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Human Fertilization Starts at the Bottom

A banal for-profit product for the Third World may revolutionize the treatment of human waste In the Middle East and other regions with increasing water...

Replacing Depleting Oil Will Shortly Outpace Fresh Demand

Peak oil poses biggest threat to peak oil, Wikileaks cable shows You think a population approaching seven billion puts pressure on oil supplies? Soon, just...

Dubai Utility Doubles Business Electricity Rates in Three Years

You wouldn’t want to be responsible for keeping the lights on in buildings like these! In an attempt to reign in Dubai’s profligate fossil energy...

Egypt’s Conflagration is an Advance Warning for an Unsustainable World

Climate change, peak oil and too many mouths to feed topples the first of the world’s now fragile economies. Egypt is just the first nation...

72% Efficient ZenithSolar Gets Demo Down Under

The Israeli firm ZenithSolar, which combines highly efficient solar electricity along with solar heating, is doing a demonstration in Australia. ZenithSolar’s first 16-unit project has...

Uganda’s Smart New Feed-in Tariff Could Ease MENA Energy Issues

Under new sophisticated new renewable energy policy in Uganda and a recent World Bank grid expansion connecting to Africa, soon it could be Uganda keeping...

Israel follows Norway’s Lead With a High Tax on its Massive Off-Shore Oil Find

Egalitarian Norway has been the exception to the resource-curse, because of its high taxes on oil wealth. Could Israel take the same approach? A new...

First AeroFarms Unit Installed This Week in Jeddah

Jeddah, the “ancestor of women”,  hosts breakthrough food production technology AeroFarms, a company whose vertical skyscraper farming idea we have covered before, is now beginning...

BrightSource Joins Last Minute Renewables Rush in Greece to Head Off EU Fines

Greece has been no Sweden, Germany, Finland, Denmark or Portugal, when it comes to the new cleantech economy. That is changing fast. Look who’s applying...

Abu Dhabi to Compost its Oil Industry Wastes

Abu Dhabi is to green up desert oil fields using composting of waste products, including those from the oil industry itself. The French start-up company...
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