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Louise Looks At Eco-Travel With "The Guardian Green Travel Guide"

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Lebanon Running Out of Fish

(Lebanese fishermen in southern Tyre clean their catch. Photo from AFP.) Southern Lebanese fishermen say their catch has slumped from 88 pounds a day in...

Shop for Social and Environmental Meaning in the Old City of Acco

This coming Tuesday, July 7th a new store will be opening up in the Old City of Acco in northern Israel.  A store that...

Untreated Wastewater Poses Huge Threat to West Bank Palestinians

A report published Sunday by the Israeli human rights group B’tselem, titled, “Foul Play: Neglect of Wastweater Treatment in the West Bank” found untreated...

Benvenisti Mourns the Forgotten Rural Heritage of Israel in "Sacred Landscape"

For readers who have driven or hiked past unmarked, run-down old stone buildings in Israel, former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meron Benvenisti’s Sacred Landscape (University...

Hollywoood Stars Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts Plant Pistachio Tree in Galilee with JNF (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVZeLgs2aTs In Israel for the first time last week, Hollywood stars Liev Schrieber and Naomi Watts (and their two cute kids) planted a pistachio tree...

Israel's IAI Joins Europe to Make "Clean Skies" and Greener and Quieter Aircraft

Carbon offsetting your flight is one way to help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases entering the air. But experts in the transportation industry...

Scientist, Environmentalist and Eco-Prophet James Lovelock Issues A Final Warning in 'The Vanishing Face of Gaia'

“We became the Earth’s infection a long and uncertain time ago": James Lovelock is perhaps the world’s best-known independent scientist; he has published a...

FoEME Helps Israel, Jordan Cut Down Flies

Although Israel and Jordan have not come to a joint stance on the Red-Dead Canal, Haaretz's tenacious environmental reporter Zafrir Rinat reported Sunday that...

New Tel Aviv Bar The Rogatka Takes Veganism To The Extreme

If the combination of the words "vegan" and "bar" doesn't make sense to you, you're not alone.  Because beer is made of hops, malt, and...

Environmental Lecture Series at Beer Sheva's Ashan Hazman

If you're in the South today and haven't yet seen An Inconvenient Truth, the Watermelon series of six "Green and Red" lectures at Beer...

Saudi Sheikh says biofuel not Islamic

There is a lot of debate around the use of ethanol and other plant-based fuels.  Many claim that the energy required to produce ethanol...

Nike Reuse-A-Shoe and 10 Israel-related Cleantech Headlines, Week of June 7, 2009

During the week of June 7, 2009, Deloitte released a survey indicating the extent of how hard hit VCs have been and that changes...

UN Fulfills Green Mission To Tree Plant in Middle East

A UN worldwide tree planting campaign has now reached the 4 billion mark in its drive to plant 7 billion trees world wide. The campaign...

Woman Tosses Million Dollar Mattress In Dump: She Should Have Recycled!

Talk about being down in the dumps: What began as a surprise for an elderly Tel Aviv woman, has turned into an absolute nightmare...

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Elkhorn kernals planted to restore reef diversity

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