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Dubai’s Eco Maid Is Green And Orange

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The Little Black Dress Is Not For Dubai

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A Guide To Green Blogging For Muslims

Want to attract Muslim readers and help them switch to a green way of life? Well, here's how. A couple more weeks of blogging...

Innovative Israeli Burials Save Land Resources

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Are Sea Burials Greener Than Land?

A body is prepared for a "full sea burial". Note iron weights alongside the remains. Following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Ladin...

Eco-Funeral? Jewish Burial Rites Are Green.

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The Latest Most Urgent Reason To Breed And Consume Less

By 2100, at least ten billion people will devour the planet. At a recent film screening in Al Ain, one female student asked: "what's the...

Sexual harassment against women in Muslim countries

Conservative Muslim bloggers and women’s rights activists bring harassers and inadequate legal and cultural protection to task, with women leading the charge. Women’s rights are...

Strip Naked for the Dead Sea and Spencer Tunick

The Naked Sea installation is intended to draw attention to the declining environmental situation at the Dead Sea. Will you get naked for the...

Help Save The World’s First Green Synagogue

Help save the world's first green synagogue which is currently under threat of closing down due to financial difficulties Here at Green Prophet, nothing makes...

Competition: Calling All Future UAE Eco-Bloggers

UAE high school students have a chance to flex their eco-blogging muscles for Green Prophet's writing competition. Green Prophet is launching a blogging competition for...

Book Review: Plastiki – Across The Pacific Ocean On Plastic

A good friend of David de Rothschild's, Treehugger founder Graham Hill takes the Plastiki helm Theirs was one of 2010's most talked-about, scoffed-about, and dreamed-about...

The Rising Voices of Arab Women – From Social Activism to Eco-Feminism

Defiant women, some "worth 100 men" are reshaping the Arab world in grassroots activism. While news of a minority of Muslim women in burkas...

Connecting the Profound: Jewish Passover and the Environment

Tomorrow night the Jewish holiday of Passover begins. The holiday marks the time when the Israelities left Egypt as slaves, and entered the land...

Online And In Dubai Ekotribe Caters To The Green-Minded

Where there's a green will, there's an eco-way, and Anu Agarwal will be leading the fray. Nearly 40% of Ekotribe's customers hail from the neighboring...

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Where to Stay Near the Pitons, From Ladera Resort to the Soufrière Coast

Can saving nature bring enemies together? Drawing on two decades of environmental reporting across the Middle East, Karin Kloosterman explores how solar energy, shared water resources and ecological cooperation could become the foundations of peace.

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Ukrainian design studio Pilsok, known for its popular Beetle backpack, transforms discarded car airbags into a striking designer jacket honouring Ukraine's emergency rescuers.

PeaceTech is the next CleanTech. And we’ve been building it for decades.

From the forests of Ontario to sea turtle conservation in Lebanon and water cooperation across the Middle East, Green Prophet founder Karin Kloosterman argues that CleanTech, EnviroTech and AgTech are already building the foundations of PeaceTech.

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