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Potato Salad With Middle Eastern Flavors (RECIPE)

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Olive Prices Hit Hard – Explained

Middle Eastern olive oil producers are baring the brunt of falling oil prices Olive oil prices have hit a 10 year low, severely impacting producers in...

Natural perfume maker

Ayala Moriel has captured and bottled natural Middle East smells and made them into natural perfumes. With captivating names, perfumer Ayala Mor from Canada has...

Cheap Olive Oil Threatens to Destroy Middle East Growers and Suppliers

Can there be ways to protect olive oil prices and the sustainable ways of olive farming in the Middle East? The price for olive oil...

Asbestos Exposure Raises Cancer Rates in Lebanon

Asbestos, linked directly to mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer, is still present in many products used daily in Lebanon. But there's no...

Corporate Organic Food Struggles to Compete in Israeli Markets

In Israel the organic food market is still comparatively small and underdeveloped. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz organic food only comprises one and...

Clean Reusable Totes, Or Risk Going Green

Your reusable totes may be full of bacteria and can turn you seriously "green". Time to practice good bag hygiene.  Researchers at the University of...

Easy Trifle Recipe for Shavuot

Enjoy a delicious dairy dessert on Shavuot (but don't count the calories). Shavuot, the Jewish festival that celebrates receiving the Torah on Mt. Sinai, has...

Peak Phosphorus Fuels the World’s Growing Bellyache

Whisked away down the toilet and into our waterways, we are losing stocks of phosphorus and the result can be very scary.  Looking for something...

Purslane recipe: Verdolaga con queso

Verdolaga con queso recipe made from foraged superweeds.

Vertical Gardening Celebrated in Tel Aviv

This past weekend Yael Stav offered tours of her home and vertical garden as part of the "Houses From Within" Batim Mibifnim exhibition in...

Pesticides Causing Brain Damage to be Banned by Israel

Down side of crop dusting is pesticides that cause neurological damage:  photo by Alberto Denkberg/Haaretz Air and water pollution in Israel from insecticides, oil and...

May’s Seasonal Produce: Sour Plums and Cherries

Sour green plums the size of large marbles are in the shuk now, a seasonal favorite of the Iraqi community. Eat them out of...

Enforcing Smoke-free Workplaces in Jordan

I just spit out my coffee. About to move house for the fifth time in as many years, I take a day to escape the cardboard...

Jordanian Bank Sanabel Buys One Quarter of a Congo Forest

An Islamic bank in Jordan, Sanabel, has bought up over a quarter of a Congo forest for 'sustainable projects' When I first read about the...

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