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Spend Sukkot Learning How to Eat the Ancient Way at Bel Ofri in the Golan

Karen Chernick
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Spend Sukkot Learning How to Eat the Ancient Way at Bel Ofri in the Golan

organic goats israelDuring the Sukkot holiday, visitors will be able to learn how to make olive oil, sweet wine, bread and cheeses the old fashioned way.

Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival, is a time when Jews attempt to get closer to nature.  They live in make-shift huts covered with thatched roofs, sleep outdoors, and celebrate fruits of different species.  Which is why Sukkot (which is coming up in a few weeks) is a great time to visit a farm.  There are lots of great farms in Israel – including organic goat cheese farms and educational farms intended to teach kids that farming can be fun – but when you’re trying to get your nature on it is probably best to visit one that lets you be a farmer for a day.  Such as Bel Ofri in the Golan, which is hosting special food and wine-making workshops during the holiday of Sukkot.

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Israeli Researchers Create World’s First Brain to Computer Interaction

Tafline Laylin
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Israeli Researchers Create World’s First Brain to Computer Interaction

population control, middle east, science, natureA new scientific breakthrough at Tel Aviv University is changing the conversation about what it means to be a “natural human being.”

With 7 billion people consuming the earth’s dwindling natural resources, a rising number that is rapidly reaching proportions that could collapse the planet, the question of artificially prolonging human life with technology remains a sticky one. If given the choice between letting a loved-one die in the face of a devastating accident or illness, or saving them with some kind of technological intervention, most sentient people would choose the latter. That’s human.

But where do we draw the line? Tel Aviv University researchers have created a technology that allows two-way brain to computer interaction – when previously only one-way communication was possible – taking the conversation to a whole new level. Matti Mintz successfully got a rat’s damaged brain to communicate with an artificial cerebellum, restoring the rodent’s disabled motor function and ushering in the possibility that a similar gadget could restore brain function to stroke victims or people with other brain injuries. This makes us wonder: in what way is technology changing what is means to be a “natural human being.”

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We Interview Bill McKibben: Be More Confrontational

Arwa Aburawa
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bill-mckibben-arrest-white-house-keystone-pipeline-tar-sands-350I speak to the recently arrested environmental author Bill McKibben, who insists that campaigners need to be more confrontational about their demands (and start wearing ties)

I think it’s fairly safe to say that Bill McKibben has had an eventful couple of weeks. As well as being imprisoned for three days at the end of August for protesting against the Keystone XL Pipeline project – which NASA climate scientist James Hansen has warned could mean ‘game over’ for the planet if given the go ahead – his organisation 350.org recently launched a campaign to promote green transport and he is currently touring the UK. I spoke to him in leafy and surprisingly sunny Cambridge where he was giving a talk at the KLICE and Faraday Institute Conference on ‘Faith and The Crisis of Sustainability’.

Fossil Fuel Industry Makes ‘More Money Than God’

For more than two decades, we’ve had clear scientific evidence telling us that if we are serious about keeping the planet habitable we must to stop burning fossil fuels. Yet all these years later and we are no closer to the elusive agreement or solution we are desperately after. Copenhagen, where the last major environmental summit took place, failed to convince leading polluters to cut their emissions to the extent needed. So where are we going wrong?

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“Green It” Shop Brings Green Urban Living to Tel Aviv

Karen Chernick
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“Green It” Shop Brings Green Urban Living to Tel Aviv

"green store israel"Green It is Tel Aviv’s new one-stop-shop for green urban living.

As the ecological movement becomes mainstream, more and more businesses cater to the green lifestyle.  We’ve seen this trend develop in the Middle East, with eco-friendly shops popping up in Beirut, fair trade shops in Masdar City, and even specialty stores focusing on one green product – such as organic clothes for babies.  Earlier this month another green shop – called Green It in Tel Aviv – joined the ranks of those other stores with products that it suggests people use for green urban living.  It describes itself as “the first store in Israel offering the best, newest and most advanced eco friendly products available”, and these products range from design, kitchenware, toys, children’s clothing and office supplies to electronics, literature, pharmaceuticals and textiles, too.

