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US Navy to Dispatch Mine-Detecting Dolphins to Strait of Hormuz?

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US Navy to Dispatch Mine-Detecting Dolphins to Strait of Hormuz?

dolphins, animal rights, persian gulf, arabian gulf, oil, marine mammalsThe US Navy has trained dolphins to detect underwater mines since 1960.

Last week the Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi denied that Iran had threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz – a crucial 54km wide strait through which Gulf countries export petroleum – but the United States press has been abuzz with reports that oil exports are in jeopardy.The Atlantic Wire recently reported that instead of dispatching a heavily-armed military arsenal in defense, the U.S. Navy is poised to send in a pod of mine-detecting dolphins. If this happens, it will be their 3rd tour of duty in the Persian Gulf.

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Terra Nex to Help Oman Build its own Solar Supply Chain

Susan Kraemer
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Terra Nex to Help Oman Build its own Solar Supply Chain

Oman-solar-investmentFossil-fueled til 2004, Oman is now making bold moves into solar

The Sultanate of Oman, despite its small population of under 3 million, is forming an unusual partnership arrangement with Terra Nex for financing and project development of solar infrastructure capabilities locally.

Terra Nex, a Switzerland-based wealth management company that develops investment opportunities, acts as a project and business developer in the Middle East, and it partners with institutional investors in Europe that are able to further the projects it develops.

In collaboration with the Middle East Best Select (MEBS) Group of Funds, Terra Nex plans to invest $2 billion to develop local solar power factories in the Sultanate, with the capability of producing 400 MW of solar panels a year.

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Professor Urges Regulations to Prevent Further Fatal Building Collapses in Beirut

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Professor Urges Regulations to Prevent Further Fatal Building Collapses in Beirut

green design, sustainable design, beirut, architecture, environment, safety, urban planning, green space, unsustainable developmentAt least 19 people have died following the collapse of a 1940s apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon on Sunday.

The owner of the 5 storey building that collapsed on Sunday  killing 19 people has been arrested. The Daily Star reports that Lebanon’s Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told local media that Michel Saadeh is being questioned about the apartment building that once housed 50 people in the Fassouh neighborhood of Ashrafieh – one of the oldest Christian neighborhoods in Lebanon.

Lebanese American Univeristy’s Assistant Provost and Interim Dean of the School of Architecture and Design, Professor Elie A Badr told Green Prophet that it is too soon to guess at the causes and underlying circumstances that led to this disaster, but that he recalls similar incidents in the past that suggest that the country has yet to learn from its mistakes.

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Sex Toys and Tips That Are Planet Safer

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Sex Toys and Tips That Are Planet Safer

mating green beetlesValentine’s Day is less than a month away. Here are a few ways to get green and sexy all over the planet. 

The PIP breast implant recall has Green Prophet readers worried. The breast implants filled with industrial-grade silicon instead of medical grade, can leak – leading to not so good health effects in adult women.

This is sad news for Green Prophets everywhere especially those that advocate safe and green sex, words that go together for a healthier, less populated planet. Looking ahead to better more loving news, next month is the internationally celebrated holiday of love, Valentine’s Day. Let’s accentuate the positive looking at options for adult toys like glass dildos and adult ways of celebrating sex, the Green Prophet way.

1. Enhance Your Breasts Naturally. Send these tips to your your lover. Eating foods like fenugreek can increase your bust size naturally, without any serious health effects, unless you consider smelling like Maple Syrup really bad!

2. Buy an Ofer Zick silicon sex toy.

Made from medical grade silicon which is unusual for sex toys: these are a little more expensive adult toys than most, but they are eco friendly, and sexy!

Zick, whose name rhymes with… you know… says this: “Design is the ability to recognize, analyze interpret and translate necessity to a new user experience. What this means is that you have to find something people need, and then give them the full experience. It’s not just functional; aesthetic issues are part of it too.”

Tina’s review on the products make us a bit queasy, in fact this whole topic does, but click above if you want to know more. Warning, according to our research at the site below, penetrative sex toys are not allowed according to Islam.

3. Visit the El Asira website for eco Muslims.

If you live in the Middle East and want to buy for an eco-Muslim or Muslimah, you can shop online at El Asira, a discreet online store that sells adult sex aids aimed towards a savvy international Muslim community.

