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Syria Campaigns to Curb Country's Voracious Plastic Bag Appetite

Estimates of 15 million bags per day consumed in Damascus alone! Moshe uncovers news in Arabic - that Syrians are launching a campaign to...

Smokers Decompose Slower Than Non-Smokers

"Smoked pigs" decompose slower than those that don't smoke. (They were actually injected with nicotine). With smoking rampant in the Middle East, and rates in...

Greenpeace’s Flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, to Grace Tel Aviv and Haifa’s Harbors

Put down your matkot and take a tour of Greenpeace's flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, this week. Beachgoers on Tel Aviv and Haifa's shores will be...

Book Review for Light Summer Reading: French Lessons by Peter Mayle

If you like to beguile the slow, hot summer hours with a good food book, you will love this one. Author Peter Mayle, famous...

Clare Dissects Post-apocalypse Britain in 'Everyone Can Be a Hero'

I have quite a taste for post-apocalyptical fantasies myself (such as Cormac McCarthy's chilling 'The Road', reviewed here earlier on GP), so I picked...

Seven Tips for Modest Moms: Choosing a Green Breastfeeding Cover

For many mothers in the Middle East, breastfeeding in public is an issue because of modesty. In my post on breastfeeding in hijab, I...

Libya's Pivot Irrigation in the Sahara Proves Money Can Do Anything

Libyan pivot irrigation at Al KHufrah Oasis: These are not crop circles or part of an Alien movie plot! Libya, in North Africa, now drilling...

Libya Touts Great Man-Made River as 8th Wonder of the World

To make up for the gap in its traditional supplies, the Libyan government, headed by Gaddafi, undertook the largest civil engineering project in the world, popularly known as The Great Man Made River Project (GMMR), to green the northern deserts of Libya

Red Sea Spill Causes Oil Company Stocks to Drop

A Maridive rescue boat. It's as though oil drilling has reached a holding pattern off the Red Sea coast of Egypt as the media,...

Palestinian and Israeli Wind Companies Create Energy Venture for Peace

Ira wrote about the Palestinian-Israeli wind power cooperation deal last week. Karin updates us with details on how Brothers Engineering Group plans on rolling...

GE Ecomagination Centre in Masdar City

Abu Dhabi's oil wealth funds energy infrastructure transformation with General Electric at the helm. In 2005, a light bulb went off for GE, which pledged...

4 passive energy environmental solutions from the Middle East

When we think of the environment today, the West looks like the clear leader. But did you know that some of the world's most important discoveries originated in the Middle East?

Eco-Tripping With The Wood-Auster Family – From Australia to Israel

An Australian family of five goes on a 5-month worldwide eco-tour. Their adventure begins at Kibbutz Lotan in Israel as GoEco volunteers for 5...

Engineers Without Borders (Middle East) Build Biowaste Reactors in Nepal

Engineering students from Israel's Technion have developed an anaerobic digester to help solve fuel and pollution problems in Nepal. Inspired by a lecture from Bernard...

Prince Charles on Islam and the Environment

Prince Charles delivers a speech targeted to Muslim population and how it mobilize to quell environmental problems, such as over-population in the developing world....

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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.

The Myths Killing Your Fleet’s Carbon Numbers

Truck maintenance is more than an operating expense. From tire pressure and engine efficiency to idling and unexpected breakdowns, discover how smarter fleet maintenance can reduce fuel consumption, lower carbon emissions and improve sustainability reporting.

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Good gardens start with good seeds. Learn how to choose reliable seed companies, avoid poor-quality seeds, understand heirloom and hybrid varieties, and store seeds for better germination.

La Profumoteca: The Sicilian perfume shop that remembered my daughter’s first scent

Seven years after creating her first perfume in a small Sicilian shop, my daughter had just three drops left. A family-owned perfumer in Palermo helped us recover the scent of her childhood.

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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.

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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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Good gardens start with good seeds. Learn how to choose reliable seed companies, avoid poor-quality seeds, understand heirloom and hybrid varieties, and store seeds for better germination.

La Profumoteca: The Sicilian perfume shop that remembered my daughter’s first scent

Seven years after creating her first perfume in a small Sicilian shop, my daughter had just three drops left. A family-owned perfumer in Palermo helped us recover the scent of her childhood.

Beyond the Beetle Bag: Pilsok transforms car airbags into a jacket that honours Ukrainian rescuers

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.

China brings back battery swapping for electric trucks. Remember Shai Agassi and Better Place? We do

CATL is building thousands of battery-swap stations for electric trucks. Can China succeed where Israel's $850 million Better Place experiment failed?

Rainwater nowhere is safe to drink

As winter rains approach the Middle East, scientists warn that PFAS forever chemicals contaminate rainwater worldwide, even in Antarctica.
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