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The Arava Insitute Teaches Palestinians, Jordanians and Israelis To Solve Water & Environment Issues Together

(Cousteau interviews students from the Arava Institute in Israel. It's a unique learning center that offers environment degrees to students from around the world.) We've...

Daniella Unpicks Israel's Relationship With Land and Housing In Amiran Gonen's "Between City and Suburb"

If you’ve heard about the demise of the kibbutz movement, then you may also know that financially strapped communal farms have recently climbed out...

Egypt Culls 300,000 Pigs In Response to Swine Flu Virus

At the time of writing this post, there are 6 confirmed cases of swine flu now in Israel. Out of fear that the virus might...

Ronald Macintyre Excavates 'The Nature Of The State'

Reading has its own geography. I read this book The Nature of the State while I traveled back and forth from the West Highlands...

VIDEO: Israelis Pedal Power Earth Day Concert At Rabin Square

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ylk1zXMSTs We couldn't miss this one for the world: last night about 20 professional cyclists put the pedal to the metal and powered the Balkan...

Falafel oil fuels Tel Aviv Earth Hour concert

Okay, so officially... Earth Hour was a few weeks ago and despite the fact that many other Middle Eastern cities participated, Israel was caught...

James Laps Up Simon Barnes's Book 'How to Be Wild'

"The more we leave the non-human world behind, the less human we become: and the more fearful we become. It is not the thrilling...

Israel Celebrates "Earth Day" Today Only Tomorrow, With Lights Out, Beach Cleaning, Concerts and Green Awards

(Photographer Yuval Chen spent almost two years snapping shots of hedgehogs in Tel Aviv's urban landscape. For more see ISRAELITY). Celebrated since 1970, Israel is...

Shiri "Solarizes" Israeli Galilee Farmers With Greenway Solar Products

What's a 37 year old single mom, who lives in a three room mobile home in Israel's Galilee doing to support herself? Why she's...

Doomsday 90s Film On Global Warming Becomes Stark Reality

Writing the Green Prophet story on ecomigration got me thinking about a cheesy made for TV movie The Fire Next Time made 15 years...

Architect Gil Peled Strives for a 'Carbon-Free House' in Stephen and Rebekah Hren's Book

Carbon emissions from the building environment are globally one of the major contributors to climate change. On average up to 50% of all carbon...

Exploring Human Apathy In The Film 'The Age Of Stupid'

‘The Age of Stupid’ is an ambitious new Independent British green documentary. As a fellow filmmaker and activist, I salute director Franny Armstrong and her...

Jews Celebrate "Solar Seder" in the Arava Desert at Kibbutz Lotan

Just a few hours after Jews of all stripes gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to celebrate "Birkat haChama" - the blessing of...

Jordan's Environment Society A Middle East Model for Environmental Protection

Countries in the Middle East should take notice that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is making great efforts to improve Jordan's environment as well...

Iran's New Year "Nowruz" An Ecological Bridge To Connect The Middle East?

Eco-Jews are busy now celebrating Passover, while Christians in the Holy Land and the world over ready themselves for Easter. Iranians, we learn had...

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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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