Keeping with halal standards, Tinamarie finds, there are two entry points, no pun intended, one for men and one for women. The site offers oils, candles, lubes and nutritional supplements intended to increase innuendo of the sexual variety in the Muslim way.

If you have any other safe, green and loving ways to celebrate sexuality, please leave your notes in the comments section.

 

420 Pound Cow Brain Seizure in Cairo Deprives Egyptians of Tasty Dish

Tafline Laylin
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420 Pound Cow Brain Seizure in Cairo Deprives Egyptians of Tasty Dish

Food and Health, Mad Cow Disease, Cow Brains, Fried Cow Brain Sandwich, Sudan, Smuggling, Cairo, EgyptEgyptians will spend up to $6 a pound for cow brains, which are then deep friend and served in a pita.  

News that Cairo International Airport authorities seized 420 pounds of frozen cow brains last week has flooded the wires. Smugglers buy the brains for less than $1 a pound in Sudan and sell them to Egyptian specialty restaurants for nearly $6 a pound. The fourth such foil in just one week cost the three Sudanese men $1,500 in profit – a massive sum for this struggling country. Airport officials told AP on condition of anonymity that the confiscated brains will be burned. But here’s a question we have to ask: shouldn’t Egyptians think twice about eating fried cow brains?

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Geoscientists Say Oman is Sinking and Shrinking

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Geoscientists Say Oman is Sinking and Shrinking

rising sea levels, melting glaciers, climate change, global warming, oman, development, coastal erosionScientists discover that every year Oman loses a little bit more of its landmass to rising sea levels.

Within the next 100 years, global sea levels are expected to rise by at least 1 meter and swallow up coastal towns and cities – a reality from which the Middle East is not exempt. Already geoscientists from the German University of Technology have noted that in certain parts of the Gulf country Oman – the landmass is sinking and shrinking, Gulf News reports.

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Green Tours Across Palestine (PHOTOS)

Arwa Aburawa
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Green Tours Across Palestine (PHOTOS)

palestine-tour-eco-sirajThe Siraj Centre is offering walk and bike tours across the West Bank as well as an environmental-focused trip in 2012

The ‘Environment and Occupation Trip 2012’ tour will explore issues such as freedom of access to water and sanitation in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley. It will also be looking at deforestation issues and the tense relationship between Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Palestinians with regards to waste and pollution. The programme highlights includes visiting the city of Jericho, learning about the falling water levels of the Dead Sea and exploring permaculture projects in the region.

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Woman Builds Off-Grid Earth Bag Home in Turkey for $3,761

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Woman Builds Off-Grid Earth Bag Home in Turkey for $3,761

Kerry Bingham’s off-grid earth bag home in Turkey only cost $3,761 to build.

Everybody’s talking about earth bag construction lately, including The National, which reported this weekend that a British woman has built an earthbag home a la Iranian architecture Nader Khalili. Using dirt from her own 6,500 square foot plot of land, the artist and writer filled dozens of polypropylene sacks that were then stacked to create a striking circular structure overlooking Turkey’s magical Olympos Valley. Despite disbelieving critics, Kerry Bingham’s home is durable and doesn’t melt when it rains.

See this off grid solar solution kit for off grid inspiration.

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The Green Sheikh’s Eco-Hero: Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan

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The Green Sheikh’s Eco-Hero: Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Green Sheikh, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, environmental hero, green hero, eco warrior, desalination, marine biodiversity, environmental protection The Green Sheikh explains why the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan is his eco-hero.

Not all country leaders are alike but I admire those who spread wisdom throughout their country in order to enhance every single aspect of their people’s lifestyle, such as our former President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan. Aware of his instincts, our leader was an earth and desert lover who loved falconry and horses and bred camels in order to preserve the natural heritage of his country. His love for the environment and culture was infinite and he was committed to each member of society.

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Hydroelectric Dam In Turkey May Cause Environmental Catastrophe In Georgia

Julia Harte
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Hydroelectric Dam In Turkey May Cause Environmental Catastrophe In Georgia

A hydroelectric project in Turkey’s northeastern Ardahan district will change the flow of the Mtkvari River, the biggest water artery in the South Caucasus.

A planned dam in northeastern Turkey, the Beshik Haya cascade reservoirs, will divert most of the Mtkvari River from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, according to Georgia’s Green Party. This could trigger an environmental catastrophe, warns the group, not to mention a crisis in local foreign relations.

