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Take Your Team To Lebanon's Ecovillage

Get Your Green On in The Dmit Valley Ecovillages are slowly sprouting in the Middle East.  There's Kramim in Israel's Negev Desert, as well as...

Welcome Home: Meet Theo Who's Running Jordan's Alternative Eco Aqaba House

Dutch native Theo van de Laar exposes the eco secrets and paradise he entertains through The Aqaba House, an eco-friendly guest house he runs...

How to create a food forest garden, by Martin Crawford

This book is unusual.  Firstly, by virtue of covering the topic of forest gardening at all, but also unusual in another respect. Many gardening books...

Baby Croc Harry Dies in Dubai: Another Animal Abuse Case?

Poor Harry: At least he won't wind up being a hand bag We've written about animal abuse cases in the Middle East before, including an...

Rebuilding Abu Dhabi's Coral Reefs One Disc at a Time

How Many Discs Will Save Abu Dhabi's Coral Reefs? We have a long history of worrying about the Middle East’s coral reefs.  These “rainforests of...

Endangered Baboons and Hyenas Rescued from Private Home in Abu Dhabi

One of the hyenas confiscated from a home in Abu Dhabi. Fifteen baboon monkeys and two striped hyenas were rescued by environmental officials from a...

Is Willie the Grey Whale Lost or Looking for Club Med? (VIDEO)

"Extinct" grey whale sighted off Israeli coast, 8,000 nautical miles from home. Lost or making a comeback thanks to global warming? (In the above...

Toads Could Predict Deadly Mideast Earthquakes Months in Advance

Honey, was that you moving, or should we take that as a sign for an earthquake? Image via Ryedo Grrrrrrrrrebit! This may seem a bit...

Rebranding Yemen With $1 Billion Tourism Campaign. Will It Be Eco?

Diversifying away from oil Yemen plans to build six beach resorts over the next five years to draw tourists. How much will be sustainable? The...

Unholy Waters: The Jordan River is Nearly Dead, Maurice Reports

Up close and personal. Karin gets a "sniff" of sewage pipe pouring into the Jordan River. This folks, is the source of the lower...

Cairo's Green Lung – Al-Azhar Park

From garbage dump to municipal park. The impressions of Alexandria I shared in a recent post were largely negative, so here I'll present a happier...

Are Sunnier (Greener) Days Ahead for Alexandria?

Despite its impressive shoreline, Alexandria - the self-proclaimed "Capital of Arab Tourism" - seems to be a city in decline. (Hint: watch out pedestrians). When...

Blame BP for Massive Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill?

This Gulf of Mexico oil spill may make Exxon Valdez seem like child's play. Image via MNN The massive oil spill in the Gulf of...

Iron-Rich Whale Poop Essential in Middle Eastern Marine Habitats

Big recyclers and important for carbon storage: New evidence explores how important this large mammal is for regulating nutrients in the sea. What does whale...

Israel Bars Fishing In Sea of Galilee

It happened to St. Peter when his nets came up empty. Now, new two-year ban on Sea of Galilee hopes to replenish sea nearly...

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

Jewish Vegan Life has launched a global campaign celebrating the New Year for Animals, with synchronized events in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Jerusalem, alongside an international livestream on August 9 featuring partners including Mercy for Animals, The Good Food Institute and Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary.

The Space Orchestra, and the search for extraterrestrial life, to eclipse celebration

The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

Jewish Vegan Life has launched a global campaign celebrating the New Year for Animals, with synchronized events in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Jerusalem, alongside an international livestream on August 9 featuring partners including Mercy for Animals, The Good Food Institute and Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary.

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Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.
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