Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.
In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.
A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.
Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.
Association of Public Analysts President Dr Duncan Campbell was quoted as saying “The water is poisonous, particularly because of the high levels of arsenic, which is carcinogen. [sic] I would not recommend drinking this water.”
But is the Saudi government getting a bum rap on the safety of its holy water?
Climate change hits America’s Red States hard – but there’s plenty of wood waste there for clean biofuel energy production – that could head off even worse climate change
Politicians in America’s Southern Red States are notorious for decrying clean Renewable Energy Standards on the grounds that they have no solar or wind resources, and so they would be completely unable to meet mandates such as have been passed in all the Blue States.
In some cases, their response is as peeved as if they believe that the RES is a deliberate mechanism designed to disadvantage them, the way they think that Al Gore or the UN is out to get them in some way too.
Leaving aside the question of their supposed lack of wind and solar potential (cloudy northern New Jersey is number two in the nation in solar installations, despite much less sun than the Southern states) what the South has is trees. Lots of trees. And clean energy can be made from trees. Wood waste. And Israeli companies are in the forefront of turning wood chips into cellulosic sugars.
But now Israel’s HCL Cleantech Inc has been offered $100 million to build four plants in Mississippi to turn wood waste into sugars. According to local media, these cellulosic sugars from waste wood will be used to bulk up pet foods, lubricants and cosmetics.
But here’s what’s interesting…. The HCL Cleantech Inc website clearly positions itself as a clean energy producer.
Over the last thirty years, carbon emissions in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) have doubled with citizens in the Gulf states producing up to 10 times the amount of CO2 as the average global citizen
Awareness of the dangers of climate change may be on the increase in the Middle East but action to bring down the amount of C02 that is warming the planet sadly isn’t. According to recent study into the carbon emissions of the region over the last thirty years, the only direction that carbon emissions are going is up- and drastically. Carboun, the organisation that brought us the handy infographics (information as a graphic) on water use in the region and also the carbon emissions of countries in MENA, has published a report which found that whilst world average emissions per capita have stabilised, the carbon footprint of the Middle East and North Africa has doubled.
There may be a lot of things that IKEA is doing wrong for the environment, but ceasing to sell incandescent bulbs isn’t one of them.
Swedish furniture superstore IKEA has gotten into environmental trouble over lots of things, and at first some of the local Israeli population protested IKEA’s entrance into the market. The company does not exactly espouse sustainable furniture design, with its inexpensive and intended-to-be-disposable furniture. Even if it has increased design awareness in Israel, it continues to offer a cheap, easy alternative to more sustainable and eco-friendly home furnishings. The company’s most recent move may somewhat redeem it in the eyes of environmentalists, though – IKEA Israel has become the country’s first retailer to discontinue sale of incandescent light bulbs.
The protest at its height : nearly 400,000 people jam into Kikar Medinah in Tel Aviv
Israel’s seven week housing and economic protests against high housing prices and the rising cost of living in general is finally coming to an end with the dismantling of numerous ‘tent cities’ in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other locations from Kiryat Shmona to Ashkelon and Beer Sheva. Green issues, such as traffic congestion into Israel’s largest city, which was partially solved by building a “fast lane” to handle incoming traffic ; and green building designs for new housing projects had taken a backseat to more basic issues such as any kind of affordable housing and being able to finish the month on already insufficient salaries. These issues caused hundreds of thousands of Israelis to participate in huge public gatherings, including the largest one entitled March of the Million that in end did amount to over half a million participants all over Israel with the largest number, 406,000, being in Tel Aviv. Some were asking about a New Green Deal.
It’s taken Muslims 1432 years, but they finally have the beginnings of a guide to greening Hajj
From the first ever “cleansing”[1] pilgrimage to Makkah in 628CE by the Prophet Muhammad of Islam, peace be upon him, to last year’s environmental policies for Hajj put into place by the Saudi government, there has been greater action by activists wanting a cleaner Hajj. But there is no standard guide. Now, eco Muslims and Middle Eastern leaders are changing that.
New Israeli technology develops a safe, plant-based insect repellent.
If there’s one thing a housewife hates, it’s opening a package of flour and seeing the flour moving around in there. Up till now, the most efficient non-toxic way of preventing insect infestation was to keep everything in the freezer. Good news for the consumer and food warehouses: Israel’s Bio[pack] biotechnology company has developed a natural product that effectively keeps insects away.
Farms like these must be cut off from fossil water under the desert, now “as precious as gold”
With just 4 inches of rain a year, Saudi Arabia is already one of the driest places on earth. But unlike neighboring Israel, conservation is not part of the culture. Saudi water use is profligate, almost twice the world average of 500 cubic meters per capita annually.
