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“Mayslits Kassif Architecture” Takes Coveted European Landscape Architecture Award for Tel Aviv Port

Tafline Laylin
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“Mayslits Kassif Architecture” Takes Coveted European Landscape Architecture Award for Tel Aviv Port

tel aviv port Mayslits Kassif ArchitectureFor the first time in history, Israeli architects who designed Tel Aviv’s Port took best design at the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture Awards.

The port of Tel Aviv had been an abandoned concrete pile for years before Mayslits Kassif Architecture turned it into one of the most hopping spots in Israel’s seaside city. Every day of the week, the port astride the Mediterranean is packed with cyclists,  sun goddesses, tourists, and locals, and on the weekend the farmer’s market rivals any of the best in the west. In addition to generating income with a series of shops and restaurants, the new look has given Israelis a sense of pride, as well as an urban escape. For this the architects received the European Biennial Landscape Architecture Award for Best Design.

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Oregon’s Governor Looks for Clean Tech Opportunities in Israel

Karin Kloosterman
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Oregon’s Governor Looks for Clean Tech Opportunities in Israel

Oregon’s Governor Ted Kulongoski (left) will be “fishing” for clean tech and high-tech opportunities in Israel later this month.

Oregon’s Governor Ted Kulongoski, a Democrat, will be coming to Israel for an 8-day trade mission later this month. Like other American politicians, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger included, Kulongoski is looking to meet with Israeli clean tech companies, high-tech cos, and venture capitalists to partner with. Israel has built its name in telecom, high-tech and, more recently, technology refugees from these arenas have moved over to clean tech offering creative ideas to problems such as water and renewable energy.

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Nile Water Kills 17,000 Egyptian Children Each Year

Tafline Laylin
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Nile Water Kills 17,000 Egyptian Children Each Year

boats-on-the-nileCertain Egyptian Ministries are finally noticing that the Nile River is not healthy. For 17,000 children a year, they are a bit late.

One of the most popular tourist activities in Egypt is to travel along the Nile River, and there is no shortage of options for doing so. Hundreds of eager men are ready to take hapless foreigners for a sunset sail on a falucca or fishing, while approximately 300 floating hotels offer extended trips from Luxor to Aswan. Unbeknownst to tourists, however, their Nile memories leave behind a terrible stench.

With elections next month expected to yield no new resistance to environmental apathy, the sudden interest from the Ministries of Environment, Tourism and Transport in the State of The Nile could be a case of too little too late, unless, of course, they can hit the government where it hurts most: below the money belt.  

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Zalabya, the Middle Eastern bread with black cumin seeds

Miriam Kresh
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black cumin seeds pita paneerOnce you’ve tasted bread baked with spicy black cumin seeds, you’ll reach for more…and more.

Black cumin is often added to breads and crackers in the Middle East, as we noted in our post about black cumin seed. We suggest scattering some of those spicy black seeds over the dough in our recipe for za’atar topped pita, but here is another Middle Eastern favorite bread that has black cumin in the dough.

Zalabya bread recipe

Ingredients:

  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 cup warm water
  • 1 cup sesame seeds
  • 1/4 cup black cumin seeds
  • 1 cup olive oil for the dough
  • 1 tablespoon granulated yeast
  • 1/4 cup warm water for the yeast
  • Salt to taste
  • Olive oil for frying

Method:

  1. Dissolve the yeast in the water
  2. Combine flour, sesame and black cumin seeds, olive oil, salt and water in a bowl. Mix well. Add more water by tablespoons if needed to make a pliable dough.
  3. Add the dissolved yeast to the batter. Mix well . Cover the bowl and let the dough rise for  30 minutes, or until double its original size.
  4. Take pieces about the size of a large egg out of the dough.
  5. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan and heat it over a medium flame. Fry the dough, pushing it into a circle with the spatula. When the zalabya is golden-brown on the underside, turn it over and fry till all is the same golden-brown color.
  6. Add more olive oil as needed. Serve the zalabya hot.

Enjoy!

More Middle-Eastern Recipes from Green Prophet:

Photo of pita sandwich by norwichnuts via Flickr.

 

Want To Mobilize The Green Mob? Lebanese Bloggers Show Us How!

Tafline Laylin
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Want To Mobilize The Green Mob? Lebanese Bloggers Show Us How!

glass-cubeLebanese Bloggers elbow their way through wishy washy red tape to spread urgent environmental and political messages.

Environmental bloggers go to great lengths to confront the dual challenge of making people aware of serious environmental concerns, and inspiring them to do something about it. We absolutely have to cut carbon emissions, a message that Bill McKibben and the crew at 350.org have driven across the planet, so that global weather patterns don’t spiral out of control. And in order to do that, we have to reduce our dependence on oil and gas.

