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Acqua by Raha Shirazi: You’ll Never Take Water for Granted Again

A powerful short film by Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Raha Shirazi, Acqua will make you look at water with new eyes. Raha Shirazi's film Acqua is almost guaranteed...

Going Green for Your Wedding – 3 Reasons For the Earth

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The Garbage Women Of Turkey Turn Trash Into Trendsetting Handbags

Turning trash into art and employing women who have never worked for pay before -- two difficult tasks that Turkish company Çöp(m)adam accomplishes at once. Turkey's...

Contribute! Call for Cycling Literature From The Arab World

Are you lyrical about your two-wheeler? If so, contribute to a literature project on the humble bike It seems that the majority of people serenading...

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The Green Sheikh’s Eco-Hero: Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan

 The Green Sheikh explains why the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan is his eco-hero. Not all country leaders are alike but I admire...

Zabaleen Film Portrays Cairo’s Garbage City People

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Gaza’s Smuggling Tunnels Into an Underground Metro?

Palestinian artist Mohamed Abusal envisions converting Gaza's smuggling tunnels into an underground metro system. A small handful of Bedouin families living in the Gaza Strip...

Mass Weddings Are Going Green

Most recently, it was 50 couples tying the knot is a mass wedding in Dubai; last year, 163 Israeli couples reportedly married in a...

Hanging Laundry Photographs Help You Toss Your Dryer

Can Sivan Askayo's photographs convince us hang dry our laundry? What if art had the power to change our habits for the (environmentally) better?  Could...

Go Green With Jordan’s New Environment Generation

We speak with Alisa Ananbeh, a student leader on the environment, on going green in Jordan. Around six months ago, Alisa Ananbeh took part in...

Green Prophet’s 11 Eco Heroes of 2011

Our VIP list of 11 environment heroes for the Middle East 2011. If you don't know these people already, now is the time to start....

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

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Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

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Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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