But it’s not that cliche of oil-rich extravagance you might imagine (“Dubai Gets Frozen Air From Europe!“) It is just that almost everything takes more water in the desert, from growing food to harvesting oil wealth – in order to desalinate enough water – for a rapidly growing population. Saudi women, with little else to do, produce large families. So the Kingdom gets through 950 cubic meters of water per person per year. It now faces “peak water”, a far more serious threat to its economy than peak oil.
Already, the kingdom has made tough decisions. Like parts of Australia, that made a decision to stop growing food as water supplies crashed during its long years of droughts, Riyadh is now ending domestic wheat farming.
We know plastic is almost inescapable, but here are 6 excellent reasons to just say no!
It’s no secret. We hate plastic. We wish plastic had never been born, though we don’t really blame Alexander Parkes for inventing the stuff. How could he have known that a series of polymers bonded together would produce one of the most durable but harmful products to ever enter our food stream, our water ways, and our deserts?
In case you’re not convinced that plastic is the bane of life, check out our coverage of UAE camels that are killed by plastic, or the turtle that pooped plastic for a month. Emotions aside, we also realize that PET bottles and shopping bags are hard to resist because let’s face it, plastic is everywhere. So we wanted to shoot over a list of excellent reasons to just say no. We know it won’t be easy, but because you’ll have to come up with creative alternatives, you’ll thrive from being inventive, you’ll save the planet, and you are likely to end up with a bit of extra money in your pocket!
Qatar is currently in the process of issuing new guidelines which mean that all new mosques built in the country will be more environmentally friendly
From its humble beginnings during the time of the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) to modern incarnations, such as those futuristic designs envisaged for the green mosque of Cambridge, the Eco-Mosque has come a long way. Now, the Qatari government is assessing its building policies so that every new mosque built in the country will be based on environmentally friendly models which help save water and energy.
Turtles were considered evil in ancient Egypt. Locals apparently still haven’t forgot.
Human desire for the rare and exotic repast knows no boundaries. And while most Middle Easterners are happy eating domesticated animals such as the cow, and chicken, there are no limits on what they are willing to eat, and offer for dinner. Just recently a rare, and endangered 550 pound sea turtle estimated to be about 90 years old was saved from being an Egyptian dinner.
The lucky turtle, according to the Washington Post (via AP, 2022 link is down) the lucky reptile was picked up in a market in Alexandria, where its “owner” was offering to slaughter it. Inspectors got wind of the potential sale and handed the turtle over to the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries.
I met a famous Israeli cancer researcher who told me he ate lion. We all know about the problem with shark finning for shark fin soup in the United Arab Emirates. And if you follow Green Prophet you’ll notice that the region has some destructive passion for keeping wild animals at home – like dolphins in swimming pools. While I am more of a vegawarian than a full-out vegetarian, I do believe that the less of the animal kingdom we eat, the better able we are to protect the habitat that threatens them.
According to a study done by Mohamed A. Nada, team Manager of the “Save the Sea Turtle” Project in Alexandria 10 years ago, it was found in part 1 of this study that the main consumers of sea turtle products were the fishing community and the uneducated individuals living around the fishmarket. In his report: “They are considered to be the native Alexandrians; an ethnic society with their own language, accent, traditions, diet and personality, very keen to preserve their cultural identity, discouraging villagers coming from the nearby countryside to work, socialise and marry amongst them.
“They have, however, been unable to protect their culture from new immigrants. Sea turtle meat and blood consumption has decreased slowly, however it still occurs.”
The study included both loggerhead and green turtles and describes how the turtles are kept on their backs, alive, without food even for more than a week until they are sold.
Turtles speared by kings – known as “evil”
Turtles were not revered in ancient Egypt and this could explain the interest in eating them. According to Wikipedia, “As an aquatic animal, the turtle was associated with the Underworld. The turtle was associated with Set and so with the enemies of Ra who tried to stop the solar barque as it traveled through the underworld.
“The turtle was associated with night, and so came to symbolize darkness and evil. Since the XIXth Dynasty, and particularly in the Late and Greco-Roman periods, turtles were known to have been ritually speared by kings and nobles as evil creatures.
In modern times, from a legal point of view, Egypt is a signatory to four International Conventions that include the protection of marine turtles.
“African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources” (Algeria, 1968).
“Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species” (Bonn, 1979).
“Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora” (CITES) (Washington, 1973)
“Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution and its Protocols” (Barcelona, 1976)
I came across two massive, stinking and dead sea turtles on the Mediterranean Coast last year. I still wonder how they died, and why they died as a couple.
If you are a victim of global flooding, how do you want to float out?
