Environmental Protection Ministry raises concerns over sensitive facility’s fortification; severe impact should it suffer a missile hit Amir Ben-David Published: 08.22.12 State Comptroller Joseph Shapira is set to review the security and fortification arrangements set in place for the Haifa Bay ammonia depository, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The ammonia depository is considered one of the major […]

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Environmental Protection Ministry offers new government grants meant to encourage eco-friendlily power production Ynetnews Published: 08.31.12, The Environmental Protection Ministry announced it will award NIS 70 million (roughly $18 million) in grants to entrepreneurs who will pursue the eco-friendly production of electricity from organic waste. The ministry has set a three-year deadline for the facilities […]

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The two sides discuss the possibility of developing a joint terminal for exporting natural gas. By Itai Trilnick | Sep.03, 2012 Cyprus is asking to import Israeli natural gas to power its electrical generators until the island republic’s own gas reserves are developed and come on stream. That is the outcome of a meeting on […]

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Israel Electric Corporation wins bid by Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation; set to help it improve management service Published: 09.02.12 srael Electric Corporation (IEC) announced Monday that it has won a tender by Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO), to help it improve its management services and production. IEC went after the bid as part of its […]

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Ron Lauder’s RWL Water subsidiary to set up graywater facility to aid country’s oil industry Billie Frenkel Published: 09.03.12 Ron Lauder’s RWL Water subsidiary Nirosoft has been awarded a $100 million contract to build a water desalination plant in Colombia. The contract was signed between Nirosoft and Colombia’s Pacific Rubiales Energy – the country’s biggest […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Aug 29, 2012 AMMAN — The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) has banned the hunting of chukars and other partridges this year due to a considerable decline in their numbers, a conservationist said on Wednesday. “Following conservationists’ studies indicating a clear drop in chukar and partridge numbers and […]

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RAMALLAH, September 3, 2012 (WAFA) – The Palestinian human rights group, Al-Haq, in a press release Monday, called on the Israeli authorities to immediately stop the pillaging of the Palestinian natural resources and halt the concession of substantial financial incentives to settlers living in the area. Al-Haq announced the publication of “Pillage of the Dead […]

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By JPOST EDITORIAL 09/01/2012 The organization’s contribution to making Israel bloom before and the establishment of the state has been enormous. Many of us remember growing up with the Blue Box, the symbol of Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund, in which we collected money for redeeming the Land of Israel. The Blue Box was created […]

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Raising awareness to protect GWN cultural landscape Friends of the Earth Middle East continues in its efforts to protect the cultural and heritage landscape of the Judean / Jerusalem Hills where residents of the Good Water Neighbor communities of the West Bethlehem villages and Mateh Yehuda Regional Council are working together to stop the Separation […]

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CONTENTS 4 Arabs’ share of climate taxes (editorial by Najib Saab) 20 Energy from waste (cover story) 26 Green economy in Morocco 28 Will hunting be permitted in Lebanon this season? 30 Qatari students map mangroves 32 Tunisia’s wetlands 40 Whale Valley: secrets in the Egyptian wilderness 44 Bolivia’s salt desert 48 China combats desertification […]

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KVUTZAT YAVNE, Israel (AP) — Israel has developed some of the world’s most advanced solar energy equipment and enjoys a nearly endless supply of sunshine, but when it comes to deploying large-scale solar technology at home, the country remains in the dark ages. Solar power provides just a tiny percentage of Israel’s energy needs, leaving […]

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August 31, 2012 BEIRUT: Lebanon will continue to lag behind its regional peers in oil and gas exploration and production due to persistent political risks, Business Monitor International said. Disputes within the government coalition are also impeding oil and gas exploration, BMI added, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of Byblos Bank. […]

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Bat Yam, Eilat, Herzliya and several other cities join project aimed at recycling two-thirds of household containers within three years. By Zafrir Rinat | Aug.28, 2012 ave your holiday garbage, people of Israel: save your emptied plastic bottles of floor cleaner and cans of consumed corn. No, the trash doesn’t have to stay festering and […]

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Environmental activists are working to remove fishing nets from the Gulf of Eilat, claiming they are death traps for sea life. By Zafrir Rinat | Aug.12, 2012 Having fought for many long years against the practice of raising fish in cages in Eilat, due to concerns about pollution from fish excrement, environmental activists have discovered […]

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August 23, 2012 12:47 AM By Mahmoud Mohieldin Achieving a more sustainable world presupposes a worldview that considers well-being not only in terms of income, but also in terms of human security and opportunities for every person to thrive. It is worth considering what the world would look like from such a perspective. For starters, […]

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August 30, 2012 01:16 AM By Antoine Amrieh KOURA, Lebanon: A group of five men were arrested for allegedly cutting down 115 olive trees in the Koura village of Harisha which they planned to sell as wood. The village’s custodian, Aziz Alawa, first noticed from a hill in Anefh village that trees in an olive […]

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HEBRON, August 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday notified the residents of Khirbet al-Taban, a locale east of the town of Yatta south of Hebron, of their plans to remove the solar cells in the area; the only source of electricity there, according to a local activist. Ratib al-Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Committee […]

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editor’s note: see for background the previously posted article, “The Settlement Movement and The Environmental Card [Daily Beast]” New environmental report compiled by ‘Green Now’, association of cities in Judea and Samaria finds that West Bank environment is in danger, quality of life harmed Aryeh Savir, Tazpit Published: 08.30.12 A new environmental report compiled by […]

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RAMALLAH, August 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Head of the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) Shaddad Attili condemned Israel’s destruction of Palestinian agricultural wells in the Kufr Dan area, near Jenin, according to a statement by PWA on Monday. The statement came following the Israeli military threat to destroy more wells in Jenin area if Palestinian farmers […]

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Almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030 and strategists from Israel to Central Asia prepare for strife. Chris Arsenault 26 Aug 2012 The author Mark Twain once remarked that “whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over” and a series of reports from intelligence agencies and research groups indicate the prospect […]

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