Israel's southernmost city of Eilat, which hosts the annual Eilat Eilot Renewable Energy Conference, will now get a further renewable energy boost by receiving a concession to build a new renewable energy center. The Eilat-Eilot Group which has put (...)
Flowing with our series of Israel's coastal rivers and streams –– which has included the Kishon River, the Alexander and Yarkon rivers –– we travel to Poleg Stream (or Nahal Poleg), a small stream located by the coastal city of Netanya, 30 km north (...)
Consider the following scenario: small United Arab Emirate states like Bahrain and Abu Dhabi are planning to spend billions of dollars on sophisticated weaponry; when one of their real dangers is the deteriorating state of the Persian Gulf and the (...)
HEBRON: Just when we all thought Shai Agassi's Better Place electric car company had the electric car technology field sewed up in this part of the world, some university students in the Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron have come up with some (...)
MANAMA, Bahrain: We have heard this issue before: corals are being killed from human caused environmental damage. We've heard this in a lot of places, especially in the areas like the Persian Gulf; where large scale construction projects in Dubai, (...)
As the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to saturate the Gulf of Mexico with millions of barrels of crude oil and natural gas, company engineers have begun to turn to even more bizarre methods to plug the well that has now been creating (...)
Thinking about buying an electric car like ones being promoted by Shai Agasi’s Better Place? Following my test drive of one of their Renault Fluence ZE Concept cars it turns out that it may be longer than planned before this country will have the (...)
You might be wondering what the Tamar natural gas fields have to do with the Better Place electric car technology company, which recently received a big financial boost from the HSBC banking consortium, and now (hopefully) the Chinese auto company (...)
At the recent CITES Agreement conference in Doha Qatar, a proposal to ban commercial fishing for the Atlantic bluefin tuna, a prized delicacy in Japan, was defeated. It happened during a meeting by representatives of the 175 countries that belong to (...)
The rich folk from the United Arab Emirates are known for their over-the-top cars and wealth. Like gold-plated mercedes. Faux or real, the oil-rich Arab countries, even when they make green initiatives do it in such a bombastic way, (...)
The Golan Heights, a territory of Syria partially occupied by Israel, was thought to become a major location for wind power in Israel when we posted our first Green Prophet article about it back in August, 2008. At that time, there was already a (...)
It’s not just Abu Dhabi looking to build a nuclear power plant for generating electricity. According to the business newspaper Globes, Israel is considering building a nuclear power plant of its own in the Negev desert region.
Instead of (...)
The Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar, together with Qatar Airways, Qatar Science and Technology Park and Petroleum Company have started a new biofuel project to power commercial airliners, including large ones such as Airbus.
As noted in a Gulf (...)
After a burning hot run, Israel’s solar energy business doesn’t look so hot right now. Hundreds of solar-related jobs at stake.
Not long after local and foreign companies made investments in Israeli solar energy installations to benefit from (...)
Seambiotic’s been teaming up with NASA to to create a biofuel suitable for sending astronauts into space (?), and now this company is once again making news in a new venture with the China Goudian utility company to grow micro algae for use as a (...)