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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,...

How to green your dorm without going broke

Moving into a dorm is one of the first chances many students have to create a space of their own. It's also the perfect...

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...

Are Green Activists Devoted, or Suffering from Disorders? You decide.

Sunday's New York Times featured an environmental article ("Extreme Approaches Toward Living a Green Life") with an interesting twist.  After describing what many everyday...

Enduring Protracted Tales of Eco-sheds in "Almost Green"

Freelance writer James Glave has successfully turned the planning and construction of a shed on his property in British Columbia into a thriving trade. His...

The End of Suburbia – Coming to Israel Soon?

Last week, Green Prophet Daniella Cheslow got her teeth into The End of Food, a book which critiques, and predicts the decline of,...

Yom Kippur: A Day Without Cars in Tel Aviv

Kids on bikes cruise past Azrieli towers. A couple of years ago I read a book called Carfree Cities, which put forward a very convincing...

Yom Kippur, The Greenest Day of the Year in Israel

In a few hours Jews in Israel will start the annual holiday Yom Kippur, and a day-long fast. It is by default, the greenest...

Daniella Relishes 'The End Of Food' by Paul Roberts

For those readers about to participate in tonight's Yom Kippur fast, Green Prophet Daniella Cheslow offers up many reasons why we need to think...

Green Holiday Celebrations Continue with a Green Sukkah

After celebrating Rosh Hashana sustainably this past week (even making pomegranate-nut salad for that extra special touch), some of us may be looking forward...

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.
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