Friday, October 15, 2010 It is interesting that the Blog Action day (October 15th) coincides with the Arab Environment day (October 14th), and as this year’s topic is water it is highly relevant to blog about water challenges in the Arab world, considered to be one of the most water scarce regions in the world. […]

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Monday, October 18, 2010 Source: Middle East Online PARIS – An alliance of conservationists and international donors unveiled a map of six areas on the Mediterranean rim aimed at guiding policy for preserving precious habitats and threatened species. The 251-page “ecosystem profile” was launched by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, including the US-based NGO Conservation International, […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 10/13/2010 03:31 10m. cubic meters being wasted as a result, says Society for Protection of Nature. The Water Authority has yet to publish guidelines for installing water-saving devices in public buildings despite the fact that the timetable in the law states that it should have done so by April. After the […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 10/20/2010 10:06 The Israel Union for Environmental Defense calls for government to cancel grant due to failure to meet terms. The Israel Union for Environmental Defense (IUED) has demanded that the government cancel a grant of at least NIS 75 million from the public coffers to the developer of the Timna […]

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A short guide to weed through the grains of truth, neo-Bolshevism and mountains of disinformation. By Yoram Gabison “It is unconscionable that the Israeli public be left with just the crumbs from gas profits,” Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich stated last week during a radio interview. Battling interests: Shelly Yachimovitch and the Forum versus Yitzhak Tshuva […]

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Damage to Israel Chemicals won’t be significant, estimates Meitav analyst. The Ministry of National Infrastructure yesterday almost doubled the royalty fee it collects on phosphates mined in Israel. That affects mainly Israel Chemicals, which mines phosphate rock in the Dead Sea area. ICL will have to pay the state 44.3¢ for every ton of phosphate […]

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By Walid M. Sadi It is most regrettable that the Amman Office of Friends of the Earth Middle East had to cancel its participation in the “torch run” cycling tour, originally scheduled for October 10 to raise awareness about environmental concerns, a decision taken under pressure from anti-normalisation groups. While one can understand and appreciate […]

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Rehovot-based company signs multi-million dollar exclusive distribution deal with American solar energy giant; deal worth $50 million over 5 years Navit Zomer Israel is turning into a leading solar water heater supplier in the United States – M.C.O Industries, a Rehovot-based veteran solar water heater manufacturer and one of Israel’s top solar panel producers, signed […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 10/17/2010 01:37 National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau (Israel Beiteinu) dedicated the first Israeli concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system to be hooked up to the national grid in Arad on Thursday. The system was designed by the MST solar energy company, which was founded by Dov Raviv – the father of the Arrow […]

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By MAURICE PICOW 10/15/2010 16:41 Can Israel, a substantial contributor to the Mediterranean’s present unwholesome state, do more than it has done to save it? “Sick and getting sicker” is how oceanographers and environmentalists often describe the Mediterranean. The sea’s already polluted waters are becoming increasingly choked with large quantities of plastic and other debris, […]

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Noble Energy threatens to sue, treasury rebuts: threat is unseemly. By Avi Bar-Eli and Zvi Zrahiya The battle over royalties on Israel’s natural resources reached the Knesset Economics Committee, which held a special session yesterday despite the parliament being in recess. Seventeen Knesset members showed up for the debate, including five not on the committee. […]

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DUBAI (AFP) – Environmental awareness needs to be increased in Gulf states, which the WWF says have among the highest per capita ecological footprints in the world, an Emirates Wildlife Society official said Thursday. “We believe that there’s a lot more awareness that needs to happen,” said the society’s policy director Tanzeed Alam, when asked […]

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By Rand Dalgamouni AMMAN – A campaign to implement environmental education in more than 18 Jordanian schools and others around the world will commence next week, it was announced in a workshop for teachers held at the UNESCO Amman office on Thursday. The five-year Earth Care Campaign, which started this year and ends in 2014, […]

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First store opens next to arch-rival. By Adi Dovrat-Meseritz The Super-Sol supermarket chain has ventured into natural food retailing, under the name Super-Sol Green. The first branch of the new retailing format, which opened a few days ago inside the Super-Sol Deal branch in Ra’anana, is a store within a store. It is only about […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 10/13/2010 03:19 New public relations campaign to be launched on Sunday; 2500 more receptacles will be placed around the country this year. Recycling has picked up over the last couple of years and will continue to increase, according to the ELA recycling corporation’s strategic plan unveiled Tuesday. The corporation will invest […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 10/13/2010 03:08 Any plastic bottle with a cap can be placed in the receptacle. So, any personal hygiene bottle, shampoo container, water, soda bottle – big, small – can be recycled. ELA officials clarified what can and cannot be thrown into the recycling receptacles. Any plastic bottle with a cap can […]

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By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Experts will work to save one of the Kingdom’s World Heritage Sites from degradation under an agreement signed on Thursday. The Department of Antiquities (DoA), the Italian government and the World Monuments Fund (WMF) will embark on a project to restore and protect the 1,300-year-old frescoes of Quseir Amra. Under […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Schoolchildren and people from all walks of life will converge on the Dibbeen Forest Reserve on Saturday to clean up litter left by picnickers at the site, which is considered a sanctuary for globally endangered species. More than 200 volunteers from schools, and public, private and civic institutions will head […]

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By ILANA TEITELBAUM 10/06/2010 14:04 An unwelcome colony? Ring-necked parakeets are threatening biodiversity in the German Colony. On a recent walk through the German Colony, I was treated to a stunning sight. Filling a tree with their flapping green wings was a flock of eight parakeets, calling raucously to each other and pecking at fat […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – The Red-rumped Wheatear, an internationally important and rare bird, and the Egyptian Vulture, a globally endangered species, have been found for the first time in Jabal Masouda, one of four proposed protected areas in the Kingdom. Ecological studies carried out by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) […]

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