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Researchers Get Potatoes Off The Couch And Powered Up

Cheap, and widely available in most countries of the world all year round, potatoes make an ideal source of power. Potatoes offer more than just...

Climbing God’s Mountain in Sinai

The ultimate “spiritual” and ecological experience – climbing the mountain where Moses was believed to have received the 10 commandments, in Sinai. In the heart...

Activists Generate Awareness of Critical Issues Ahead of UN Summit

Activists are pulling out all the stops ahead of a development summit at UN headquarters on 20-22 September. Pro-aid and anti-poverty lobbyists are trying everything...

Lebanon’s Five Biggest Environmental Headaches

Lebanon faces a number of environmental threats, including air and water pollution, risks associated with climate change, and the impact of the 2006 war with...

Tel-Aviv’s $60 Million Eco-Office Tower A Go

Tel Aviv’s first ‘green’ office tower uses recycled, sustainable and domestic building materials and ecological maintenance procedures for a long-term low impact on nature. Israel’s...

Why Israel Breathes Easy On Car-free Yom Kippur Day

Israel’s green campaigners note the quiet streets and clear skies on Yom Kippur Day Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, is the holiest day...

Worldwide Seed And Gene Banks Are “Libraries Of Life”

As populations surge and climate change destroys existing crops, seed and gene banks prepare us for potential food-shortage emergencies. As we learned when fires raging...

Australian Eucalyptus Trees Keep Israel’s Honey Buzzing Year-Round

With nectar now readily available year-round, Israeli bees are increasing their honey production. Israel may be a desert, going six months of the year without...

Intel Israel Is LEED’s Golden Child

Think of Israel and high tech, and the first word that pops into most minds is…Intel. Since setting up shop in the country in 1974,...

Waterless by 2017? Yemen Capital Fails To Harvest Its Summer Rain

Yemen’s capital city is expected to be the world’s first waterless one by 2017. A skyrocketing population, lack of government planning, and the bad-habit of...
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