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Searching For A Clean Stream In Israel, Or Anywhere

(A Christian woman about to be baptised in Israel's Jordan River.) Sunday was World Water Day, and lately with all the adverse publicity regarding the...

Beer Sheva's Earth's Promise Offers an Alternative Spring Break

For those of you familiar with the typical American college student spring break, you know that it generally entails transporting an Animal House environment...

Yossi Leshem Saves Birds and Pilots in Israel

The publicity surrounding the emergency landing of U.S. Air Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, was only the tip of the iceberg in regards to the growing dangers of collisions between aircraft and birds, particularly migratory waterfowl, at major airports around the world.

The Marvels Of A 2000 Year Old Olive Tree in Israel

The olive tree in this photo is reputed to be 2000 years old – give or take a century or so. It’s growing in a...

Monitoring Stations Installed in Qatar and UAE To Track Stressed Out Coral

(Snapshot of the WWF coral map of Qatar and UAE coral reefs). With worrying reports of coral death globally, with global warming to blame,...

Iran Battles Red Tide, A Soap-like Super Foam That's Killing Fish

In summer, Israelis battle jellyfish, an introduced species that came to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal. But that's nothing compared to what...

Praying for Rain in Jerusalem

Green Prophet's Ilana Teitelbaum recently wrote an article about Israel's water crisis at the Huffington Post. Rainstorms have been raging throughout Israel in the past...

Corals Get "Sexy" On The Sea Floor to Fight Global Warming

(A photograph of the female C. echinata coral, expelling its eggs into the water around it.) Research from TAU unlocks the secret of coral survival...

Abandoned Building Becomes Urban Bat Habitat in Israel

Sometimes the urban environment is an ideal place for wild animals. Here's an example: In 2006, Petach Tikva's two hospitals merged to form the...

Can the Cedars of Lebanon Survive Climate Change?

"So Hiram, King of Tyre, gave King Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire."-Book of Kings vs. 24 A...

Permaculture and Green Communal Living Through Eco-Israel

Last year's Eco-Israel group on a trip to the North. Photo courtesy Naomi Katz. Although winter has come to Israel belatedly in the season's heaviest...

Using Black Gold to Build a Greener Future: A Visit to the UAE

Last month, I had the unexpected pleasure of visiting Abu Dhabi and Dubai, two of the seven tiny kingdoms that together make up the...

What To Do on Tu B’Shvat in Israel

Tu B'Shvat is the Jewish holiday marking the beginning of a new year for trees, and is usually celebrated by planting trees and exchanging...

From Beer Sheva to the Negev: Hiking Out of Rocket Range

As a Green Prophet studying at Ben Gurion University, for the last two weeks I have been out of school due to rockets on...

Katan Adventures Puts the EcoloJEWcal (and Ecological) in Travel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqjOn1sxQw For those of you out there who may have been planning an eco tourist trip to Israel but have... ahem... postponed your plans for...

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

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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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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.

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

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