One State. One Environment
As peace talks resume, can environmental issues create bridges and links between opposing sides? JERUSALEM – Every few years, the idea of establishing one state between the Jordan River and the...
View ArticleUAE Man Campaigns Against Reckless Driving That Killed His Sister. Part I.
Every day 35 people are killed in the Gulf as a result of poor driving. Mohd Shahnawaz has launched a new campaign to change the attitude behind the Gulf’s reckless drivers. Just yesterday we posted a...
View ArticleUAE Man Campaigns Against Reckless Driving That Killed His Sister. Part II.
Every day, 35 people are killed in the Gulf as a result of poor driving. Mohd Shahnawaz has launched a new campaign to change the attitude behind the Gulf’s reckless drivers. This is the second in a...
View ArticleLeaders In The Middle East Need To Take A Big Jump To Address Water Problems
There will be no peace without water. Leaders need to address the Middle Eastern water scarcity with the same urgency as oil. People often associate the Middle East with oil. But in the region’s...
View ArticleUAE To Cut Electricity Output, Carbon Emissions
The United Arab Emirates has one of the largest carbon footprints in the world. Not surprising considering the small country has an indoor ski hill in the middle of the desert and a number of other...
View ArticleFeng Shui Meets The Middle East in Jewish Tradition
Is Feng Shui kosher? An Israeli world musician Yisrael Borochov discovers some unusual connections between the Chinese practice of Feng Shui and ancient Jewish traditions of how to live in harmony with...
View Article7 Books To Start The New Year Green And Right
If the mechanics behind Global Warming has eluded you, or if you’re excited by a few cooking tips or a good old fashioned dystopic novel, then dig in, because we’ve got seven books that will help you...
View ArticleItaly’s Solergy Headed by Israeli From the Global Village
Meet Yoav Banin, CEO of Solergy, a solar power company in California and Italy. Reared in California by Israeli parents, and married to an Italian wife, Yoav Banin speaks to his two young sons in...
View ArticleNuclear Fears: Myths and Reality – A Physicist Talks Straight About Japan
Physicist and guest blogger Susan Goodman puts the Japan nuclear news in proportion to non-scientists. Perhaps in the west we still retain some false sense of culpability for the discovery of nuclear...
View ArticleCollPlant Enables Vegan-Friendly Collagen
Vegan-friendly lip enhancers? CollPlant makes an animal-free collagen, using tobacco plants. Advocates of vegetarianism often point out the detrimental effects of raising livestock on the environment....
View ArticleEgyptians Question the Health of Their Tap Water
With an abundant Nile flowing through it, people in Cairo wonder about industrial pollution dumping affecting their health, and future. A common question asked by visitors to Cairo is “can I drink the...
View ArticleSyria on Track to Becoming Irreversible Desert
Poor management and water intensive crops to blame for what could be an irreversible desert in Syria. “If desertification is not controlled, it threatens the land and our heritage,” Abdulla Tahir Bin...
View ArticleDiscovery of Natural Gas in Israel is a World-class Game Changer
The massive natural gas find in Israel and political tensions with Turkey, could put Turkey out of the energy story with Israel. It’s a big deal, says Washington based energy analyst Gal Luft. A door...
View ArticleEco-Tripping With The Wood-Auster Family – From Australia to Israel
An Australian family of five goes on a 5-month worldwide eco-tour. Their adventure begins at Kibbutz Lotan in Israel as GoEco volunteers for 5 weeks. Read about the Wood-Auster family experience, told...
View Article5 Environmental Discoveries that Originated in the Middle East
When we think of the environment today, the West looks like the clear leader. But did you know that some of the world’s most important discoveries originated in the Middle East? The Middle East,...
View ArticleMaking Innovation Matter in Water's Terms
Ambika, a research analyst who specializes on Middle East environment issues including conflict and water, reports on her trip to Sweden, where she finds grassroots solutions like the Peepoo Bag –...
View ArticleMaking Magestic (and Biblical) Cedars of Lebanon Sustainable in Our Times
Lebanon is eager to replant their cedars – a national symbol. But a sustainable, community-wide vision is in need. The Hebrew bible is replete with references to the cedars of Lebanon, and uses them as...
View ArticleEgypt to Build Two 100 MW Solar Energy Plants
More news to make Ra, the Egyptian sun god proud: Egypt gets serious about building solar energy plants on top of its 500 MW plant, with bids open for 1,000 MW more. The Egyptian government hopes two...
View ArticleDead Sea Worker Exposes Environmental Disaster Through Film
Learning a lesson from the BP workers who kept silent about Deepwater Horizon’s inevitable burst, Dead Sea Workers speak out. And one is putting it on film. The BP workers from the Gulf of Mexico kept...
View ArticleJewish Charity UJIA Goes Green in London
UJIA’s Green Thread aims to make the charity more ecologically and economically efficient One of the biggest Jewish charities in the UK has adopted a green policy to reduce its environmental footprint....
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