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Maurice Picow
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Win The $1.5 Million Zayed Future Energy Prize
Once again, in the UAE Gulf state of Abu Dhabi, the Zayed Future Energy Prize contest is open for entries on new and innovative projects...
A Jarring Reminder Why Bottled Water Conflicts With Green Values
This article is not first one on Green Prophet dealing with water and other beverages sold in polyethylene and polystyrene bottles; and it probably won’t...
Afghan Opium Growers Get Burned Out
Afghan farmers get “burned out” as government tows to US pressure. But for poppy farmers, it’s poppies or starvation. Wheat crops, or biofuel crops cannot...
ZenithSolar – The Most Efficient Solar Energy Collector In The World?
(ZenithSolar’s Jetson-style sunshine-collecting DPV – concentrating photovoltaic – dishes in the Negev Desert) As the old saying goes: necessity is the mother of invention. And nothing...
Walk for Love, Peace, and the Environment
(Aboriginal men in Australia mark manhood by going on a long distance trek. Israelis too, are on a “walkabout,” but for love and the environment.)...
Go On "Hajj" To Mecca and Medina On Saudi's New High Speed Train
Millions of Muslims go on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina every year. A new high speed train planned by Saudi Arabia is...
Swine Flu and The Future of Israeli Pigs – Domestic and "Wild"
(Israel raises non-Kosher pigs? Yup. And it has a pretty healthy wild population of wild boars, as well). They are calling to cull all the...
Independence or Interdependence? Both Are Vital for Survival
Tonight begins Israel’s Independence Day, and a lot of recent articles on Green Prophet have been about the regional water crisis, and what must be...
Will The Middle East Heed Al Gore's Latest Cry?
(Melting like crazy: compare image of arctic ice cap from 1979 to that from 2003. Something seem off to you?) Last year he was in...
Ever Get That Sinking Feeling? Dead Sea Sinkhole Swallows Student
Following the latest incident in which a Tel Aviv University student, Idan Shadmi, was seriously when falling into a Dead Sea sinkhole, a Tel Aviv...
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