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EcoMum: Bathing Baby and Water Conservation

Well, winter is upon us and the rain is finally dampening the earth but that does not mean that we should forget about our...

Green Events at the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University this Week

If being more environmentally friendly is one of your New Year's resolutions, you might consider going to one of the great "green" events hosted...

Eco-Village Kramim: A Green Ray of Light in the Negev

With so much negativity in the southern part of the country and the Negev right now, it is refreshing to learn about positive things...

Recycling and Deifying Donkey Dung in Israel

The Christmas season in Europe is often silly season for the world's media outlets, when they outdo each other to find the strangest, weirdest...

This Greenhouse grows kids into flowers

Inspired by the Green Kindergarten initiative made by the Israeli government, I dug up this story I'd written earlier in the year on a...

Israeli Tots At 82 Kindergartens To Learn Green ABC's

In a special ceremony, held in Bar-Ilan University earlier this month, some 48 green kindergartens located in the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, central and southern...

Dianne Onstad's Whole Foods Companion, A Charming and Chock-Full Book

With winter upon us, now is the perfect time to get cozy with a pile of books. The latest in our eco-reads book review...

Eco-Rabbi: Parshat Miketz – Making all of the Years Years of Plenty

Joseph was sent down to Egypt by his brothers to remove him from the picture. Their father had favored Joseph and his brothers were...

Eco Rabbi takes the Hanukkah Challenge!

Ever wonder why every day of Hanukkah we add another candle? The Jewish religious source the Talmud explains that this disagreement goes back to the...

Eco Rabbi: Parshat Vayeshev – Love the Land and it Will Love You Back

Traveling through the mountains of Judea I am always struck by the stark contrast between the mountainous areas where there are villages and where...

Earth Hour 2009 Sweeps Across the Middle East

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjWD8pbK5t8 It was almost exactly a year ago that we enthusiastically wrote about Tel Aviv's upcoming participation in Earth Hour 2008, as the only Middle...

"Greenchange" – A new Israeli social network

In an overwhelming world of  online social networks a new Israeli/Environmental network has emerged called "GreenChange" using the Ning.com platform. The organization behind GreenChange is...

Youth Clean Energy Movement Event in Jerusalem

Dear Green Prophet folks, Hello! My name is Zohar Tobi -- I'm an organizer for the US Youth Clean Energy Movement, and I'm writing to...

Heschel Center Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a Conference on Sustainability this Week

Green events are filling our social calendars this week - first there's the Green Drinks event in Tel Aviv tonight (at 8pm at Gilda...

Upcoming Event: Fundraiser Party for Biogas Electricity for Bedouin Villages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSr6oLw-X4U Ilana Meallem of Arava Institute has helped initiate a project to install a bio-gas facility in the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, to...

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Hydrophilis Rebreather: After the Penis Jokes and Shark Bait Memes, Oliver Isler Says His Underwater Dream Is Serious

The Hydrophilis rebreather is a new scuba system that could make diving safer and more fun.

AI data centers are triggering panic, instead of cleantech opportunities

AI may unintentionally become the economic engine that finally modernizes America’s aging grid. California is experiencing a massive AI data center boom, ranking 3rd in the U.S. with 227 operating centers and 54 more in development as of April 2026, according to Stanford.

Meet Seramic Materials from Abu Dhabi

Based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Seramic Materials was founded in 2019 by Dr. Nicolas Calvet and Dr. Jean-François Hoffmann, researchers working at the intersection of renewable energy and materials science. The company grew out of the Masdar Institute ecosystem and is supported by clean tech programs like The Catalyst, with early backing of around $150,000 and more than $2 million invested in research and development over time.

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Meet Seramic Materials from Abu Dhabi

Based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Seramic Materials was founded in 2019 by Dr. Nicolas Calvet and Dr. Jean-François Hoffmann, researchers working at the intersection of renewable energy and materials science. The company grew out of the Masdar Institute ecosystem and is supported by clean tech programs like The Catalyst, with early backing of around $150,000 and more than $2 million invested in research and development over time.

24 7 renewable energy: how solar, wind, batteries and AI SaaS replace fossil fuels

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu Dhabi makes something clear that many in the industry already suspected. When solar and wind are paired with battery storage, they can deliver reliable, round the clock electricity at costs that compete with, and often beat, fossil fuels.

A summer of sugar wax or time for laser treatments? The environmental answer

Green Prophet readers know we write a lot about hair. We have covered the halal and the haram sides of hair removal for Muslims. We have written about sugar waxing, Persian sugaring, threading, and the beauty secrets that came out of the Middle East long before salons started calling them trends. Our articles on sugar wax broke the internet a few times. 

Make paper mache with flowers to create stunning vase

There’s something quietly beautiful about what Rebloom Studio is doing, and it starts with waste. At wholesale flower markets, mountains of unsold blooms are tossed out at the end of each cycle. Perfect flowers, just not sold in time. Most of them are burned or dumped. Rebloom takes that moment and turns it into something else.
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