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Greenstone Revolutionizes Lebanese Building Industry One Green-Roof Villa at a Time

Tafline Laylin
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Greenstone Revolutionizes Lebanese Building Industry One Green-Roof Villa at a Time

green building, BREEAM, Lebanon, This may look like an ordinary villa on a hill, but it’s not. This villa is part of a growing movement in Lebanon that is revolutionizing the green building industry.

Instead of mistaking Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for happiness, or giant energy-hogging homes for class symbols, Lebanon could learn from Western regret by revolutionizing its green building industry. This won’t happen quickly since ongoing environmental catastrophes such as toxic waste and kerosene leaks into the Mediterranean Sea point to a slow progress, but definitive steps are being taken by concerned citizens to improve the country’s environmental profile and Greenstone Real Estate Developers are leading the way. As the firm edges closer to achieving high BREEAM rankings for La Brocéliande – a “bespoke” four-storey home in the Beirut suburb of Yarzé – a sustainable Lebanon seems increasingly possible.

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Under Siege in Iran, Baha’i Advocate Social Action, Human Rights, Sustainability

Tinamarie Bernard
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Under Siege in Iran, Baha’i Advocate Social Action, Human Rights, Sustainability

bahai gardens haifaMembers of the often persecuted Bahai faith are inherently green.

The terrace of the Baha’i Shrine and Gardens in Haifa is the most stunning destination in Israel’s third largest city. From the eastern side of the city, along the popular route 4, you first catch glimpse of it rising up towards the sky on your left. An expansive swath of green lawn manicured in layers and flanked by date trees span the height of the northern end of the Carmel mountainside. Year round and from a distance, the vision quite literally draws your gaze towards the impressive site, “a geometric cascade of hanging gardens and terraces down to Ben Gurion Boulevard -a gift of visual pleasure to the city that gave the Baha’i religion its home and headquarters.” 

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Solar Bottle Lights a Bright Idea for the Developing World

Karen Chernick
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Solar Bottle Lights a Bright Idea for the Developing World

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This idea is so simple, yet so brilliant.  Maybe it could help light up the Middle East?

Filipinos living in simple corrugated metal homes have had problems lighting their homes for generations.  Even since the invention of electricity, electric lighting has been used sparingly by certain communities due to its cost.  It is frustrating that Filipinos live in such a bright, tropical country and yet that some of them have been living mostly in the dark.  But now a creative and entrepreneurial Filipino man has found a cheap, easy, electricity-free (and eco-friendly) way to light people’s homes and is installing his lighting system one home at a time.

The materials needed to create the lights are simple: a clear plastic soda bottle, water, and some basic tools.

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Jerusalem’s Bus Station – A Pollution Death Trap for Workers and Shoppers

Maurice Picow
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Jerusalem’s Bus Station – A Pollution Death Trap for Workers and Shoppers

jerusalem bus stationShop till you “drop” at the Jerusalem bus station.

Working in a congested bus station, especially one like Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station is not conducive to one’s health. The toxic fumes created by the hundreds of buses that go in and out of this station, and all the free radicals in this air pollution is almost as bad as  “black cloud” infested Cairo Egypt, or Tehran Iran; where as many as 27 people die each day from air pollution .

A recent study was made by Israel’s Environment Ministry, and was reported afterwards in the Jerusalem Post. Findings? Pollution at this bus station includes high levels of ozone, sulfur dioxides, nitrous oxides and particulate matter made the level of pollution in the air four or five times greater than acceptable levels.

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3 Palestinian Men Killed by Wastewater Flood Beneath Gaza

Tafline Laylin
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3 Palestinian Men Killed by Wastewater Flood Beneath Gaza

Gaza, wastewater treatment, EgyptThree Gaza strip smugglers were killed when wastewater leaked into a tunnel, causing it to collapse.

Little is said about the drama that unfolds beneath Gaza each day, where many Palestinians continue to smuggle goods in from Egypt to the Strip. Although the Rafah border crossing was re-opened earlier this year and people can travel back and forth more easily than before, construction materials are still not permitted to cross borders; nor – naturally – are weapons.

But the subterranean smuggling business comes with a dangerous price. Three men were killed when Egyptian wastewater leaked beneath the Philadelphi corridor into a tunnel where the men were working. According to Ahram online, the tunnel collapsed three days ago, and the men were pulled out today in critical condition.

