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Review of Leo Hickman’s ‘A Life Stripped Bare’

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Arwa offers a 6 step guide to greening your Ramadan holiday.  With the month of Ramadan quickly approaching, Muslims across the world are beginning to...

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Wear Your Baby in a Sling for Eco-Benefits

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Haitians Test the Pee-Poo Bag: A Sanitary Solution for Crises in Middle East?

When sanitation pipes break, or they don't exist at all, the Pee-Poo solution could alleviate risks from faecal pollution in the Middle East. “Flying...

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The Tower of Silence, a "green" and ancient burial site in the West of Yazd, Iran.

Kristiane Backer – An Eco-Muslim

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Green Prophet Flies To “The Ornithological Society of Kuwait”

A weekly Green Prophet series that looks at the Arabic "green" blogosphere and online communities. After looking at a personal environmental blog from Lebanon...

Celebrating Mehregan, The Persian "Nature" Festival of Autumn

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Dubai's Ekotribe To Open Online Mideast Ecostore (Usable Bag Giveaway!)

Live in the Middle East and not sure where to get eco-friendly products?  Check out the Green Eco Store. Ekotribe, a Dubai-based company started earlier...

Tips to consider before buying beauty products

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5 Good Reasons to Eat Watermelon this Summer

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Tips and guide to make a Muslim wedding even greener

Learn how to reduce the carbon footprint of your wedding with tips from eco-Muslim Rianne ten Veen. Image via Amrufum The sun is shining and...

5 Environment Stories To Weep Over (For Tisha B'Av)

The Jewish holiday Tisha B'Av starts tonight. It gives one license to be sad over the state of the environment. We know that it's...

Green Prophet Flies To "The Iraqi Environmental Blog"

Our weekly series looking at the Middle East Arabic blogosphere. This week: Iraq. And a green blog that began after Saddam Hussein's demise. After...

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If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

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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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Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

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

Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology.

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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