We know that it's not productive to dwell on environmental doom and gloom. Green Prophet readers are modern and hip people; we are environmentally responsible, but hey, not totally perfect. Every so often, we just need to cry. We can put on a Tori (...)
It's perfectly logical: When the thermostat rises on scorching hot days, the air conditioners kick in, causing a massive electricity surge that strains the grid. Summer blackouts and brownouts are already occurring in the US and in the Middle East. (...)
JAFFA: He rolls with some of Israel's most illustrious millionaires, businesspeople and entrepreneurs, making Imad Telhami—the CEO of Babcom IT outsourcing and call centres in Israel's Galilee—not your average Israeli Arab businessman.
Telhami's (...)
JAFFA: He rolls with some of Israel's most illustrious millionaires, businesspeople and entrepreneurs, making Imad Telhami — the CEO of Babcom IT outsourcing and call centers in Israel's Galilee — not your average Israeli Arab (...)
Aligning America with United Arab Emirates? the The US Department of Energy (DoE) and Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multifaceted renewable energy initiative which includes an eco-city with the same name, signed a Memorandum of Understanding this week to (...)
TEL AVIV: We know that billionaires with their minds and hearts in right place, can do right by the planet.
Taking notice, Forbes business magazine has looked beyond its regular annual billionaires list and has plucked out Israel’s banking and (...)
News accounts on CNN make it look like every Jew and Arab in Israel are mortal enemies. But in truth, tens of dozens of intentional coexistence projects are ongoing, started by Arab and Jewish friends as a means to break through the barriers of (...)
JAFFA: News accounts on CNN make it look like every Jew and Arab in Israel are mortal enemies. But in truth, tens of dozens of intentional coexistence projects are ongoing, started by Arab and Jewish friends as a means to break through the barriers (...)
Countries in the Arab world are starting to wake up to the potential of solar energy, especially those with no known oil reserves. Morocco is the latest to announce its intentions to solar-ize the country in a $9 billion project, reports the Global (...)
Coastal waters are evolutionary hotspots, says Jerry Berne, a shoreline expert from the NGO Sustainable Shorelines in the US. Based in Charlotte, NC, USA, Berne is concerned about the toll construction and shoreline projects are having on the (...)
If you live in the Middle East, like I do, you’ll notice one of the most irritating habits you can’t escape is smoking. Cigarettes, pot, hookah pipe. Either you fight it or join them – something I did after being a virgin non-smoker for a (...)
The Arab world is in a water crisis. That much we know from this week’s news. To encourage more regional cooperation, Green Prophet has been building on a series of interviews with influential water experts from Israel. In partnership with the (...)
TEL AVIV: The 2,000-mile border between Mexico and the United States is nothing compared to the short distances of about 100 miles between the major cities in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.
Borders, distances and how we cross them (...)
I am fighting the anti-Israel boycott in academia and science by doing the opposite, says Mark Gluck, professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University-Newark. Any boycott of Israeli research would not only stifle Israel s enormous ongoing (...)