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HCL Clean Tech Finds Sugar for Ethanol in Mississippi Woods

Karin Kloosterman
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HCL Clean Tech Finds Sugar for Ethanol in Mississippi Woods

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Karin speaks with HCL Clean Tech CEO Eran Baniel (above) about wood to sugar developments in Mississippi.

It’s not every day that an Israeli company based on the science of a Nazi collaborator wins a huge US contract. But HCL Clean Tech, which offers a process to turn wood chips into biofuel, just received a $100 million bond package from the Mississippi state legislature to build plants in Grenada, Booneville, Hattiesburg and Natchez for products in the cosmetics, pet food, and lubricants industries.

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Seambiotic Makes Algae for Food and Biofuel

Karin Kloosterman
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Seambiotic Makes Algae for Food and Biofuel

seambiotic algae pondsSeambiotic, an Israeli clean-tech company is enlisting algae in the business of carbon capture.

While bureaucratic red tape has stymied Seambiotic’s commercial success in Israel, the pilot plant there has led to some positive developments for the company and the environment. Now, the company has five business deals in the works in the United States, Italy and in China, where it’s launching its first commercial algae farm this month. Seambiotic is also working with the National Aviation and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States to develop a commercially feasible biofuel variety from algae that has a higher freezing point that other plant-based biofuels from corn or sugarcane.

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It’s Official- Iran Has The Most Polluted Cities In The World

Arwa Aburawa
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It’s Official- Iran Has The Most Polluted Cities In The World

pollution-city-tehran-iran-whoAccording to a report by the World Health Organisation, Iranian cities are the world’s most polluted with some cities registering air pollution 20 times over the recommended upper limit

Iran is certainly not scoring a lot of ‘greenie’ points this month. First it hits international headlines for its brutal treatment of environmental activists campaigning to save an endangered salt lake and now they have been highlighted as having the world’s most polluted cities. And that’s if we ignore the whole nuclear power issue and the debacle over the recently freed US hikers accused of being spies. The WHO global survey on fine particle pollutants is the first of its kind and found that cities in Iran were amongst the worst on the planet for air pollution.

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Israeli Cyclists From All Over the Country Marked Green Transportation Week

Karen Chernick
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Israeli Cyclists From All Over the Country Marked Green Transportation Week

"tel aviv israel bike"Israeli bikers are hoping that the new year brings them greater cycling convenience and safety.

The Israel Bike Association isn’t a quiet or a shy bunch – they make their opinions about the importance of urban cycling known through naked protests and the like. Which is why it is not surprising that they protested the lack of government support for urban biking last week with a green transportation week celebrated across several cities in Israel (and the world).  Last Tuesday night around 400 cyclists and roller bladers could be seen on the streets of Tel Aviv, joined by other cyclists riding simultaneously in Jerusalem, Haifa, Kfar Saba, Ra’anana, Ramat Gan and Givataim.

“The dress code,” said Alek Mintz of Tel Aviv Roller, “[was] green.”

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Saudi Arabia Goes “Green” To Celebrate National Day

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Saudi Arabia Goes “Green” To Celebrate National Day

saudi national day green environment Saudis raise flags and wear green to celebrate 81 years of their eco-kingdom

Almost a hundred years ago, somewhere between 1900-1930, the tribes and sheikhdoms of the Arabian Peninsula were consolidated into the modern-day Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And on the 23rd of September, Saudi Arabia takes this National Day as a great reason to decorate their streets in a renewable green.

Eighty one years later, the Unification of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is an annual celebration for Saudis. People living in Saudi agree that ‘green’ is king of all the colours as even though the festivities are over, we still see children dressed in green t-shirts, cars painted green, and green lights illuminating buildings at night.

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Saudi Women Granted Right To Vote (And Save Planet)

Arwa Aburawa
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Saudi Women Granted Right To Vote (And Save Planet)

saudi-women-green-vote-planet-womens-rights-elections-environmentWhy women’s right to vote is important not only for gender equality but for the planet

It been a political roller-coaster of a year for the Middle East and it doesn’t look set to stop just yet. Yesterday, an event many thought would never happen in their lifetime finally happened- Saudi women were granted the right to vote. Not only did this de-bunk claims made by ‘Ethical Oil’ that Canadian tar sands were better than Saudi oil due to the latter’s gender bias but it also meant that women in the country were strengthening their ability to fight climate change and better resist the devastating impact it could have on them.

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