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Tigi Solar Honeycombs Keep You Warm in Cold Climates

Karin Kloosterman
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Tigi Solar Honeycombs Keep You Warm in Cold Climates

tigi solar honeycombIsraeli solar thermal collectors made like honeycombs trap more heat from the sun to heat homes in cold countries like Germany.

Israel is the land of milk and honey –– and solar hot water heaters. Practically every roof in Israel is fitted with a solar thermal collector to warm water for endless hot showers and hot water for the kitchen sink. Taking the idea of solar thermal hot water heaters to the next level is Tigi Solar, a new Israeli company that was inspired by the busy bee.

The inside of Tigi’s solar energy collector looks like a honeycomb. This unique shape helps collect more sun power more efficiently than regular solar collectors –– so efficiently that boiling hot water made from the sun can even be piped in to heat homes.

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Jo’Preneurs Sheds Light on Bright Ideas

Kelly Milone
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Jo’Preneurs Sheds Light on Bright Ideas

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I considered myself an entrepreneur at the age of 15, when I set up shop on the cobblestone streets across my dad’s apartment on the island of Lefkada, Greece, to sell stones I collected from local beaches and then decorated.  Although it was a great idea, and surprisingly lucrative, it probably wasn’t groundbreaking enough to have become a featured story for a project like Jo’Preneurs, a new social initiative happening in Jordan. 

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Abandoned Jag, BMWs and Mercedes Gather Dust at Abu Dhabi Airport

Faisal O'Keefe
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Abandoned Jag, BMWs and Mercedes Gather Dust at Abu Dhabi Airport

ferrari abu dhabi airport dustA fleet of fancy cars are gathering dust in the short-term parking lots at Abu Dhabi airport.

The car parks, walking distance from the terminals, are meant for stays of three days or less. You pay dearly for convenient location, air conditioned walkways and covered car bays.  That is, if you actually came back to collect your ride. Instead of costly convenience for frequent fliers, the parking lots at the Abu Dhabi airport are evolving into drop sites for unwanted wheels. Flat tires and sand-caked windows prove many have been there for months. These aren’t clunkers. Right now there’s a Jaguar XK8, a Camaro S5, and a convoy of BMWs and a mess of Mercedes.

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Eliodomestico is a Solar-Powered Desalination Device for the 99%

Tafline Laylin
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Eliodomestico is a Solar-Powered Desalination Device for the 99%

Eliodomestico, desalination, Gabriele Diamanti, green design, water scarcity, solar-power, cleantechWhat’s hotter than Italian-designer Gabriel Diamanti talking about a solar-powered desalination device for the 99%? Not much, except for the Eliodomestico that he built during his graduate studies at the Milan Polytechnic in 2005.

Following extensive travel to parts of the world that can no longer take fresh water supplies for granted, like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan and many other parts of the Middle East, Diamanti decided to build an open-source solar still that converts sea water into fresh water using nothing but sunlight. 

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Veganism Goes Viral in Israel

Tafline Laylin
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Veganism Goes Viral in Israel

veganism, Israel, Channel 2 News, Gary Yourofsky, The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear,It is very unusual to find a dinner or breakfast table in Israel that doesn’t include a smattering of meat and/or dairy products to choose from (depending on whether or not the family keeps kosher), which is why the revelation that tens of thousands of Israelis have embraced veganism in the last year is nothing short of revolutionary. Who or what is behind this phenomenon? In short: Gary Yourofsky and “The Best Speech You Will Ever Hear.”

During a charismatic hour-long speech given at Georgia Tech in 2010, the Jewish-American animals rights activist lambasts the murder of billions of animals each year. Thanks to a group of local activists who set up Gary TV and provided Hebrew subtitles, the YouTube video has been viewed 300,000 times in Israel, leaving many who watch it unable to put another animal product in their mouth.

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Free Essential Green Ideas Worth Spreading

Faisal O'Keefe
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Free Essential Green Ideas Worth Spreading

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It’s summer’s final lap. The Olympics are over.  The school year looms.  So put down that beach book and take an end of season vacation to explore space, both inside your head and out of this universe. Do it now. You don’t have to move a muscle. This five minute clip’s been flying around the internet, a sampler of ideologies from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, comedians George Carlin and Jim Carrey, neuroanatomist Jill BolteTaylor, and the late Carl Sagan. Not a preacher in the lot, and a few self-proclaimed agnostics, but they sure can spread a message to make an environmentalist shout Amen!

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Reconstructing Beirut by Demolishing its Identity

Linda Pappagallo
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Reconstructing Beirut by Demolishing its Identity

Solidere, destroying heritage Beirut, identity BeirutFar from being Paris of the Middle East, traditional red tiled roof and sandstone houses suffocate inside the “other” vision of Beirut

The Lebanese housing market is a bit of a strange phenomenon. A largely unregulated construction market coupled with grandiose projects from ambitious rich gulf state developers and Lebanese expatriates has created a surplus of largely unaffordable houses. The result is that Lebanon is becoming a haphazard dumping site for cement buildings with little regard of the preceding cultural, historic and environmental resources.

Similarly, many believe Beirut has also turned into a mismanaged affair.

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Israeli Army Building Arms Factory Over Rare Wild Plants

Maurice Picow
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Israeli Army Building Arms Factory Over Rare Wild Plants

Do tanks and wild flowers mix? Not according to Israel’s nature protection society.