For some, that may mean installing a few solar panels and an organic garden on their roof. For those who don’t own a home but drive a car, reverting to bicycles or public transportation would make a difference. Not only do these small actions add up, but almost all of the “green” initiatives we have introduced can lead to a deeper and happier life. Earnest bloggers desperate to unlock the shackles of traditional media elbow their way through greenwashers and meek government  in order to spread this urgent message. In Lebanon, their work is beginning to pay off.

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On 10.10.2010, Did Middle Eastern Women Jump on the Pink Viagra Bandwagon?

Maurice Picow
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On 10.10.2010, Did Middle Eastern Women Jump on the Pink Viagra Bandwagon?

Will pink viagra gain a following among in this part of the world and change woman’s dress codes?

Yesterday was the secular date of 10.10.2010, and many women are using the once in lifetime calendar event as an expression of love and personal sexuality. Taking this in mind, is there really such thing as a “Pink Viagra”; and will women, especially Middle Eastern women, be partial to using a preparation that is alleged to restore their sexual libidos and enable them to once again enjoy having sex?  Though not intended to single out women living in this part of the world, an article in the Washington Post says that America’s Food and Drug Administration, the country’s food and pharmaceutical watchdog, is considering giving its approval to a drug called “flibanserin” which is mooted as being able to fiddle with a woman’s sexual brain waves and increase or in some cases restore her sexual libido or desire to “roll in the hay” with either her spouse or lover.

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Green Abu Dhabi Art Show Aims to Paint the Town Green

Karen Chernick
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Green Abu Dhabi Art Show Aims to Paint the Town Green

abu dhabi green art showThe Green Abu Dhabi Art Show will soon be using one of the world’s universal languages – art – to spread the message of environmentalism.

The color green will have a different artistic meaning at the Green Abu Dhabi Art Show starting this Wednesday (October 13th).  Instead of referring  to the artists’ color palettes, it will apply to their environmental intentions.  The three week exhibition will focus on educating the community about the environment and sustainability, and summon the whole UAE to “paint the town green”.

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Community of Angels Meets to Defeat Pulmonary Hypertension

Dr. Yosef Gotlieb
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Community of Angels Meets to Defeat Pulmonary Hypertension

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Israeli and Turkish delegations joined European and American counterparts in Spain to draw attention to environmental factors causing a killer disease.

Strengthening community will be an integral part of a sustainable future.  A “community of angels” in my notes referred to the delegates from more than 20 countries in the European Union, Israel, Turkey and the United States who convened in Castelldefels to discuss Pulmonary Hypertension. The European Pulmonary Hypertension Association conference took place just outside of Barcelona from Sept. 18-20th.

Dr. Iris Tal and I represented the Israel Pulmonary Hypertension Association at the gathering. There, patients, caregivers and clinicians discussed treatment options, drug accessibility, standards of care, research horizons and general support for the victims of the illness.

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Rawabi: Palestine’s Greenest City, or Greenest Wash?

Tafline Laylin
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Rawabi: Palestine’s Greenest City, or Greenest Wash?

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Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry threatens to enforce their will in Palestinian territory, where the plans for Rawabi are not as green as Palestinian/Qatari developers profess.

Israel’s excess extraction from the Jordan River (as well as other factors) could soon kill it altogether with serious ramifications for Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians. There is no question that one nation’s poor environmental decisions can impact on another. As such, every community owes it to the rest of the world as well as their own citizens to maintain the existing and create built environments modestly and sustainably.

Thus the planned city Rawabi in Palestine raises concerns. Although we applaud the Palestinian Authority’s goal to create short and long term jobs and improve the quality of life for Palestinians living between Ramallah and Nablus, there is something fishy about the big Palestinian/Qatari rush to erect Rawabi without first addressing basic concerns.

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First Images Of Coral Reef Off Tel Aviv’s Shore

Tafline Laylin
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First Images Of Coral Reef Off Tel Aviv’s Shore

shipwreck-mediterraneanAlong with a coral reef that scientists did not know existed, this shipwreck is one of two discovered by Nautilus robots in September.

When the Nautilus of Titanic fame left Haifa in early September, the researchers on board aimed to scour deeper beneath the Mediterranean Sea’s surface than had previously been possible. Within two and a half weeks, the ship’s advanced robots were exploring at unprecedented depths of 1.7km. At 7oo m, the scientists from Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences led by Zvi Ben Avraham were astounded to discover a coral reef that extends a few kilometers approximately 40km off Tel Aviv’s shore.

They announced this discovery after returning from their expedition towards the end of September, as did we, but they have since released images of a world never before seen. Not only do they hope that this precious reef will give government greater impetus to protect the Mediterranean in the form of marine reserves and other anthropogenic limits, but they also hope to learn more about the mechanism of coral survival both historically and within the context of current climate changes.

