By Najib Saab In his inaugural speech at the last World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, Sultan Al-Jaber, a minister of state in the United Arab Emirates and chairman of Masdar, the architecture and ecology, or “arcology,” project, said: “Renewable energy is a critical component for building a sustainable future and has today changed […]

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JERICHO (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Wednesday injured a child during a raid on a West Bank Bedouin village in which they also confiscated solar energy panels donated to locals by a local sustainability organization, a local official said. A Fatah party official in Jahalin, an area in the central West Bank near Abu Dis […]

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By TOVAH LAZAROFF The civil administration on Wednesday confiscated 11 solar panels from the West Bank Beduin encampment of Khan al-Ahmar, located off of Route 1 between the settlements of Ma’aleh Adumim and Kfar Adumim. The encampment of temporary structures lacks electricity and its residents are in the midst of a legal battle with the […]

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By JPost Editorial 04/01/2015 Going green ‘From Zion will go out the law of green energy,” announced Yuli Edelstein at a ceremony on Sunday, inaugurating the Knesset’s solar rooftop. Going green ‘From Zion will go out the law of green energy,” announced Yuli Edelstein at a ceremony on Sunday, inaugurating the Knesset’s solar rooftop. “What […]

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By SHARON UDASIN Advancing what will likely be the company’s second utility-scale solar facility in East Africa, the American- Israeli-led Gigawatt Global firm has secured two international grants worth nearly $1 million for the construction of a photovoltaic field in Burundi. Gigawatt Global, a US-owned Dutch developer co-founded by American-Israeli solar entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz, is […]

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By SHARON UDASIN Tel Aviv-based Eco Wave Power, which works to harness energy from ocean waves, has established a Chinese subsidiary and received approval to establish its first plant in the Asian country, the company announced on Thursday. Eco Wave’s subsidiary, Suzhou Eco Wave Technology, will operate in the city of Changshu, in the jurisdiction […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Mar 30, 2015 AMMAN — The Ministry of Environment has completed distributing the second batch of bins and containers across the country to collect electronic waste, a government official said Monday. The ministry started earlier this month the distribution of 200 bins and containers in the governorates to collect unwanted computers, […]

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By SHARON UDASIN Recycling of household electronic waste is expected to grow by 20 percent over Passover, according to M.A.I. – Electronics Recycling Corp. M.A.I., one of Israel’s electronic waste recycling firms, is expecting to receive about a ton of electronic waste from residences before and during Passover, as people replace old electrical products, CEO […]

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A scholarship opportunity is being offered by the Water Security Research Centre and The Ashton Partnership to an eligible candidate of the MSc in Water Security and International Development for the 2015-16 academic year. The ‘Ashton Partnership Scholarship in Water Security’ offers the scholarship recipient an award of £6,500 as a reduction to tuition fees […]

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