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Tafline Laylin
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6 Slow Food Revolutionaries in Lebanon
With so many reports of tainted, rotten food hitting the market, Lebanese consumers are desperate to source organic, pesticide-free food from responsible suppliers. And their...
Dazzling Carpet of Plastic Bottles Adorns the Moroccan Desert
Nobody wants to see rubbish littering the magical Sahara desert, unless of course it belongs to WE MAKE CARPETS. The Dutch collective has been arranging...
Native Green Roof Tops Israel’s Proposed Fallen Sons Memorial
Israeli architects Moshe Fluhr, Lee Davidson Lehrer and Yinnon Lehrer submitted this design for a contemporary memorial home for Ramat Yishay – a community situated...
Fruitful Fusion “Trochets” Bean Bags from Trash
Concerned to reconnect hands and minds and make a worthwhile environmental impact, a few women from Saudi Arabia are crocheting recycled plastic bags into colorful...
GlassPoint Uses Solar Mirrors to Loosen Dirty Oil in Oman
California-based GlassPoint Solar has installed an unconventional concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Oman. Comprised of rows of six meter tall steel mirrors encased in...
Dar Beida: Eco-Luxe 18th Century Sandstone Villa in Morocco
With Christmas just around the corner, hordes of European and English visitors will skip across the Mediterranean for a fast, cheap holiday in beautiful Morocco....
Jordan’s Feed-in-Tariff for Renewable Energy is an Arab World First
Jordan is the first country in the Arab world to offer its residents an opportunity to earn money through feed-in-tariffs (FITs). The Electricity Regulatory Commission...
Mixing Beer and Wine With Recycling in Lebanon
Lebanese don’t usually need an excuse to party but they might need an incentive to recycle. Albeit one of the only countries at the COP18...
Failed COP18 Climate Talks Boil Down to Money (Op-Ed)
Although just about everybody at the COP18 climate talks in Doha, Qatar, understood the importance of arresting climate change following a slew of recent reports...
Snake Bites Man on Plane, Forces Emergency Landing
A poisonous snake bit a man on a flight from Cairo to Kuwait, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. A Jordanian passenger who...
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