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Review of 'The World Without Us' by Alan Weisman

Could nature ever obliterate all our traces? How would it undo our monumental cities and public works, and reduce all our myriad plastics and...

Don't Be a Bag Lady, Use One Less Bag

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oZLw_QINf-E Everyone knows how terrible plastic bags are. They take hundreds of years to biodegrade, pollute our landfills and waterways, and most plastic bags...

Ecolnoa ‘Eco-Cinema’ Film Festival In Jerusalem

If you love the moving image as much as us here at Green Prophet, and believe in its power as an agent of change...

Connecting Man To The Land Through Wine, From Israel

(Image credit: Micah Vaadia, winemaker at Galil Mountain) After reading and enjoying Green Prophet’s post on biking the Israeli wine scene, Green Prophet was kind...

Uri Rosenwaks' "Garbage Country" Premieres at Eco-Cinema

This is some advance publicity for a film I haven't yet seen, but it comes from a highly talented Israeli director Uri Rosenwaks, who...

One Industry's Junk Is a Child's Treasure: Recycling Workshops at the Israel Museum

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is currently undergoing a massive renovation of its structures, but it emphasizes renewal in more ways than one.  As...

Guide to greening your wardrobe

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness -Mahatma Gandhi It was my first year of university and I had...

Bag It Up: Inbal Limor Recycles Plastic Bags Into High Art

There are lots of ways that you can reuse plastic bags, but I bet most people have never considered putting them in a frame...

The Hills are Alive: Music Goes Green in Jerusalem's Valley of the Cross

I’m a firm believer that people should make good use of nature (sustainably, of course) and not just fence it off in reserves and...

Wake Up and Smell the Recycled Roses: Yoav Kotik's Spring Exhibition at Periscope Gallery

It's the spring exhibition season in Tel Aviv, and the art world is blooming.  Blooming with new shows, new artists, and new ideas.  And,...

'Facing The Change' Anthology

Feeling gloomy and despondent about Climate Change? Do you feel, like my dear Welsh friend Tim in London whose default position on this (and...

Reuse It or Lose It: How to Paper-Mache

In honor of international Earth Day, which was on April 22nd, we'll be devoting a series of posts this week to Israeli ventures and...

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Review of the Film 'Khadak'

Mongolia, nestled between twin superpowers China and Russia, is home to the world's last truly nomadic population of herders, living seasonally across the vast...

Reuse It or Lose It: Logging On to Online Re(use)sources

In honor of International Earth Day, which is today, we'll be devoting a series of posts this week to Israeli ventures and businesses that...

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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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