Israel Military Industries (IMI), which for years has had armament factories located close to dense population areas and as such has polluted area groundwater, is now on its way to exposing its environmental footprint even further. The organization is planning to build a large military hardware and armaments factory in an area full of rare and endangered wild plants. Although Israel’s military has tried to reduce its carbon and ecological footprint by trying to “go green” and translate military secrets into clean technology the practice of building large armament factories near major population centers is now going to be expanded by building another armament factory and a housing project in an area near a present one close to the upscale suburban communities of Ramat Hasharon, Herzliya and Hod Hasharon, according to the JPost.

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Egypt’s Electricity Suppliers Struggle to Meet Demand

Brian Nitz
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Egypt’s Electricity Suppliers Struggle to Meet Demand

desert mountain sun egypt powerOn August 9th an electrical power outage hit people in parts of Cairo.  This happened only ten days after India’s massive blackout grew to cover 22 northern states and impacted 600 million people.  Both outages snarled traffic, stopped trains and turned off the lights for millions of people. But they also shared a common cause. When an event impacts 9 percent of the world’s population, it is reasonable to look for a root cause.

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Where do Cairo’s Zabaleen Garbage Sorters Stand Under President Morsi?

Tafline Laylin
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Where do Cairo’s Zabaleen Garbage Sorters Stand Under President Morsi?

Zabaleen, Egypt, Cairo, President Morsi, Clean Homeland Campaign, Recycling, Waste ManagementLocal press and environmentalists in Egypt claim that the unofficial garbage workers of Cairo – the Zabaleen – are being sidestepped by President Mohamed Morsi’s Clean Homeland campaign, which resolves to solve the country’s overwhelming garbage issue within 100 days.

This was a dangerous promise to make given that so many of the systems required for effective waste management have long since eroded in the capital (if they ever existed.) Meanwhile, the Zabaleen have been keeping Cairo from being completely buried by waste – all of their own accord – by collecting, recycling and sorting what they can. But the importance of the service they provide has long been overlooked by government.

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Tahini is also a Middle Eastern Pasta Sauce

Kelly Milone
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Tahini is also a Middle Eastern Pasta Sauce

boys eating spaghettiTry something a little different than plain-old tomato sauce on your pasta. Try tahini!

On my first night CouchSurfing in Haifa, Israel, in the cozy apartment of a young married couple, the three of us sat down, along with a local friend, at the table on the balcony to eat dinner – which, surprisingly, the men had prepared from start to finish, while the wife and I relaxed. There were more surprises to be had.

The meal was a nice pasta stir fry. I served myself a portion, and it was delicious, but little did I know that it would get better. The husband whipped out a bottle of organic roasted sesame tahini and started pouring some over his helping. Intrigued, although not expecting to fall in love with the combination, I tried some myself. I proved myself wrong; I fell head-over-heels in love. I love pasta, and I love tahini, so why did I think I wouldn’t love them together? Like strawberries and balsamic vinegar, or watermelon and feta, this unlikely food pairing turned out to be delectable.

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Riviera Seaside Art Gallery Features a Sand Floor and Gritty Art in Israel

Tafline Laylin
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Riviera Seaside Art Gallery Features a Sand Floor and Gritty Art in Israel

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Israel’s Mediterranean city of Bat Yam is pulling itself out of obscurity with one of the most unusual art spaces we’ve seen. Located just south of Tel Aviv –  the country’s most well-known seaside city, the Riviera used to be a thumping nightclub in the 1950s and 1960s. Now it’s a very yellow and open industrial-chic art colony and public gallery that features a sea sand floor and some seriously gritty street art. 

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4 Summer Rose Wines from the Middle East

Green Prophet
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4 Summer Rose Wines from the Middle East

rose wine summerRosé wine is gaining global popularity. Did you know that the Middle East with its long history of wine-making is producing some great rosés of its own?

The summer heat is upon us and if you’ve been smart you’re perfecting those non-cook recipes to beat the heat. If you like a glass of wine here and there, a good companion to a cold soup, salad, or Middle East mezze is a summer favorite – rose wine. If you’re a Muslim and don’t drink alcohol look for a non-alcoholic variety to suit your palette. Similarly our Jewish readers will find something to suit their taste in shops that cater to the kosher market. Today we’re going to look at 4 rosé wines made in the Middle East.

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Honest By Clothing Reveals its 100% Transparent Fashion Line

Maurice Picow
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Honest By Clothing Reveals its 100% Transparent Fashion Line

green fashionHonest By’s “transparent” green fashions leave nothing to hide

Going to the mall or outlet store to buy clothing is not the greenest thing one can do when the truth is known about what materials the clothing is made out of, as well as where and how it is made. Much of this clothing, even top line name brands, is often made in poorer locations  such as rural China, Bangladesh, India, and other places  where environmentally damaging dyes are used and clothing is sewn together by people working in sweat-shop and even slave labor conditions.

Finding companies that make environmentally friendly fashion products used to be difficult; but now more and more companies are producing such clothing that even is appeasing purchasers who are restricted by religious requirements of modesty and simplicity.

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Ronen Tinman Turns Junkyard Automobile Parts Into Bespoke Furniture

Tafline Laylin
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Ronen Tinman Turns Junkyard Automobile Parts Into Bespoke Furniture

recycled materials, Israeli design, Ronen Tinman, automobiles, junkyard, bespoke furnitureIt’s inevitable that even the best of automobiles will eventually find their way to the junkyard, but to Ronen Tinman, that needn’t be a death sentence. Determined to make use of “every ounce” of the materials that went into making BMWs, Citroens, Toyotas and Kawasakis, the Israeli designer relies on his mechanical engineering background to turn even the dinkiest of dented hoods, trunks, wheels, doors and disc brakes into bespoke lamps, chests, hall tables and cabinets.

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