Tag: housing

Habitat For Humanity Restores Jordan’s Salt – PHOTOS

People helping people. Is there a better way to burn a few calories? Habitat for Humanity Jordan (H4H) recently teamed...

Tent City Dismantled in Tel Aviv – Now What?

The protest at its height : nearly 400,000 people jam into Kikar Medinah in Tel Aviv Israel's seven week housing...

Israel's Public Housing Blocks to Get Solar Roofs

Solar panels at a testing site in Abu Dhabi. (photo by Jesse Fox) According to a report published this week...

Passive cooling for Syria’s beehive houses

Way before there were electronic ways to condition our temperatures, cooling methods were built into the architecture of traditional Middle Eastern homes.  Such as the beehive homes found in Syria.

Daniella Unpicks Israel's Relationship With Land and Housing In Amiran Gonen's "Between City and Suburb"

If you’ve heard about the demise of the kibbutz movement, then you may also know that financially strapped communal...

Alubin's All Season Windows Pivot To Save Energy

Windows are one of the most significant costs in building projects or home renovations. Next to that are the...

Nurit – Israel's First "Eco-Friendly" Town

(Map of Nurit, from Google Earth) It's one thing to adopt environmentally conscious behavior, such as recycling, taking public transportation,...

Israeli Eco Tourism Welcomes the Yurt

If you don't know what a yurt is, have no fear.  Most people don't (including yours truly).  But yurts,...

Can Housed and Happy Palestinians Lead to a Greener Mid-East?

Green Ps (that's a new abbreviation we made up today), are of the notion that only people who...

Rawabi offers suburban affordable housing Palestinians

A few weeks ago, we were driving our "tourist" mom from Canada around the country, when we accidentally took...