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The History of Thanksgiving and How to Green Yours!

One of the wonderful customs that the American settlers here in the Middle East has brought over from the old country is Thanksgiving. Here...

Making the Season Last: Tomato Confit Recipe

Tomatoes are still, mercifully, quite readily available. Though we hate to think about it, this won't always be the case. In just a few...

Dr. Bronner’s Soap is Sustainable Development in Israel/Palestine

In my book, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps definitely gets an A+ for sustainable development and corporate social responsibility!

Bactochem Barcodes Your Organic Beef With DNA Databank

How do you really know that the beef you bought is organic, kosher, halal, or raised with loving kindness? The Israeli company Bactochem has...

Nagaya Organic Gifts: Give the Gift of Sustainability

What could be a more thoughtful gift than a gift that's organic?  Giving someone an organic gift shows not only that you care about...

The Jaffa Orange Gets The Carbon Label

With America's and the world's financial markets going belly up, it will be interesting to see what happens to the carbon market. Smart CEOs...

How to Make Home-Made PESTO!

Ever since returning from Italy, Ilana and I have fallen in love with Pesto! Pesto has many wonderful heath benefits. Basil, the main ingredient,...

Vegetarian-Friendly Protein: Quinoa Salad Dinner Recipe

Quinoa isn't just for Passover anymore. Revered by the Incas as sacred, quinoa looks like a grain but is actually a plant related to...

What to Do With All That Whey – Make Biscuits!

As you may recall, we recently delved into the wonderful world of cheese-making. And when we did, we told you to save up all...

How to Make Your Own Ricotta

Ricotta is a summer cheese. And as the weather warms up, Jewish people start to think about the Hebrew holiday of Shavuot  - the...

Hearty Roots Puts the Community in CSAs

It's always exciting to get farm-fresh organic produce delivered to your door through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme, which have proliferated wildly around...

Q. Will Our Drinking Water Suddenly Stop? A. No

A friend of mine recently asked me with great concern about the water supply from his tap  - is it going to disappear tomorrow?...

Ordering Cows by the Whole or Half Steer in New York

Back in January, I took a friend to the open food market in the Hatikva neighborhood of Tel Aviv, a run-down area near the...

Lebanon Celebrates Three Years of an Organic Farming Project

Last Friday, World Vision and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) celebrated the achievements of a three year project that has helped...

EcoMum Goes Back To The Beginning With Pregnancy

For most people the first steps to a more organic, greener lifestyle is often when we start to think about children. We start to...

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Prêt-à-porter made with algae

Danit Peleg is reinventing 3D-printed fashion with algae-based biomaterials, AI-powered design and made-to-order manufacturing. Can circular fashion become commercially viable?

Oil Spill Cleanup Crews Face Hidden Health Risks 

Oil spills grab headlines for black beaches and struggling wildlife. Fewer stories follow the people who scrub those shores. Workers and volunteers often spend days breathing fumes and touching tar. Their health matters as much as the coastline.

Walk of Water offers $9,000 for water stories that nobody sees

The 2026 Walk of Water Photostory Contest is offering $9,000 in prizes for photographers documenting the hidden side of water, from wastewater and pollution to sanitation workers, public health and clean-water solutions.

Kids plant mangroves in Ajman, adding 45 more trees to the UAE’s coastal forests

Twenty-six students planted 45 mangrove saplings at Al Zorah Beach in Ajman, joining a much larger Gulf-wide push to restore mangrove forests and protect vulnerable coastlines.

NEUMÜHLE’s plain cotton hoodie is making a surprisingly radical statement

NEUMÜHLE’s simple cotton hoodie shows how much hidden complexity is built into modern clothing — and why designing garments from a single material can make recycling easier.

The ancient factory that never sat idle: what Tel Shiqmona can teach modern architects

A 2,700-year-old industrial site on Israel’s Carmel coast shows how ancient craftsmen reused the same spaces for different seasonal jobs — a lesson in flexible architecture that still matters today.

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Germany has built the world’s tallest wind turbine at nearly 1,200 feet. What does going this high mean for wind power, wildlife, aviation, residents and Europe’s energy security?

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Is epoxy resin safe? The handmade resin boom has brought industrial polymer chemistry into home workshops. We look at resin jewelry, coasters, tumblers, serving boards and the health risks of uncured epoxy.
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