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"Highway 6" Construction Firm Makes Big Bid on Solel's Solar Energy Tech

Solar tech innovators in Israel seem to be always looking West for investment dollars, but in a surprising move, Israel's Housing & Construction company...

Hiria Garbage Mountain Gets Green Lighting From Clean Energy

Hiria, Israel's hard-to-miss garbage mountain located off the road that connects Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, has been trying to fix its trashy image and...

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

Worried about your carbon footprint? Not sure where to turn for accurate information? This book certainly delivers what it says on the...

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...

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

Israeli eVTOL startup AIR has moved beyond prototypes, with a new Florida production facility, eight aircraft in production and about $50 million raised. How close is AIR ONE to your garage?

Stardust’s solar geoengineered $10 billion plan to blot out the sun

Israeli-American startup Stardust Solutions has raised $75 million to develop technology that could cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight. Is solar geoengineering becoming a real industry? Or could it be a new threat?

Mantle8 takes its natural hydrogen hunt from the Pyrenees to Dubai

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Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Starbucks tested precision-fermented milk from Perfect Day in 2021, but is it hiding in your latte today?

Alien chemistry crashed through a roof in New Jersey

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

Israeli eVTOL startup AIR has moved beyond prototypes, with a new Florida production facility, eight aircraft in production and about $50 million raised. How close is AIR ONE to your garage?

Stardust’s solar geoengineered $10 billion plan to blot out the sun

Israeli-American startup Stardust Solutions has raised $75 million to develop technology that could cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight. Is solar geoengineering becoming a real industry? Or could it be a new threat?

Mantle8 takes its natural hydrogen hunt from the Pyrenees to Dubai

Mantle8 is taking its hunt for naturally occurring hydrogen from beneath the Pyrenees to the Middle East, opening a Dubai hub after raising €31 million. But finding hydrogen underground is one thing; proving it can be produced cheaply and at scale is another.

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Here’s what we found

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Starbucks tested precision-fermented milk from Perfect Day in 2021, but is it hiding in your latte today?

Alien chemistry crashed through a roof in New Jersey

meteorite crashed through a New Jersey roof carrying ancient salts, organic compounds and amino acids. After a few too many visits to Ontario’s Crystal Cave — and my own mysterious fireball in the forest — I have questions about the alien chemistry falling around us.

Adidas wanted to sell one shoe. Then it stepped into a global culture war

Adidas Israel featured amputee runner Shalev Biton in its Single Shoe campaign, designed to let people who need only one shoe buy one instead of a pair. The local campaign has since sparked international boycott calls and an apology from Adidas.

Scientists make lead-free perovskite solar cells that can weather the elements

Scientists have developed a “raincoat” for lead-free tin perovskite solar cells, helping them withstand air, moisture and heat while maintaining high efficiency.

Europe’s mountain plants are paying off an extinction debt

Europe’s mountaintops may look richer in plant life, but rising species numbers are masking the disappearance of alpine specialists as temperatures climb.
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