At a time when financial pundits say that the country has exhausted all avenues to deal with the huge budget deficit and the runaway debt bill, some are opting to go back to basics, attempting to alleviate the financial crisis, at least in part. There is near consensus among citizens, both officials and private, that […]

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By Rand Dalgamouni AMMAN – A group of mothers is working to encourage Jordanians to adopt “a green way of life”. With their society GoGreenJordan officially launched late last year, the 16 members are approaching families, schools, companies and officials to adopt more environment-friendly methods in their work, home and life. “We are just a […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Environmentalists and activists will go on a solidarity trip next month to Bergesh Forest, the site selected for the construction of a military academy. The activists are calling for the relocation of the academy, the construction of which could entail uprooting hundreds of centennial trees in one of Jordan’s few […]

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By Simona Sikimic The Daily Star BATROUN, Lebanon: Living by the sea his entire life with the sound of the Mediterranean lapping against his house every day, Georges “Junior” Daou has always been more attuned to nature than the average Lebanese youth. It was only a few months ago, however, that the 24-year-old recent university […]

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Better Place says base price for its flagship Renault Fluence Z.E. electric car will be $34,670 Associated Press Published: 05.20.11, 08:36 / Israel Business Share on TwitterShare on Facebook share Electric car company Better Place has unveiled the pricing of its subscription packages ahead of the rollout of the world’s first nationwide battery-charging grid. World’s […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/19/2011 17:41 Swedish bus to run to Herzliya for the next couple weeks; engine saves about 30% in fuel consumption, 50% in air pollution. Talkbacks (3) The Metropoline Transit Company began using a hybrid Volvo bus this week in Kfar Saba, which will run along the city’s popular No. 29 line to […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/22/2011 23:15 Leading energy firms advocate the future export of both liquefied natural gas from the Leviathan basin, oil shale from the central Israel Shefela rock basin. Leading energy firms advocated the future export of both liquefied natural gas from the enormous Mediterranean Sea Leviathan basin, as well as oil shale from […]

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By Yoram Gabison Solar energy company Sunflower Sustainable Investments and Shikun & Binui are feeling the European debt crisis, after the Spanish government backed out of sweetheart terms for solar power. Sunflower will write down NIS 16 million of its investment in the Olmeda photovoltaic power project in Spain. Shikun & Binui and Sunflower each […]

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BEIRUT: The Environment Ministry is to build hundreds of solar water heaters on the roofs of public institutions, in a project financed by the Italian government. The project, which aims to install around 900 heaters providing hot water for more than 5,000 people, was launched Thursday by caretaker Environment Minister Mohammad Rahhal and the Italian […]

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If the White House can have solar panels, why not the Knesset? Let a new light finally shine forth from Zion. By David Rosenblatt, Yosef I. Abramowitz June 5 marks not only World Environment Day and the anniversary of the Six-Day War; this year it also marks the ribbon cutting for the first solar field […]

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source: ENPI resource centre 26-05-2011 Related article in this site: click here The European Investment Bank, the EU’s long-term financing institution, today announces the signing of a €142 million finance contract for the design and construction of a seawater desalination plant using reverse osmosis technology in Sorek, Israel. The contract, signed with the company Sorek […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/26/2011 03:33 Local communities suffering from mosquito infestation and polluted water to gain relief from new plant supported by World Bank. The World Bank declared its intention to oversee the creation of a $45 million Hebron Waste Water Treatment Plant in the Palestinian Authority at a meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, attended […]

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By Hana Namrouqa ZARQA/BALQA – Increasing water flow in the Zarqa River and removing sewage pipes from the waterway are the starting points for rehabilitating the heavily polluted river, ecologists and environmental experts said on Monday. Addressing the pollution of the Zarqa River, which originates from Ras Al Ain in Amman and flows into the […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 05/24/2011 02:03 FM Yuval Steinitz signs agreement approving new factory near Ashdod, which will make 65% of Israel’s water from desalinated sources. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz signed an agreement on Monday approving the construction and operation of a new desalination facility in Soreq, near Ashdod, which upon completion will make Israel’s domestic […]

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By SHARON UDASIN AND BEN HARTMAN 05/24/2011 01:57 NIS 750 million plan calls for increasing tourism, harvesting salt; MK Henin praises move, says Dead Sea Works should shoulder costs. The Tourism and Environmental Protection Ministries announced on Monday that they will recommend salt harvesting as the solution to the rising water levels in the southern […]

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By JPOST EDITORIAL 05/25/2011 23:18 The Dead Sea will spring raucously to life with the kickstarting of a dispute about who must foot the bill for keeping it healthy. The lowest point on earth promises to rise high on the controversy scale in coming months. The Dead Sea will spring raucously to life with the […]

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Hanin Ramahi The Society of Energy Conservation and Sustainable Environment President Ayyoub Abu Diyye has revealed that there are traces of radiated molecules in the Disi Water Project area, possibly posing a threat to the health of citizens who will be drinking from it. The Disi Water Project is to be completed in 2013, and […]

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By Abeer Numan AMMAN – Jordan must work to store and make use of rainwater instead of focusing on drainage systems in order to address the water problem in the country, University of Jordan (UJ) Professor Nasim Barham said on Monday. Delivering a lecture titled, “Water in Rentier States: A Case Study of Jordan”, at […]

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By Simona Sikimic EIRUT: Water experts from across the Arab world gathered in Beirut Tuesday for a three-day intergovernmental meeting set to discuss legal frameworks monitoring water redistribution and management. “The situation in Lebanon is rather favorable in comparison to its neighbors … but Lebanon must nonetheless take care of its resources and trans-boundary aquifers […]

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