Are the “Sons of the desert” doing their utmost to curtail climate change? One out of every 4 human beings on this planet is a Muslim. As such, are members of this planet’s largest religious group doing enough to combat the growing problems of global warming and climate change? Much of the world’s known petroleum reserves […]
Dan Bloom, an advocate of polar cities (a prototype for a building above), paints a bleak future for the Middle East. Action against climate change is needed now. Two recent international news stories about climate change (“How much more proof is needed for people to act?” and “Ignoring the future — the psychology of denial,) […]
Last night, Israel’s NGO delegation to the Copenhagen climate talks kicked off a week of activism with a very special Channukah candle-lighting. Delegates gathered in City Hall Square of the city to publicly light the Channukah menorah, but with a climate-flavored twist. Instead of singing the traditional words to age-old Channukah songs, the activists changed […]
By Danny Lev, Analyst in IDC Research IL (www.idc.com) An old Israeli joke describes how God led Moses through the desert to the Holy Land for 40 years, through hardships and dangers, only to lead the Israelite nation to the only spot in the Middle East where there isn’t a drop of oil. Two thousand […]
If you read any story this week make it this one: What could be the most important event of the next decade, world leaders and activists are meeting as we speak in Copenhagen, Denmark to lay the foundations of a plan to stop climate change. On the forefront of representing the Arab world, and criticizing the […]
Irrespective of the outcome of the current COP 15 climate change conference still in progress in Copenhagen, “Startup Nation” Israel is already making plans to become a world leader in clean technology ventures, especially in the areas of water, energy and environmental technologies. Some of these projects will be topics for panel discussions that will be taking […]
Haifa Bay is lovely, but it’s extremely polluted. Chemical giant there now producing carbon credits with Citi bank. What would induce a significantly environmentally polluting company like Israel’s Haifa Chemicals to make an agreement with an international banking institution like Citi to meet targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Haifa Chemicals has long been a […]
Lebanon’s Prime Minister is going, but Israel’s won’t. Locals sign petition to get its PM to Copenhagen. Sick of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s excuses for not attending the international Cophenhagen summit on climate change, Greenpeace has been circulating a petition in order to urge him to attend. Apparently, many Israelis agreed with Greenpeace. Within […]
[youtube width=”560″ height=”475″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBejL7dgv0&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] As the world seeks a deal on global warming in Copenhagen, the Middle East and North Africa remain one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. The region is one of the worlds’ most water-scarce and driest, with a high dependency on climate-sensitive agriculture and a large share […]
Today opens the two-week round of climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark. From this corner of the world the conference is a meeting of giants – literally, the giant polluters like the U.S. and China, which make it seem like there is little the small countries of the Middle East can do to stop global […]
Hajj is either starting or it’s already over, and millions of participants have returned to their countries of origin or are starting to prepare to travel to Saudi Arabia. But even before the pilgrimage began, representatives of major world religions met in London to try to use the power of faith to help reverse the […]
Oil rich Saudi is not the only country getting slack for greenhouse gas emissions. This Canadian writer points the finger at Canada, where tar sands are yet to be an issue at climate change talks. Climate activist groups have been attacking Saudi Arabia, saying the Middle East country is playing an obstructionist role at climate […]
[youtube width=”560″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUEHgCSE9I0[/youtube] In a pretty radical move, Lebanon’s IndyACT organizes protest against what it calls Saudi obstructionism in climate change talks. Watch this vertigo-inducing video of their silent protest at Barcelona, a pre-Copenhagen climate meeting last month. In the last week of November activists from the Global League of Activists, IndyACT, carried out a […]
In advance of Copenhagen, a new survey shows that Israelis seek action against climate change. The Israeli public is a few steps ahead of its government in wanting to see strong action on climate change, according to a new poll conducted by Ben Gurion University. The survey was done ahead of the international Climate Summit […]
Corals caught munching on jellyfish. Are they adapting to climate change? It would seem that jellyfish, often referred simply to as “jellies” wouldn’t have any problem floating around near patches of coral – unless that coral just happens to be a predatory species known as mushroom coral, or fingia scruposa in Latin. This unusual phenomenon […]