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Eco-Massage Oil Is ‘Trust in a Bottle’

Tinamarie Bernard
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Eco-Massage Oil Is ‘Trust in a Bottle’

A grape seed, avocado and apricot kernel massage oil is great for eco-intimacy.

Recently, the developer of an environmentally friendly, vegan and kosher natural oil for massage and intimacy contacted your Green Love editor with a delightful request. Review their product – TRUST – for the eco-conscious audience in the Middle East.  Being ardent advocates of greening our love lives, we agreed to do the deed; after all, we live in a region that could benefit from a whalloped-sized injection of trust, sweet trust. “We believe the sentiment of personal ‘trust’ is essential to any healthy relationship. We further believe that a soothing massage with your loved one may promote intimacy and thereby contribute to a healthy relationship,” Daniel Ray, founder.

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Global Land Grabs: Benefits, Emerging Dangers, and Growing Anxieties

Rola Tassabehji
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Global Land Grabs: Benefits, Emerging Dangers, and Growing Anxieties

african land grabWho’s grabbing land at the fastest rate? An Arab country is among the top 3. The target: Africa.

The issue of land grabbing by Gulf countries for food security purposes has been in the news (including Green Prophet) for some years now, but the trend for large-scale acquisitions is accelerating. The new scramble for land in Africa and many parts of South East Asia, such as Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam, is creating a wide spread geo-political phenomenon, raising new concerns about the long held debate on the benefits and risks of these acquisitions.

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Middle East Destination Tops Ethical Tourism Sales

Sarah Irving
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Middle East Destination Tops Ethical Tourism Sales

ResponsibleTravel.com customers on holiday in Egypt. Feluccas and Pharoahs, a popular trip.

British ethical tourism pioneers ResponsibleTravel.com has celebrated its tenth birthday by announcing its biggest ten sellers over the last decade – and Middle Eastern destinations top the list. Responsible Travel offers hundreds of holidays across the world and its birthday announcement also included the news that it has sold over £100 million in ethical tourism holidays via its website since 2001. But its most popular package of the last ten years has been the Egyptian family-oriented ‘feluccas and pharaohs’ ten-day tour, which includes train travel to Aswan, felucca boat travel on the Nile and snorkeling in the Red Sea. Also in the top ten is a beach guesthouse holiday in Turkey, near to a popular nesting site for Mediterranean turtles.

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Maritime Nuclear Energy May Still Be Worthwhile – To a Point

Maurice Picow
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Maritime Nuclear Energy May Still Be Worthwhile – To a Point

russian nuclear subRussian nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of Victory: Can spend many months at sea

With the nuclear power plant crisis in the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 and now the recent Japanese nuclear crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant many people are still wondering if there is any possible good use for nuclear energy , especially when it can create “dead zones” in areas surrounding the damaged reactors, as in case of both Chernobyl and Fukushima, affecting both people and animals as well. Maritime nuclear may circumvent some of the risks.

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Eco-Conscious Cosmetics: Looking Good Never So Beautiful for the Planet

Tinamarie Bernard
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Eco-Conscious Cosmetics: Looking Good Never So Beautiful for the Planet

alicia silverstoneEco-conscious beauty company presents a beautiful new look to inspire consumers to do more than put their best face forward.

Since EcoTools’ launch in 2008, the brand has grown tremendously with new beauty products and extensions every year. Hailed as a, “favorite of celebrities, beauty editors and women around the world” including the most famous Jewish vegan, Alicia Silverstone, this eco-conscious beauty brand has recently revamped its website to bring a more fresh and functional feel to its pages, and encourage browsers to “look luscious while living beautifully.”

This international brand from Paris is also available in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (and we are hoping they’ll branch out into other MENA countries too!), which means that Middle East consumers can join ranks with savvy cosmetic consumers who want to, “live their best as social and independent beings.”

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Emiratis Fear Dwindling Water Supplies Will Impact Future Generation

Arwa Aburawa
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Emiratis Fear Dwindling Water Supplies Will Impact Future Generation

A rising number of Emiratis are concerned about water scarcity and what it could mean for future generations

In the United Arab Emirate the average citizen consumes 550 litres of water per capita daily, which is three times the global average and quite high for a country located in the water-scarce Middle East. Despite this water luxury, many Emiratis are increasingly aware of the scale of the problem and in a recent survey carried out by Procter & Gamble and YouGov Siraj, worries over water shortages in the region are higher than they have ever been.

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Online And In Dubai Ekotribe Caters To The Green-Minded

Tafline Laylin
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Online And In Dubai Ekotribe Caters To The Green-Minded

green living dubai ecotribeWhere there’s a green will, there’s an eco-way, and Anu Agarwal will be leading the fray.

Nearly 40% of Ekotribe’s customers hail from the neighboring Emirate, Abu Dhabi, but the store’s recent expansion into the ground floor of Dubai’s Mercato mall reveals a slight shift in the glitzy city’s green leanings. There are only scattered venues to satisfy a thirst for eco-living in Dubai, apart from a few restaurants such as Baker & Spice, but Anu Agarwal’s success as owner of one of the Emirate’s first environmentally-friendly stores suggests that demand is growing. And she has what it takes to satiate.

