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Maurice Picow
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Israel's Ben Gurion Airport To Get Green Facelift
Not only are Middle Eastern airlines such as Qatar Airlines and airports getting involved in “greening up their act.” Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, one of...
Going On A Picnic to Tel Aviv’s Garbage Mountain
(Posing for a photo in front of Tel Aviv’s old garbage dump, Hiriya, the rectum of Tel Aviv.) That backdrop of the photo where Green...
Were Israelites the First True Environmentalists?
(Modern-day Israelites “glean” at a Tel Aviv market to help feed African refugees in Israel.) Chapter 25 of the biblical Book of Leviticus relates how...
Green Office Building Takes Off In "Energy City Qatar"
Green building is becoming a fad in Arab countries. We’ve all probably heard of the world’s first carbon neutral city Masdar being built in Abu...
As Better Place Tests Battery Replacement Technology in Japan, Is Better Place the Best Electric Car Company?
Shai Agassi’s Better Place electric car company seemed to be on the right track with their conception of a totally electric family sized car. The...
Saudi Arabia Opens World's Largest Desalination Plant
Saudi Arabia has always had an acute fresh water shortage problem. The problem has been so severe that a proposal was once considered to literally...
As Turkey's Liquid Assets Run Dry, Something's Afoul With Its Plan To Sell Water
Global warming and climate change, which we know is threatening the majestic cedars of Lebanon, is now having a serious effect on water resources in...
Israeli Sperm Count Drops A Whopping Forty Percent
(Israeli hightech entrepeneur Yossi Vardi delivers a TED Talk about the dangers of blogging for men. An inconvenient truth called Local Warming.) It could be...
Oprah, What Are You Thinking With Your Free KFC Chicken Giveaway?
Ever since American talk show host Oprah Winfrey announced that her website www.oprah.com would be giving away coupons for free chicken dinners, KFC or Kentucky...
After Five Years Without, Syria's President Appoints Woman As New Environment Minister
Syria, a country whose authoritarian government has often been rife with corruption and human rights violations, has again reshuffled its cabinet as President Bashar al...
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