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Come Say L'Haim At The First Green Drinks In The Middle East

Green Drinks, the loosely organized and phenomenally successful international meeting group for green people of all walks of life, is starting up its first...

Eco Rabbi: Parshat Vayishlach – Waste Not Want Not

Living green is about not being wasteful. If you save up a little bit at a time it adds up! David Bach in “The...

Green Action Events: The SAHA Project Takes Off

Green Action's SAHA project brings together uniquely environmental and political issues promoting community trade between Palestinians, Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews. The project initially began...

Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva isn’t a writer to pull punches. By the twelfth page of 'Stolen Harvest' (2000), she announces a damning verdict on Western food production:

Alanna Mitchell's Dancing At The Dead Sea Is a Journey to the Heart of Environmental Crisis

"My story gathering has led me all over the world. Each journey took me to a perfect example of one facet of the problem...

Eco Rabbi: Parshat Vayetzei – Working Together

In this week's segment Jacob leaves his parent's home. Jacob just out-maneuvered Esau, his brother, for the birthright and now Esau wants revenge. Jacob...

Buy Nothing Day can save someone’s life or soul

A day before Buy Nothing Day in 2008 an American salesman lost his life, as bargain hunters in a Wal-Mart shop in Long Island trampled him to death.

DIY Heating: 2 Knitting Needles Studio

The winter months are fast approaching, and more of us are feeling the need to look for things to keep us warm - whether...

Muslims Should Waqf for Water Because It’s Good for the Environment

The video is a bit slow to start and speaks to a somewhat unsophisticated audience, but it introduces an important concept of charity in...

Ran Morin And How He Relates to the “Nature” of the Middle East

Famous for his Orange Suspendu sculpture in Jaffa, I had the pleasure to interview environmental artist Ran Morin. Rarely granting interviews with the press,...

Awaken Your Inner Green Prophet: Green Activist Volunteer Needed in Jerusalem

The leader of the Atid Yarok ("green future") environmental group in the Merkaz Hamagshimim community center in Jerusalem is leaving. Now Atid Yarok must...

Carlo Petrini's Slow Food, A Review

Slow Food has been garnering lots of attention lately, with an international convention in San Francisco in September and another in Italy just this...

Meeting Your Green Love

Winter is on its way, and with it the bone-chilling cold that penetrates every poorly insulated apartment in Israeli cities. Now is the perfect...

Eco-Rabbi: Genesis and Environment

"Look at My work, how beautiful and perfect is everything that I created. I created it for you. Be careful not to ruin and...

Gil brushes up on his "Natural Finishes"

Today's book review, part of our 'eco books review festival', is by guest writer Gil Peled: Jerusalem-based Israeli eco-architect Gil (who trained in architecture...

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

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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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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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