If there’s going to be a global flood of epic proportions, we may as well approach it with imagination and style. That’s the thinking behind this crazy Water Capsule designed by Jay Stoughstenger. With global temperatures gradually increasing, there has been a corresponding increase in natural disasters and other global calamities that are often downright depressing. Perhaps weary of all this negative speak and eager to envision a soft transition to harder times, the Kuwait-based designer offers a more glamorous way to think about natural disasters, a way that encourages more a dream-like state than desperation or panic. And did we mention that these dreams are also “green?”
Providing teaching material to unite Holy Land faiths.
They’re doing in person and specifically in Israel what Green Prophet has been doing for the last four years: showing a faith based and cultural context in environmental action. Launched last year, meet the Jerusalem-based Interfaith Center working on issues like climate change.
Shema Yisrael is a statement of faith that many Jews say at bedtime, during daily prayers and in times of need. “Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is one” is the first line, emphasizing the monotheistic nature of Judaism.
For Rabbi Yonatan Neril, a 30-year-old married father of one, the second line in the prayer –“Blessed is the name of God’s kingdom forever” — provides hope for the planet. Seeing environmental degradation as a spiritual problem, he has turned to leaders of the three monotheistic faiths to right our ecological wrongs.
Yonathan Neril, co-author of Eco Bible coming out November 16, 2020
Since last year, Neril has been building the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development in Jerusalem. The six-person non-profit organization recently held the first interfaith meeting to formulate climate change policy, which impressively resulted in commitments of support from Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs (Waqf), the Palestinian Sharia Courts and the assembly of the Heads of Churches of Jerusalem.
“The second verse in Shema gives me hope and inspiration that there will be balance on this planet, that God’s glorious kingdom will be blessed forever,” says Neril, who was raised near Berkeley, California, and has lived in Israel for eight years.
“This is hope in the face of what scientists are saying about what will happen in this century,” he says.
Sponsored by the Julia Burke Foundation in California, his organization divides its actions into two spheres: one dedicated to fighting climate change, the other to providing ecological-theological seminars and college-credit courses to show how faith intersects with environmental values.
Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development members have already given about 25 “green theology” seminars. The courses are available online and are also offered to eco-tourists in Israel or locals looking for spiritual environmentalism tools. For now, the courses are focused on Jewish sources, but the center is working to include resources for Islamic and Christian audiences as well.
Quelling the effects of climate change
The Interfaith Eco Forum held at Jerusalem’s American Colony Hotel in July drew about 40 people, including representatives from all three monotheistic faiths. Neril pointed out poignant reasons for bringing faith into the equation.
“The widespread human degradation of the natural world indicates that our way of life is out of balance,” he says. “This is where religions come in — to be a force for positive change in the world. And there is no better place to begin than with religious leaders here in the Holy Land.”
Religion can be a force for positive change, says Rabbi Yonatan Neril.
He sees the multi-faith paradigm in Israel as an advantage rather than as grounds for more conflict. “People of many faiths draw inspiration from their respective traditions to live sustainably, and these efforts cross-pollinate each other and encourage coexistence on our shared planet and in this land,” Neril says.
The forum attracted worldwide media attention and featured talks by Dr. Michael Kagan, the initiator of the Holy Land Climate Change Declaration endorsed in April by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land; Bishop William Shomali of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem; Haj Salah Zuheika, deputy minister of the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Religious Affairs; and Rabbi David Rosen, the American Jewish Committee’s international director of inter-religious affairs.
Speaking for and to the Muslim people in the Holy Land, Zuheika spoke about the roots of environmental awareness in the Koran, pointing out today’s special challenges in the region.
“The earth is like our home, and those who live in the same home should know how to live together,” Shomali declared at the forum. “The main religions should study ecological issues together because we have a common destiny. We need to put all of our energies together to solve the environmental crisis, which is ethical, moral and spiritual.”
Don’t freeze them! Use fresh herbs parsley and coriander packed into a Middle East omelet.
In my native Canada, green herbs like parsley and dill are an afterthought; a sprig garnishes a dish, some chopped herbs are sprinkled on a soup. But here in the Middle East herbs take center stage. Parsley and coriander (or cilantro as it’s often called) are special favorites. And I love using them in a quick local version of the omelet, made with fresh organic, free-range eggs. Or eggs raised at home if you farm for eggs, like Karin does in Jaffa.
Green-fingered activists will be flocking to Jordan to attend the tenth International Permaculture Conference this September
Over the last thirty years, carbon emissions in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) have doubled with citizens in the Gulf states producing up to 10 times the amount of CO2 as the average global citizen
It’s taken Muslims 1432 years, but they finally have the beginnings of a guide to greening Hajj
Qatar is currently in the process of issuing new guidelines which mean that all new mosques built in the country will be more environmentally friendly
