and it will, American and European travelers will come back. Not just for spectacle or headline projects, but for places that feel real. Places that haven’t been engineered to impress and which get into your soul. We predict that visitors to Saudi Arabia will want to see places like Rijal Alma.When the region settles after the American war with Iran, and it will, American and European travelers will come back. Not just for spectacle or headline projects, but for places that feel real. Places that haven’t been engineered to impress and which get into your soul. We predict that visitors to Saudi Arabia will want to see places like Rijal Alma.

A baking soda trick could help clean “forever chemicals” from our water

“Forever chemicals” like the ones ejected by Lulelemon yoga pants into strategic areas don’t go away. They don’t break down in nature, and once they’re in water, soil, or our bodies, they tend to stick around. But scientists at Florida International University think they’ve found a smarter way to deal with them, and it uses something as simple as pH.

Koh Phangan’s angels for the dogs and the cats

Koh Phangan may be known for yoga, detox retreats, and full moon parties, but beyond the curated paradise lies a different reality—one of injured stray animals and the quiet work of rescue. This story explores PACS (Phangan Animal Care for Strays), a grassroots animal shelter tackling overpopulation, disease, and neglect on the island. Through firsthand experience with teens, it reveals how meaningful travel, volunteerism, and compassion offer a deeper kind of healing—far from the Instagram version of paradise.
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