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Clever Human-Powered Transport Proposed for Low Carbon Masdar City

Minneapolis Rollerblade Inventor Wants Masdar Biking Monorail Skyways Why can’t getting around be as safe and comfortable as sitting in a car, and yet be...

Wind Giant Vestas Gives Half of its $1.5 Million Zayed Prize to Other Renewable Innovators

The Zayed Future Energy Prize is like the Nobel Prize for solutions to climate change. An extremely select jury of international experts in climate change...

Dubai’s New Net Zero Building Codes Should Boost Cleantech Worldwide

Dubai has hardly been noted for its energy-saving  green buildings. But new regulations are about to change that. Dubai’s Energy Council has just announced the...

Arab States Buy up Vast Tracts of African Farmland as Food Prices Skyrocket

Oil prices and food prices are interconnected. Wealthy Arab states try to create a food pipeline to stave off riots. As oil prices once again...

Egypt Requests Bids to Get 2.7 Gigawatts of Wind Power by 2016

Egypt is putting out a request for formal bids for wind farms to produce a staggering 2,690 Megawatts (2.7 GW) of electricity by 2016. At...

Turkey Joins 78 Others to Pass Feed-in Tariffs To Encourage Renewable Energy

Feed-in Tariffs can jump-start renewables faster than any other renewable energy policies. But is Turkey’s high enough to do the job? The Republic of Turkey...

Abu Dhabi Builds Huge Artificial Aquifer to Hide Desalinated Water from Terrorists

Abu Dhabi is almost entirely dependent on desalination for its vital water supply. If desalination plants were bombed, the city would have just four days...

Will the Saudis Be the Last to Get into the Gas Guzzler Biz?

A last hurrah for the age of oil as Saudis look to build the Gazl gas guzzler. History, if there is any, will not look...

World Bank to Fund Massive Grid Expansion To Link Desertec Region and the Arab World

A gigantic electricity network would link electric grids throughout the Middle East and extend them much further in a massive infrastructure investment in a smart...

Israel Offers a Too-Low Rate For Wind Feed-in Tariff

Israel fails the “Goldilocks test” for feed-in tariffs with a rate that is too low to hit the sweet spot for wind farm proliferation Israel’s...
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