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Build Next Year’s Sukkah With Hybrid Bamboo (aka Solar Schach)

Karen Chernick
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Build Next Year’s Sukkah With Hybrid Bamboo (aka Solar Schach)

Is taking down this year’s sukkah already getting you thinking about next year’s?

Have the end of the Jewish holidays, return to work, and impending cold weather got you down?  Fantasizing about next year’s warm evenings spent inside an outdoor sukkah (or temporary booth) might help fight that feeling.  This year’s much-publicized Sukkah City design competition in New York’s Union Square might have inspired you to go above and beyond the call of sukkah duty next year and bring some serious design quality to your booth.

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Planned Flooding of Ancient Roman Spa in Turkey Shows Disregard for Archeological Sites

Maurice Picow
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Planned Flooding of Ancient Roman Spa in Turkey Shows Disregard for Archeological Sites

Allianoi Roman baths in better days. Is flooding this site for irrigation  a “massacre” or unavoidable water reservoir project?

In a planned act that seems to be no different than bulldozing ancient archeological sites in Libya the Turkish government is going through with work to flood the  ancient Roman hot springs spa of Allianoi. The site sits in a valley that will be flooded by a dam  that will create a reservoir with a capacity to irrigate 8,000 hectares of farmland. The project, reported in Lebanon’s Daily Star includes wall painting frescoes and columns as well as beautiful mosaic floors.  Even though efforts are being made to protect the site by covering it with a special coating and layers of sand (as Tafline reported), no effort was made on behalf of the Turkish authorities to let archeologists do a complete excavation of the site, which will soon be covered by at least 17 meters of water when the Yorganli Dam is completed.

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Bottlenose Dolphins In Egyptian Pool Imported From “The Cove”

Tafline Laylin
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Bottlenose Dolphins In Egyptian Pool Imported From “The Cove”

the-cove-dolphins-egyptTaiji, Japan is the scene of the bloody dolphin slaughter revealed by “The Cove.” It is also the source of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s dolphin imports.

In 2008, Taiji in Japan slaughtered 1,700 dolphins. The international community swarmed to action after one of the most powerful works of journalism, “The Cove,” depicted the bloodletting in a documentary that won an academy award in 2009. This year, while 57 bottlenose dolphins have escaped Taiji’s slaughter, they have been doomed to yet another cruel and unnatural fate.

We recently showed footage of four bottlenose dolphins trapped in an Egyptian swimming pool 1/10th the recommended size, where they were serving quarantine time before being transferred to a new dolphinarium in Hurghada. It has since emerged that not only were these dolphins imported from the scene of “The Cove,” but Saudi Arabia received four as well.

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Students Redefine Urban Spaces In Three Days and Three Nights

Tafline Laylin
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Students Redefine Urban Spaces In Three Days and Three Nights

bat-yam-urban-action1With too much brilliance to choose from, judges of last week’s 72 Hour Urban Action Competition in Israel awarded two first prizes.

It is less cumbersome than we’d like to believe to give densely packed urban centers a sustainable facelift.

This was demonstrated last week during the 72 Hour Urban Action Initiative that tasked 120 architectural students from 19 countries with the formidable task of livening up Israel’s “crummy” city Bat Yam.

In just three days and three nights, ten teams worked tirelessly to infuse otherwise abandoned or monotonous buildings with colorful, uplifting oomph.

Their combined efforts were so impressive that the judges were hard-pressed to award only one first prize, so they awarded two instead, as well as an honorable mention.

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Eran Hilerowicz, CEO of Koala Recycling Solutions, Speaks About Metal Recycling in Israel

Karen Chernick
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Eran Hilerowicz, CEO of Koala Recycling Solutions, Speaks About Metal Recycling in Israel

Eran talks about popularizing metal recycling in Israel and other Koala Recycling Solutions projects.

After excitedly learning a few weeks ago that a new organization, Koala Recycling Solutions, was tackling the metal recycling issue in Israel, we decided to get in touch with its CEO, Eran Hilerowicz, to learn more.  Here’s what he had to say about his inspiration for founding the company, why it was needed, what Koala does, and more.

How was Koala founded, and what was the inspiration?

I was first “infected” by the ecological “bug” while I was traveling in Australia and New Zealand. I got accustomed to recycling everything and everywhere. When I returned to Israel after 9 months I automatically started recycling everything possible. I quickly realized there is no way to recycle household metals. During my electrical engineering studies in Tel Aviv University and while working in an Israeli Hi-Tech company as a verification engineer, I took a non-for credit environmental leadership course given by the Student Union. This course gave me the push to leave the Hi-Tech industry and do what I truly enjoy. One year later, Koala Recycling Solutions Ltd was founded.

Koala Recycling Solutions was named after the tree hugging bear.

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