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Eco-Rabbi: Parshat Vayechi – What’s in a Blessing?

Orthodox Jews read a segment of the Five Books of Moses each week so that they can complete the entire Five Books within the...

Recycling and Deifying Donkey Dung in Israel

The Christmas season in Europe is often silly season for the world's media outlets, when they outdo each other to find the strangest, weirdest...

Eco-Rabbi: Parshat Miketz – Making all of the Years Years of Plenty

Joseph was sent down to Egypt by his brothers to remove him from the picture. Their father had favored Joseph and his brothers were...

Eco Rabbi takes the Hanukkah Challenge!

Ever wonder why every day of Hanukkah we add another candle? The Jewish religious source the Talmud explains that this disagreement goes back to the...

Eco Rabbi: Parshat Vayeshev – Love the Land and it Will Love You Back

Traveling through the mountains of Judea I am always struck by the stark contrast between the mountainous areas where there are villages and where...

Eco Rabbi: Parshat Vayishlach – Waste Not Want Not

Living green is about not being wasteful. If you save up a little bit at a time it adds up! David Bach in “The...

Eco Rabbi: Parshat Vayetzei – Working Together

In this week's segment Jacob leaves his parent's home. Jacob just out-maneuvered Esau, his brother, for the birthright and now Esau wants revenge. Jacob...

Muslims Should Waqf for Water Because It’s Good for the Environment

The video is a bit slow to start and speaks to a somewhat unsophisticated audience, but it introduces an important concept of charity in...

Ran Morin And How He Relates to the “Nature” of the Middle East

Famous for his Orange Suspendu sculpture in Jaffa, I had the pleasure to interview environmental artist Ran Morin. Rarely granting interviews with the press,...

Eco-Rabbi: Genesis and Environment

"Look at My work, how beautiful and perfect is everything that I created. I created it for you. Be careful not to ruin and...

Yom Kippur: A Day Without Cars in Tel Aviv

Kids on bikes cruise past Azrieli towers. A couple of years ago I read a book called Carfree Cities, which put forward a very convincing...

Yom Kippur, The Greenest Day of the Year in Israel

In a few hours Jews in Israel will start the annual holiday Yom Kippur, and a day-long fast. It is by default, the greenest...

Green Holiday Celebrations Continue with a Green Sukkah

After celebrating Rosh Hashana sustainably this past week (even making pomegranate-nut salad for that extra special touch), some of us may be looking forward...

Start the Year Right with a Sustainable Rosh Hashanah

With the Jewish new year coming up in next week, some of us are thinking about green new year's resolutions and lifestyle changes that...

Have a Healthy Ramadan: Greening Your Fast

We're now just over a week into Ramadan, and hopefully those of you that are fasting have settled into a comfortable routine.  For any...

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Finding the Right Surfboard Is Less About Looks Than You Think, a Guide With Nate Panza

Choosing the right surfboard is less about appearance and more about matching the board to your body, experience and local waves. Surfer Nate Panza explains the basics of volume, board shape, fins and design so surfers can make smarter choices.

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Gluten-free ptitim orez is also made by Eshbal Functional Food's Barili Free Living line of gluten-free products.

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Drinking Mercury in La Paz uses photography, sound, video and installation to reveal how mercury pollution from gold mining moves through water, ecosystems and people.

Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

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Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

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EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.
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