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Jerusalem Post

Aug. 2, 2007

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Every night before Ron Shani's father dropped him off at the children's house in
Kibbutz Amiad, he would ask whether he wanted to hear a story about an inventive
patent or world news. "It didn't matter which one I picked, he always told me a
story about water," says Shani, 39, an engineer. "This is where my knowledge of
water originated. I grew up learning about water filters and solutions from my
father."

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Haaretz

July 25, 2007

By Eli Ashkenazi

A tiny wasp that has ravaged eucalyptus groves in the Mediterranean Basin, Africa and the Far East, and which arrived in Israel a few years ago, has proven anew that no organism is eternally dominant. Israeli researchers have found a predator one millimeter in length called Closterocerus, which thwarts the wasp's advance.

Continue reading "Israelis discover bug that saves eucalyptus groves" »

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Israel 21c

July 01, 2007

DEMOCRACY

By Ilana Teitelbaum

From the moment we wake up in the morning and open a box of cereal to the hours we spend at work among printers, faxes, and copying machines, to times spent relaxing in the evening with a magazine or mass market paperback, we are constantly surrounded by paper.

Continue reading "Israeli discovery paves way for cost-efficient wood alternative" »

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Israel 21c

July 05, 2007

TECHNOLOGY

By Nicky Blackburn

You can tell Joseph Cory is a dreamer. Turn to his company's web site, Geotectura.com, and you see a host of ideas ranging from the wild - a one-meter square movable 'house' for the homeless, to the wacky, electro-magnetic skyscrapers that float above the ground. But out of this riotous imagination, Cory, a new breed of environmental architect, has developed a number of award-winning schemes that could help deal with some of the world's most pressing problems - lack of renewable energy, and water scarcity.

Continue reading "Israeli inventor puts his head in the clouds and his feet on the ground" »

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Jerusalem Post

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Jun. 24, 2007 22:36 | Updated Jun. 25, 2007 0:04

A new way to produce electricity using helium balloons coated with solar cells has been devised by researchers at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Scientists from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Architecture and City Construction have already installed two models, one in the city and one in a desert area that lacks power.

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Jerusalem Post

By MATTHEW KRIEGER
Jun. 21, 2007 21:38 | Updated Jun. 22, 2007 4:45

Plastic from corn, biological-weapons neutralization and the vanquishing of pollutants from munitions were among the topics discussed at this month's "Green Chemistry" conference at Tel Aviv University, the first such meeting held in Israel.

"The development of the field of green chemistry in Israel is of tremendous importance to the future of industrial and academic development in the country, as well as to the health of the public and the environment in the region," said officials at TAU's Porter School of Environmental Studies, which hosted the two-day event.

Continue reading "Green Chemistry' promises a cleaner country" »

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The Jerusalem Post

Jun. 15, 2007

PINCHAS LANDAU

The fear stalking financial markets this week was that the weakness in the bond markets presaged a drying up of liquidity. After all, as noted here so often, the whole global financial boom is predicated on the easy and plentiful availability of money - which in market jargon is called "liquidity."

But in the real world, a much greater and more substantive fear is that real liquidity will dry up. Unlike financial liquidity, which is make-believe stuff created by central and commercial banks - i.e. fallible humans playing God - real liquidity is water and it can't be "created," it has to exist first somewhere in the physical world. But, as is well known, there isn't enough of it, hence the concern that parts of the world will dry up, causing great hardship to vast numbers of people.

Continue reading "Global Agenda: Water way to wealth" »

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Haaretz

June 5, 2007

By Dan Rabinowitz

Forty years after June 5, 1967, a variety of symposia, conferences and discussions are being held that stress the malignant effect of the occupation - on the Palestinians, of course, but also on morality, society, solidarity and politics in Israel. A few weeks ago, when those who have fond memories of 1967 tried to celebrate what they call "the reunification of Jerusalem," the result was a limp demonstration of nostalgic blasts on trumpets. It is good that this week, sane, critical voices are being heard. This will help many people to identify, in anger and anxiety, the depressing future that the occupation is passing down to us for years to come as well.

Continue reading "What day is today?" »

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YNET

March 30, 2007

Joint venture could help save the environment while forging stronger collaborative ties in Middle East
IEICI
Published: 05.30.07, 18:07 / Israel Money

An Israeli-Jordanian automotive project is taking a big leap forward. Executives from Renault and Toyota have been speaking to officials from both sides, in an attempt to launch a joint venture for a factory specializing in
environmentally-friendly electric cars. According to the plan, the location of this factory would be near the border between Israel and Jordan, in an area called Peace Valley.

Continue reading "Israel, Jordan to build cars together" »

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The Jerusalem

May. 30, 2007

YORAM DORI

It is said of Israel that she is a mini-cosmos. A country of immigrants hailing from more than 120 countries: fair-skinned and dark-skinned, Chinese and Indian, haredim and atheists. An 80 percent Jewish majority that lives alongside an Arab minority, mostly Muslims, an island in an Islamic sea in the throes of a power struggle between Shi'ite and Sunni hegemony, and counting a population of 7 million spread over an area (sovereign Israel) that measures a mere 20,770 kilometers.

Continue reading "Israel and the Garden of Eden" »

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Pollution Online

May 21, 2007

Beersheba, Israel — A new and valuable tool for fighting soil and ground water pollution has been developed by Dr. Ofer Dahan, a researcher at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR) at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research. The information was made public as part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research as part of the University’s 37th Annual Board of Governors meeting. At the same event, the new building for the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research was dedicated.

Continue reading "Researcher Develops Tool For Fighting Soil And Groundwater Pollution" »

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The Jerusalem Post

Mar. 5, 2007

Sheera Claire Frenke

Despite Israel's carcinogenic waterways, local companies lead the world in clean-water know-how, and 2007 is set to be a banner year for foreign sales of the blue-and-white technology.

Dozens of groups from across the globe are planning trips to Israel this year with an eye toward purchasing some of the environmentally friendly technology being developed by Israeli scientists. The industry brought approximately one billion dollars last year, but Avraham Israeli, head of Water and Environmental Technology at the Israel Export Institute, said Israel's slice of the international pie could be $10 billion.

Continue reading "Israel's green technology leads world, but not at home" »

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Haaretz

February 26, 2007

By Zafrir Rinat

The government of Israel lined its pockets with plenty of cash last week through the privatization of the Haifa-based Oil Refineries and also ensured handsome revenues for the new controlling shareholders. The calculation of monetary profit has already been made, but another calculation - environmental and health - remains unresolved.

Continue reading "Only the pollution was not privatized" »

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Arab Environment Monitor

February 20, 2007

Derek Sands
UPI

CAIRO -- Egypt may soon harness the same physics that a child uses to burn an ant with a magnifying glass, to generate electricity from the sun, a move that reflects the growth of Concentrating Solar Power technology worldwide.

Continue reading "Egypt tries harnessing Solar Power" »

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Haaretz / Jordan Times

February 15, 2007

By Margaret Beckett

[listserve note: published in both Jordan Times and Haaretz, unusual for the region]

All too often the news is dominated by conflict and disagreement. Then a threat of such magnitude comes along that it forcefully reminds us of our common humanity - in other words just how much all of us, whatever our background, creed or colour hold in common. For our generation that threat is climate change.

Continue reading "The threat that unites us all" »

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