Methuselah the 10-foot tall date palm tree is a boy, researchers say, and think a female may be found. By Shira Rubin  and Ruth Schuster     | Mar. 31, 2015 | source: Haaretz Methuselah, the Judean date palm grown from a 2,000-year old seed, has turned out to be male, and there’s fresh hope he […]

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April 2015 “Green Economy Initiatives” holds seminar on EcoTourism Business Development EcoPeace’s “Green Economy Initiatives” (GEI) project held a 2-day cross border meeting this month with Israeli Professor Dr. Uri Mayer Chissik – who leads an education program on food heritage and community involvement – and staff from our Sharhabil Bin Hassneh EcoPark (SHE) in […]

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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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by Brian Flood, NewsWire. Source: http://www.newswise.com/articles/great-lakes-middle-east-leaders-to-gather-for-water-summit Government officials, organization leaders and environmental experts from the U.S., Canada and the Middle East will convene April 23-24 for a University of Illinois at Chicago summit addressing water issues in the Great Lakes and Jordan River Valley. “Water After Borders: Global Stakes, Local Politics,” at UIC’s Student Center […]

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(press release) 26 March 2015, SINGAPORE- On Saturday, 28 March 8:30 p.m. local time, individuals, businesses, cities and landmarks around the world will switch off their lights for one hour to focus attention on climate change. As the lights go out, Earth Hour supporters will also be contributing real climate solutions to combat the globe’s […]

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3/03/2015 12:03 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians are suffering from unfair distribution of water resources as Israel is consuming the vast majority of Palestinian water, Palestinian officials said Sunday. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) made the comments in a statement released in honor of World Water Day that […]

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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s offensive on Gaza last summer caused lasting and extensive damage to water, sanitation, and energy infrastructure in Gaza, according to a recent report by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Damage caused to water supply systems by successive rounds of fighting have seriously reduced the territory’s water storage capacity, primarily […]

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HEBRON, March 24, 2015 (WAFA) – The Israeli authorities Tuesday handed a local resident of Um Nir, south of Hebron, an order to demolish his water storage tank, according to local sources. Coordinator of the Anti-Settlement Committee in Hebron, Rateb Jabour, said an Israeli army force broke into the village and handed Mohammad Ali Jabour, […]

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Israel produces 500 million cubic meters of wastewater every year, more than 90 percent of which reaches the various treatment plants. By Zafrir Rinat | Mar. 23, 2015 Israel continues to be a world leader in the successful exploitation of treated wastewater, and over the past decade it nearly doubled the area in which this […]

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Mar. 21, 2015 Mazin Sidahmed| The Daily Star BEIRUT: When Speaker Nabih Berri filed a lawsuit Thursday against merchants for importing toxic waste into Lebanon, he made a point of doing it both as a Lebanese citizen, as well as in his governmental role, judicial sources told The Daily Star. The Amal Movement leader did […]

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Brothers sentenced for operating unauthorized waste disposal site. By Zafrir Rinat | Mar. 23, 2015 Imposing a prison sentence for environmental infractions is a rare event in Israel, but it happened recently. A District Court rejected an appeal by a person convicted of running an unauthorized waste disposal site, and the offenders were ordered to […]

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Hazard left behind after evicted working-class homes were demolished to make way for upscale Tel Aviv housing. By Daniel Dolev | Mar. 26, 2015 MK Ilan Gilon (Meretz) called on the Environmental Protection Ministry Wednesday to remove the asbestos left after the demolition of buildings in Tel Aviv’s Givat Amal Bet neighborhood. Gilon’s letter to […]

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