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Archives for June, 2011

U.N. warns of heavy price if loss of Lebanon’s forests continues – Daily Star

June 07, 2011 01:48 AM By Patrick Galey The Daily Star BEIRUT: The United Nations has ushered in its World Environment Day with a stark warning that the continued degradation of the region’s forests could have a disastrous affect on Arab economies. Environmental campaigners added that Lebanon, as one of the greenest Middle Eastern states, […]

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‘Amman will purchase 10 m. cubic meters of Israeli water’ – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 06/07/2011 04:13 Jordanian newspaper reports water shortages in Jordan Valley prompt expected purchase this summer. Talkbacks (13) Jordan is expected to buy 10 million cubic meters of additional water from Israel’s Lake Kinneret supply this summer due to water shortages in the Jordan Valley, Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm reported an unidentified Jordanian […]

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Water bill would require public institutions to recycle – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 06/07/2011 05:53 Knesset c’tee approves bill on regulation of water separation systems, collection, reuse of drain water to optimize usage. Talkbacks (3) The Knesset Internal Affairs and Environmental Committee approved a bill Monday morning that would require public institutions to use recycled, or gray water, a committee spokesman announced that afternoon. The […]

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Imagining Fukushima in the Negev – Haaretz

If an enemy missile succeeded in hitting a nuclear power station here, it could lead to a major dispersal of radiation and the exposure of large populations. By Hillel Shuval In this era of growing concern with global warming and the search for clean energy sources, many countries, including Israel, have given renewed consideration to […]

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CDR defends new Nahr al-Mott bridge as solution to traffic jams – Daily Star

June 09, 2011 02:13 AM By Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star BEIRUT: A new bridge leading to Sin al-Fil from the Nahr al-Mott area prompted officials from the Council for Development and Reconstruction Wednesday to hold a news conference to defend the project as an improvement in the traffic situation. Project manager Elie Helou said […]

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A bus named flop – Haaretz

Many families who don’t earn enough to cover their monthly expenses are forced to buy a car only so they can get to work on time, and the high price of gasoline affects them seriously. It’s a failure that costs billions of shekels a year: in endless traffic jams, wasted fuel, accidents, frayed nerves and […]

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First Large-Scale Solar Field Could be a Model for Israel-Palestinian Partnership – PRI World

As a small Middle Eastern country with no oil of its own, Israel’s long-held dream of energy independence has been just that, a dream. And as for the Palestinians, not having a state of their own has also put energy independence out of reach. But one thing Israel and the Palestinian territories do have in […]

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Arava’s Energy Partnership Aims to Bridge Borders and Reduce Emissions [AoL Energy]

By Shifra Mincer Published: May 27, 2011 source: http://energy.aol.com/2011/05/27/aravas-energy-partnership-aims-to-bridge-borders/ Nestled deep in Israel’s Negev desert, just several miles from the Gaza Strip on one side and Jordan on the other, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is a multinational education center whose aim is to use environmental projects to scale back more than just carbon emissions. “We live […]

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Let peace begin with water [Israel 21c]

By Karin Kloosterman June 06, 2011 Named a Hero of the Environment by TIME magazine, Israeli lawyer Gidon Bromberg and his colleagues in Friends of the Earth Middle East are also heroes of peacemaking. In the early 1990s, a young Israeli lawyer doing a master’s thesis on environmental international law concluded that the environment could […]

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Israel unveils first commercial solar power plant – Haaretz

Arava Power’s 4.95 megawatt solar power plant at Kibbutz Keturah is the first of about 50 photovoltaic power fields to be built throughout the southern Negev desert by the end of 2014. By David Sheen and Reuters Israel’s Arava Power unveiled the country’s first commercial solar power plant on Sunday, showing it off to government […]

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‘Jordan can be a world model of renewable energy exploitation’ – Jordan Times

By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – An environment expert on Sunday urged the Ministry of Environment to launch a grass-roots initiative that encourages Jordanians to benefit from Jordan’s abundant solar power. President of the Energy Conservation and Sustainable Environment Society Ayoub Abu Dayyeh proposed that the ministry support install solar panels for households to reduce Jordan’s […]

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High fertility rates take a toll on lifestyle, environment – Jordan Times

By Laila Azzeh AMMAN – If the total fertility rate (TFR) remains unchanged, Jordan’s population will double in about 30 years, placing more pressure on the environment, food, water, housing, health, education and employment services, experts say. The current fertility rate is the same it has been since 2002, standing at an average of 3.8 […]

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Green the Grey: Activists hold picnic in Beirut on temporary grass – Daily Star

BEIRUT: Around 200 people celebrated World Environment Day Saturday with a picnic on green grass – in Beirut’s concrete Sassine Square. “Green the Grey” was organized by the Beirut Green Project. Dima Boulad, one of BGP’s founders, told The Daily Star that they put on the event “because we feel that [green spaces are] a […]

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Dozen sites in Jordan identified as globally ‘Important Plant Areas’ – Jordan Times

By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – An international report has identified 12 sites in Jordan as globally Important Plant Areas (IPAs) which necessitate conservation programmes to safeguard their unique species. The Important Plant Areas of the South and East Mediterranean Region: Priority Sites for Conservation Report, which was released on Wednesday, identified more than 200 internationally […]

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RSCN builds more reserves to protect nature – Jordan Times

By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Authorities seized and confiscated over 30 locally and globally threatened species during 2010 at the Kingdom’s air and land ports, according to the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN). Twelve falcons at Jordan’s border crossing with neighbouring countries and scores of turtles at the Queen Alia International Airport […]

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Palmahim desalination plant output up by 15% – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 06/03/2011 03:49 Water production will be temporarily increased by about 10-20 million cubic meters per year collectively through the end of 2013. Talkbacks (3) The desalination plants in Palmahim and Hadera will temporarily increase their water production by about 10- 20 million cubic meters per year collectively through the end of 2013, […]

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Our water woes – Jerusalem Post

By JPOST EDITORIAL 06/04/2011 22:07 Even the Knesset and the government are taking an unprecedented interest, albeit a belated one, in our water bills. Talkbacks (2) Even the Knesset and the government are taking an unprecedented interest, albeit a belated one, in our water bills. Not only are we paying more than ever for our […]

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2 TA beaches closed due to sewage, 2 from storm damage – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 05/31/2011 18:37 Contamination shuts Gordon Beach just three weeks after receiving top marks in Environment Protection Ministry’s quality rankings. Talkbacks (1) Gordon Beach and Charles Clore Beach in Tel Aviv have been closed until further notice due to sewage contamination, the Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday. The ministry also informed the Tel […]

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new publication: Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security – Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks.

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to a major peer-reviewed scientific handbook that was written by 164 authors from 48 countries and edited by eight experts from seven countries: – Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Czeslaw Mesjasz, John Grin, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Béchir Chourou, Pal Dunay, Jörn Birkmann (Eds.): Coping with Global […]

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Arabic training manual on gender, climate change released – Jordan Times

By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – The first Arabic language training manual on gender and climate change was released on Monday with the aim of mainstreaming gender considerations in climate change mitigation and adaptations efforts in Jordan. The Arabic version, which was issued by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), clarifies the linkage […]

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