Owls Unite Arab Farmers in Palestine, Israel and Jordan
Barn owls as biological control. Arab farmers in the Levant use nesting boxes to encourage the owls to move in. This means much less pesticide to control rodents.
Aloe Vera – A Prickly Plant with Pizzazz
Some Aloe Vera gelato I saw in Milan…but I wasn’t brave enough to taste it! You’ve heard of aloe vera gel, aloe vera cream, but have you ever head of aloe vera ice cream? Well maybe the Italians have got it right with this uniquely flavoured gelato, since the health benefits and general uses of […]
Don't Cry Over Spilt Oil? Egypt Gov Says Red Sea Spill is from Old Oil
The plot thickens: The Egypt Government says Red Sea oil spill is not a rig spill. The warmer weather has just released old oil, now surfacing. Or it’s come from passing tanker. Image via wikipedia BP’s oil spill is a disaster with no end in sight. It only illuminates the alleged Red Sea oil spill, […]
Engineers Without Borders (Middle East) Build Biowaste Reactors in Nepal
Engineering students from Israel’s Technion have developed an anaerobic digester to help solve fuel and pollution problems in Nepal. Inspired by a lecture from Bernard Amadei, a US engineer from Colombia University who founded Engineers Without Borders, a group of 30 Israeli engineering students decided to open a chapter and a goodwill project of their […]
Arava Power Company Signs Solar Deals with Negev Bedouins
A kibbutz company in Israel leases 100 acres of land off of Bedouins in the Negev Desert to plant new solar panel project. Image via dlisbona Israel’s Bedouin population may not be the most impoverished among the Bedouin clans in the Middle East, but they are very much marginalized people in need of some good […]
Prince Charles on Islam and the Environment
Prince Charles delivers a speech targeted to Muslim population and how it mobilize to quell environmental problems, such as over-population in the developing world. Image via the Telegraph Known as an ardent environmentalist – he’s even got his own line of organic food Duchy Originals – the United Kingdom’s Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, […]
Green Prophet at Interfaith Gathering in Amman – and a Green Oasis
A green oasis in Amman – the King Hussein Park, Jordan. Greetings from Amman, where I’m representing the Green Prophet at the URI MENA 8th annual conference. What’s URI MENA? It’s the Middle East – North Africa (MENA) region of the global United Religions Initiative (URI), dedicated to promoting interfaith cooperation. About 50 representatives of […]
Can a Male Birth Control Pill Save the Environment?
A birth control for men is in the works. It complies with strict religious traditions in Judaism, and it could control population growth in the Middle East and developing nations. Most western environmentalists would agree that population control is one of the most important measures humanity can take to stop the over-consumption of Earth’s limited […]
Yarkon River – A Waterway in Revision with a Tragic Past
Once you could lose your life if you fell in. Rowing in cleaner waters? The Yarkon River has been upgraded – so they say! This installment of articles on Israel’s coastal waterways, deals with the Yarkon River, one of the country’s shortest, as well as one of the most publicized. It begins at Tel Afek, […]
OnePure, a First in "Halal" Eco Skincare Products
Created by Layla Mandi, OnePure's eco skincare line contains only halal ingredients that promotes cleaner beauty products for the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Killing In The Name Of… Water (In Iraq)
All the forecasts about water causing the next major Middle East conflict has started. An Iraqi government employee in the irrigation department, along with his family, are murdered – over water. In the early hours of 18 June, gunmen broke into Faisal Hassan’s west Baghdad home killing him, his wife and their two young children. […]
Kids in Cairo Survive on Crusts and Crumbs
It’s hard to think green, when you’re thinking about your next dinner. A UN story documents the lack of protein in Egyptian children, and that a whopping 16% of all kids living there are malnourished. For seven-year-old Ahmed Yasser, it is normal to have just a crust of bread to munch on throughout the afternoon […]
Egypt Eco-Group HEPCA Reports Red Sea Spill is Capped, Beaches Cleaned
Green Prophet is in touch with HEPCA, the eco group in Egypt, working on cleaning up and containing the oil spill in the Red Sea that started last week. We hope to bring you more updates by the end of the day. Meanwhile, the eco group in the region of the spill – the Hurghada […]
Jordan Activists Worried About Red Sea Oil Spill
Like the BP oil spill disaster that’s gripping the world, the delicate eco-system of the Red Sea, home to some of the most important coral reefs of the world, may be in peril. Off the coast of Egypt late last week in the Red Sea, an oil spill was reported – one which the government […]
Bahrain Fishermen Plea for Help With Their Catch
A Bahraini dhow in drydock. No fish. Maybe it’s time to go back to racing camels? It’s not just dumping construction wastes in the Persian Gulf that’s killing delicate coral formations these days. Now, the Sheikdom’s fishermen are complaining that their catches are much lower than expected. Bahrain’s Gulf Daily News says the fishing industry has collapsed. And […]