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Eco Rabbi – Hanukkah and the Importance of Spreading the "Green" Message

This week we begin our celebration of the festival of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights. The main event of Hanukkah...

Jordan Asks Thailand to be a Rainmaker

Cloud seeding in Beijing, where silver iodide is fired with canons into the clouds to induce rain. (Photo from Howstuffworks.com) As the fourth driest country...

Greenpeace Petition Calls on Netanyahu to Attend Copenhagen Climate Change Summit

Lebanon's Prime Minister is going, but Israel's won't. Locals sign petition to get its PM to Copenhagen. Sick of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...

Greening Hajj and Madina for the Muslim World

Hajj is either starting or it's already over, and millions of participants have returned to their countries of origin or are starting to prepare...

Arabs Are More Than Oil, Says Lebanon's IndyACT Before Copenhagen Climate Meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUEHgCSE9I0 In a pretty radical move, Lebanon's IndyACT organizes protest against what it calls Saudi obstructionism in climate change talks. Watch this vertigo-inducing video of...

Performed in Water, "Trout" Dance Connects To Nature and Oil's Impact

Dancing on water and the black water of "oil" Trout looks at a society's transformation. Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak’s latest dance piece, Trout, which...

Meet Noam Dolgin of the Green Zionist Alliance

Noam Dolgin is a Jewish environmental educator and the executive director of the Green Zionist Alliance (GZA). Based in Vancouver, Canada, he travels regularly...

Swine Flu Finds Hajj 2009

Muslims succumb to swine flu during annual Hajj pilgrimage. One of the biggest concerns to Saudi Arabian health authorities has unfortunately become a reality...

Inspire Collective’s ReUse 3 in Tel Aviv positions art as a social cause

Reuse design?  We thought Green Prophet had it pretty much covered.  We've brought you plastic dolls converted into lamps, plastic bags transformed into wallets, beer bottles made into beads, and lots more.  But the surprises keep on coming.

Start-Up Nation Book Looks at Israel's High-tech Industry, Gives Insight Into Clean Tech

The book was sold-out even before its official release on November 4, says Saul Singer, author and columnist from Jerusalem. Singer co-wrote Start-Up Nation with...

Lebanon’s Harissa Forest saved by a church

Lebanon's Harissa Forest is only 400 square hectares in size, but it is considered one of ten Mediterranean forest attractions from a sheer beauty...

Muslims Adopt A 7-Year Plan As Part of Islam's Green Agenda

Islam's holy city Medina is about to become green model for Muslim world. On November 4, 2009, UK-based the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), in...

Inter-faith Initiative Pushes to Mobilize Billions in Fight Against Climate Change

Nearly one month before the climate talks in Copenhagen begin, a crucial event to reach out to the eighty-five per cent of humanity who...

Making A Dent In The Postponed "Clean Up The World Day"

While most people in Israel went about their normal everyday routines, a considerable number of dedicated ones went out last Monday into the country's fields,...

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

Israeli eVTOL startup AIR has moved beyond prototypes, with a new Florida production facility, eight aircraft in production and about $50 million raised. How close is AIR ONE to your garage?

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Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Starbucks tested precision-fermented milk from Perfect Day in 2021, but is it hiding in your latte today?

Alien chemistry crashed through a roof in New Jersey

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Adidas wanted to sell one shoe. Then it stepped into a global culture war

Adidas Israel featured amputee runner Shalev Biton in its Single Shoe campaign, designed to let people who need only one shoe buy one instead of a pair. The local campaign has since sparked international boycott calls and an apology from Adidas.

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Europe’s mountain plants are paying off an extinction debt

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