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Bug Lights: Illuminating Desktop Pets by Omer Inbar

Israeli designer Omer Inbar is selling Bug Lights - a series of desk lamps that look like insects. Decidedly minimalist and definitely unique, each product...

Novel-tee Charges Your Phone, Someday

Charging our clothes to credit cards is nothing new.  Now our clothes may be doing the charging. Scientists at the University of South Carolina (USC)...

Sustainable clothing inspiration

Let's face it, eco-friendly clothing is hard to come by in the Middle East. Desire to own the top brand names at whatever financial...

Don’t Miss the Chance to Win an Organic Cotton Dress from MuMu Organic

There's just one week left to win a beautiful organic cotton dress from MuMu Organic and help Green Prophet get to 6,000 likes on...

Design School Partners with Wineries to Give Wooden Barrels a Second Life

I used to be a wine barrel... and now I'm a chess board. Wine companies worldwide may be trying to 'go green' by producing...

Off the Gireed is a Sassy Egyptian Furniture Line Made with Organic Palm Fiber

Although Moursi has worked on satellite cities in Kuwait and interior design for river Nile cruise boats, it is telling that she has switched her focus to creating a sustainability ethos within the Egyptian context. Such leadership is badly needed in this country, although we are happy to report that the newly-invigorated local populace is slowly taking up the mandate to forge ecologically and socially-responsible businesses.

Burning Tires the Bokja Way – to Protest Against Beirut Pollution

"We are Tyred" by Bokja Studio. Bokja design in Beirut embroiders the tires, in protest

Istanbul’s Top 10 Secondhand Clothing Shops

Find the best secondhand shop in Istanbul using this interactive map. Maybe find some old Turkish fish clogs.

Inspired by Love, BELDI Sells Planet-Friendly Artisanal Crafts From Morocco

  We are suckers for a good love story, especially when it has an eco-twist. Chafiq Ennaoui and Aimee Bianca met at the Djemaa el Fna square...

Egyptian Library is Sustainable Regional Role Model

This fall Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandria will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its opening. It is one of the region’s grandest and most beautiful libraries. Although...

Acre Father Aims to Make His Capital Green

Ilan Suisa, a father of four from Akko (Acre), aspires to make his ancient hometown the environmental activism capital of Israel. According to news reports he...

Mohammed Kanoo Shows How Arab Culture Is Never Black and White

Mohammed Kanoo's portraits aim to tease out our biases about the Middle East. Above is US President Barack Obama.  In his solo exhibition Fun with...

Like Us on Facebook and Win an Organic Cotton Dress

It's summertime, which means the ladies can finally break out their planet-friendly dresses and strut the streets in style, so we are giving you...

Eco-Friendly Bridal Gowns the Israeli Way By Liraz Rubbin

April 2012 saw Tel Aviv’s first Bridal Fashion Week, featuring fifty up and coming Israeli designers. Israel’s lucrative bridal fashion business is on the...

Guy Lougashi Fashions Amazing Sculptures Out of Tape

Guy Lougashi makes incredible sculptures entirely out of either colored or transparent tape. Eschewing the hardening or drying phase of many sculptural materials such...

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My 13-year-old son told me about Elon Musk's flying Tesla Roadster while we were hiking. Could flying electric cars transform our cities, reduce roads and make more room for trees?
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