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Bedouin Home-Spun Woolen Rugs On Show In Milan

Tafline Laylin
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Bedouin women from Israel are getting a name for themselves at the furniture fair in Milan, where their home-spun woolen rugs are on proud display as a prized example of high-end sustainable design. The Eindhoven designers BCXSY teamed up with SIDREH, the non-profit organization behind Lakiya Negev weaving to create these one-of-a-kind products.

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Egypt Stops Japan Imports Over Radiation Fears

Karin Kloosterman
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Egypt Stops Japan Imports Over Radiation Fears

japan radiation egypt port imageCar parts, scrap metal, fish and produce from Japan won’t enter Egyptian ports.

Traces of radiation, likely from Japan, have been clocked at Israel’s nuclear research station, and Bahrain is building a contingency plan should radiation levels spiral further out of control in Japan. Now, Egypt has declared that it will halt all import of goods from Japan to avoid any unwanted radioactivity. This ban includes food imports, fresh produce, scrap metal and car parts.

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Al Gore’s Fund Invests $10 Million in Tigo’s Maximizer Solar Tech

Karin Kloosterman
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tigo maximizer photo$10 million is the lucky number for two Israeli cleantech companies and Al Gore. Tigo’s Maximizer can add hundreds of hours worth of sun to your utility bill.

A fund that Al Gore’s chaired has already invested $10 million in an Israeli cleantech company – GreenRoad, a company that has a software solution to manage the gas consumption and driving safety of truck fleets. This week, the local business news in Israel is reporting that one of Gore’s funds is investing in another Israeli software-hardware solution, this time Tigo Energy for $10 million. Tigo’s solution helps maximize solar output of photovoltaic installations, promising up to 20 percent in energy efficiency improvements. The news comes hot on the heels of the Google investment in another Israeli solar product: BrightSource.

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Picket at the Egyptian Zoo For All Animal Rights

Karin Kloosterman
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Picket at the Egyptian Zoo For All Animal Rights

animal rights egypt photoAs Egyptian struggles for human rights, animal rights activists speak for those who can’t.

Egyptian animal welfare societies and activists are calling for a protest this Saturday outside the Cairo Zoo in Giza. According to animal rights activists Egypt has become a hub for international illegal trade in wildlife. We’ve reported earlier about the horses in Egypt (horses are the silent victims of Egypt’s revolution), and the dolphins being kept as “pets” in a Sinai swimming pool, and now the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals (ESMA) and other groups and individuals are organizing to give a voice to those who can’t speak.

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Ancient Egyptian Mummies Suffered From Clogged Arteries Too

Karin Kloosterman
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Ancient Egyptian Mummies Suffered From Clogged Arteries Too

mummie egypt clogged arteryFeeling bad about your junk food diet? New research on Egyptian mummies finds death by clogged arteries.

There was no Golden Arches or Krispy Kreme doughnuts for ancient Egyptian royalty. And they weren’t smokers, addicted to the Internet, or couch potatoes. But they do share similar health consequences with the people who do these things today: Their coronary arteries were clogged all the same. A new US-Egyptian research team studying CT scans of mummies — done on a sampling of the elite in ancient Egypt — found that almost half showed evidence of coronary atherosclerosis in one or more of the arteries supplying blood to the heart and brain. The research turns the tables on the understanding of underlying factors of heart disease and stroke.

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EcoMum’s Baby Almost Poisoned From Passover Cleaning Products

Sophie Ohana
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EcoMum’s Baby Almost Poisoned From Passover Cleaning Products

poison baby water bleachIt’s every parent’s nightmare: an advocate of simple, green cleaning products, Green Prophet’s Sophie reports how her child was almost poisoned by Passover cleaning products.

The Jewish Passover holiday is associated with springtime, freedom and joy. The pleasure of cleaning out the old for the new and a good spring clean. Well the joy of the Passover spring clean took a very nasty turn for me and my family yesterday, and it was an an even sadder one for another family.

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Do Palestinians Blame Israel For Their Environmental Woes?

Arwa Aburawa
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Do Palestinians Blame Israel For Their Environmental Woes?

According to a report by an organization which reviews school textbooks, Palestinian students are taught to blame Israel for their environmental problems but how accurate is the assessment?

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE), which reviews school textbooks in the Middle East North Africa region, recently released a damning report on way that Palestinian school books represent Israel. As well the negative portrayal of Israel, the report revealed that Palestinian textbooks blame Israel for their environmental problems. But does this mean that all Palestinians actually blame Israel for their environmental woes? And more importantly, what role (if any) does Israel really play in environmental degradation in Palestine?

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Serene Japanese-Styled Heiku Resort Lies At The Foot Of Mt. Gilboa

Tafline Laylin
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Serene Japanese-Styled Heiku Resort Lies At The Foot Of Mt. Gilboa

green building, israel, heiku resort, sustainable design, eco-design
This Japanese-style resort and spa attempts to add value to, rather than subdue, its natural surroundings.

My stepmother always says about life that there is no such thing as perfect, that there are only degrees of imperfection. So it is with green building. Foster & Partners are among the world’s most evolved architectural firms, but they are working with massive budgets that are only sustainable for a certain elite. On the other extreme, ecological kibbutzes and individual families are building rammed-earth homes in the spirit of Hassan Fathy, homes that have a wider application.

TEAM architects led by Zvika Taman fall somewhere in between. Their Heiku Resort & Spa, like the Red Sea film school, while using new materials nonetheless strives to add value to its natural surroundings. Built with Japanese principals in mind, we think it succeeds.

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