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Holy Green Monday for Lent! A planet-friendly Cyprus tradition

Last Monday, Orthodox Christians across the Middle East kicked off the 40-day Lenten season with a wonderful food-based tradition called Green Monday, when folks...

Saudi Arabia to grow world’s largest crescent-shaped Garden of Eden

Saudi Arabia is building the world’s largest botanical gardens on nearly 2.5 million square meters of desert land near Riyadh. A stellar environmental initiative...

“Pop Arak” Arakino raises eyebrows and elbows in Israel

There are usually no great surprises at the major wine festivals, which are held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. You tend to bump into...

Masafer Yatta: the Palestinian cave dwellers of Firing Zone 918 (photos)

Many environmentally aware people from the global middle and upper class choose off-grid living, though that lifestyle is usually supplemented with solar panels and...

This is what Jesus Christ’s “selfie” would look like

If Jesus had a Facebook account, this could be his profile picture. So says Richard Neave, a medical artist famed for reconstructing legendary faces from...

Lebanese inventor makes “alive” app for war-torn regions

"I’m alive." I’ve made that call, maybe you have too. That surreal statement instantly erases panic in whomever’s on the other end of the line. ...

8 green Valentine gifts that won’t put you in the red

A year has passed since I penned a sampler of how Valentine’s Day goes down in the Middle East. Tempus fugit, baby, that treacly...

No “Balls” allowed in Iran’s female soccer league

Here in the Middle East, the mash-up between religious beliefs and human rights can be breathtakingly surreal.  Take, as example, baffling contradictions within modern...

Danish zoo kills healthy giraffe to avoid inbreeding [video]

In the latest tragedy for animal rights, and it happened in Europe, a Danish zoo has reportedly shot and killed a perfectly healthy giraffe...

Nitrates and the dark side of intensive organic agriculture

Public awareness of healthy food products that are free of chemical additives, along with a worldwide demand to reduce industrial pollution, has led in...

Breastfeeding by law, in Abu Dhabi

According to Islam, being breastfed is a right for all children. Now Abu Dhabi has passed a clause in their Child Rights law that...

700 free e-books to up your Middle East IQ

Looking for some good reads about the environment and the Middle East? Then click yourself into the University of California Press (UCP) e-books collection...

Laundry soaps – is less more green? Jordanians Concentrate for the Environment

Jordan is cleaning up its act, at least in terms of laundry detergent, with a project entitled Concentrate for the Environment.  The voluntary, industry-led...

Teaching Tu B’Shevat in classrooms without borders

For many years Hebrew schools in North America barely related to the Jewish holiday of Tu B'shevat, New Year for the Trees. When I...

Happy New Year Trees, and spiritual reasons for Tu B’Shevat Customs

Tonight marks the end of the Jewish holiday Tu B'Shevat. The Jewish New Year of the trees. Here is an enlightening article on the...

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Drinking Mercury: How Art Makes Invisible Pollution Visible

Drinking Mercury in La Paz uses photography, sound, video and installation to reveal how mercury pollution from gold mining moves through water, ecosystems and people.

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Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

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