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Foster & Partners Used to be so Green. What the Bleep Happened?

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Foster & Partners Used to be so Green. What the Bleep Happened?

masdar city, green design, sustainable design, eco architecture, green building, foster & partners, greenwashingThis Foster & Partner’s project completed in 2004 is green and deeply respectful of its environment – why did they change their design approach? 

In 2004, Foster & Partners completed this gorgeous Chesa Futura apartment building in Switzerland using a combination of modern modeling tools and ancient construction techniques. Situated on the edge of a steep slope, it is a humble but striking project that demonstrates deep respect for its spectacular natural environment.

Nearly a decade later and the firm is still at the cutting edge of design with accolades up the wazoo, but we have to ask, what happened? How did Norman Foster go from this project, which boasts carbon-absorbing larch shingles, to the glass and steel monstrosities that define so many of their so-called green developments in the Middle East?

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Israeli School of Sustainability Funded By Major Polluting Firms

Arwa Aburawa
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Israeli School of Sustainability Funded By Major Polluting Firms

Israel Chemicals, which is a cause of major environmental hazards in Israel, is funding a School of Sustainability in Herzliya

With shale oil funding green education in Jordan and major polluting Israeli companies paying to set up sustainability schools, green education is looking more like ‘greenwash’ every day. It recently emerged that Israel Chemicals and Oil Refineries Ltd, will be the founding funders of the School of Sustainability at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. The two companies are better known for their environmentally unfriendly activities and exploitation of non-renewable resources such as oil and phosphates which are highly polluting.

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Woman Spins Camel Wool to Prevent Slaughter of 1.2 Million Wild Australian Camels

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Woman Spins Camel Wool to Prevent Slaughter of 1.2 Million Wild Australian Camels

camels, camel milk, greenhouse gas emissions, animal conservation, sustainable design, eco design

While the Arab world has close ties with their hardy camels, Australia considers their 1.2 million population of wild camels to be nothing more than pests. 

Camels are valued in the Arab world for their meat, milk, and leather, but in Australia, more than one million wild Dromedary camels are considered pests. They are also a source of greenhouse gas emissions since each releases one pound of methane into the atmosphere every year. (Read about giant plumes of gurgling methane that could fast track global warming.)

While this doesn’t compare with Australia’s coal pollution, last year Daily Mail reported that the government was considering a proposal to slaughter every single animal in order to “save the planet.” Unhappy with this plan, Helen Durrant with Camel Wool Products started making beautiful apparel of camel wool in order to prove that these animals are a valuable natural resource to be cherished, not culled. 

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Desertec Nation Algeria to Host Huge Solar Trade Fair from Germany

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Desertec Nation Algeria to Host Huge Solar Trade Fair from Germany

algerian-solar-desertec-diiOne of 3 North African countries leading  renewable energy development programs, Algiers is hosting a solar trade fair in May.

Algiers will be the place to be for utility-scale solar developers this May. The German trade fair specialists Messe and their Algerian daughter company in Algiers will hold a solar trade fair at the Palais des Expositions d’Alger from 7 to 10 May, 2012. As one of three North African desert nations now at the forefront of responsible climate legislation, through its ambitious solar plans and its participation in the visionary Desertec project, Algeria is ideally situated to host the event.

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Popular Egyptian Dive Spot Sharm el-Sheikh to be “Green” by 2020

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Popular Egyptian Dive Spot Sharm el-Sheikh to be “Green” by 2020

red sea, corals, pollution, carbon emissions, sharm el-sheikh, eco-city, green city, renewable energy, biodiversity preservationBiodiversity preservation, waste management, and securing water sources are just a few of the principles being applied to convert Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh diving destination into an “green city.”

Egypt’s Ministers of Environment and Tourism signed a tripartite agreement with the South Sinai governor to convert the popular Egyptian diving town Sharm el-Sheikh into a bonafide green city by 2020. The $.25 million deal signed by Dr. Mostafa Hussein Kamel, Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nur, Minister of Tourism and Major General Khalid Fouda, Governor of South Sinai earlier this week lays out a comprehensive plan for implementing a whole series of steps that will protect the country’s crown jewel of tourism. More details after the jump.

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