Get your green drinks on in Abu Dhabi tonight with the Eco-Chicks and other eco folks. If you happen to be passing through the One to One Hotel in Abu Dhabi tomorrow night around 6:30pm, you may stumble across an Abu Dhabi Eco-Chick organized Green Drinks event. Green Drinks is a loosely organized (yet widely […]
Israel’s plan to use renewable energy to power highway lighting, Italy’s plan to use Israeli technology for highway signs, the OECD and more headlines related to Israeli cleantech this past week. Image via david55king. During the week of May 23, 2010, Israel announced that it will be converting the energy sources for its infrastructure, specifically […]
Can Zionism claim Green credentials? The jury is still out on this one. On the one hand, Zionism was initially very much a “back to the land” movement, in the European Romantic tradition. Trees were being planted in Palestine as early as 1901, there was a strong emphasis on agriculture and “redemption of the land”, […]
Get Your Green On in The Dmit Valley Ecovillages are slowly sprouting in the Middle East. There’s Kramim in Israel’s Negev Desert, as well as the well-known Kibbutz Lotan, and now the first of its kind in Lebanon. Called simply EcoVillage, this project was grown from the ground by Karim al Khatib and a group […]
Dutch native Theo van de Laar exposes the eco secrets and paradise he entertains through The Aqaba House, an eco-friendly guest house he runs in Jordan. A while back Tafline featured the eco-cool guest house The Aqaba House, near the Read Sea port of Aqaba, Jordan. Today we feature a short interview with Theo, the […]
Dr. Gotlieb comments on the disastrous effects of the oil spill in the US Gulf of Mexico and the dangers it portends for Israel’s emerging oil industry. In a New York Times article entitled Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill published this week, Elisabeth Rosenthal writes that “Americans have long had an unswerving belief […]
Yinnon Lehrer’s urban long-term bike parking solution encourages more commuters to keep on pedaling. If you’ve ever thought about commuting to work everyday on your bike and still haven’t done it yet, chances are there are a couple of reasons why you thought better of it. A) You didn’t want your bike to get stolen […]
Green Zionism may be a way to integrate the old movement into new global village. With the 36th World Zionism Congress about to get under way, a somewhat new movement known as the Green Zionist Alliance (GZA) – whose exec director we interviewed – is hoping to inject environmental or ‘green’ concepts into the world […]
Canada, unlike the United States, is made up of provinces. One of its richest, and home to Toronto is Ontario – a province whose leader wants it to “go green” (see fist pumping, left). It is also where I was born and raised. Now, Ontario’s Premiere (leader) Daltan McGuinty is currently on a trade mission to […]
This desalination plant in Al-Hidd will be joined by additional facilities as Bahrain seeks to boost its water production. (Image via sidem-desalination.com) Aiming to meet its growing water needs, Bahrain is pursuing an ambitious plan to increase its production of desalinated water. The kingdom currently produces 142 million gallons of water a day. The first […]
Miriam interviews store owners who sell legally addictive substances: soft drinks, cigarettes, junk snacks – and Gat. Some folks chew gum. A lot of Israelis chew seeds: sunflower, pumpkin, watermelon seeds. Some people put a plug of tobacco into their cheek and chew away, only pausing to spit once in a while. But for maximum chewing […]
A solar hot water heater is a cheap way to collect endless hot water, from the sun. What are you waiting for? Image via Beluga. They are relatively cheap units to install and can provide almost endless supplies of free hot water. Like Israel discovered decades ago, people in Cairo are now onto using energy […]
Gulf oil spill in early May. It’s much worse now but a solution used in Kuwait might be the key for containing the contaminated. As the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to saturate the Gulf of Mexico with millions of barrels of crude oil and natural gas, company engineers have begun to turn to even more […]
Dosier’s fearlessness of the science of construction sets her apart from her peers [image courtesy of flickr] We were so intrigued by Professor Ginger Dosier, the Architect at Sharjah University who grows bricks by combining sand, common bacteria, calcium chloride and urea, that we decided to dig deeper. Some architects, like those at Geotectura, develop mindbending […]
The largest Muslim-led festival in the US, Takin’ It to the Streets, will feature arts, music, activities, and how to be green. The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is currently putting together a free festival in Chicago that will take place on June 19th. Expected to be the largest Muslim-led festival in the US, Takin’ […]