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Beirut Residents Revolt Against Plan to Destroy Iconic Massad Stairs
Beirut residents are fed up: everywhere they look there are cranes and bulldozers turning their city into a giant concrete mess and even the smallest...
Solar-Powered ‘Desert Cascades’ Cube Gushes Water in the Desert
The same team behind SunGlacier, an extraordinary solar-powered artificial leaf that produces ice in the middle of the desert, has come up with a new...
Wearable Boutonnière Vase Keeps Floral Scents Close to Your Chest
Israeli designer Omer Polak has designed an adorable wearable vase that keeps a flower or herbs close to the wearer’s chest. The Boutonnière is a lapel...
Naive Israeli Startup Tricks Beirut Designers into Doing Illegal Business
Creativity, like nature, knows no borders, and we’re all about putting politics aside for the greater good, but a pair of naive American women behind...
Israeli Firm to Mine Dutch Sewers for the New Gold
Israel’s Applied CleanTech has found a way to turn sewers into gold mines, and now the company has signed an agreement with a Dutch wastewater treatment...
The Tragic Story Behind Haunting Plane-Shaped Memorial in the Sahara Desert
In 1989, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 carrying 155 passengers and 15 crew members exploded over the Sahara Desert. 18 years later, family members built a memorial shaped...
World’s First ‘Green’ Ice Cream Factory – in Turkey
Turkey is better known for these five unsustainable development projects and a new undersea rail tunnel near a major fault zone than green building. But...
Dubai is Growing Food in Salt Marshes
Scientists in Dubai are growing a new kind of food crop in salt marshes along the Persian Gulf coast. A variety of salt-resistant succulent, Salicornia are...
Find secret green spots in Beirut
A group of activists in Beirut have teamed up with a local design agency to create the city’s first map of green spaces. Beirut Green...
Turkey Opens World’s Deepest Subsea Tunnel, the Marmaray, Connecting Asia to Europe
Turkey inaugurated the Marmaray undersea railway tunnel on Tuesday, linking Europe and Asia. It is the Marmaray, the world’s deepest immersed tube tunnel at 60.46...
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