Tag: Iran
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Stylish apartments built from stonecutting town's wasted material (Video)
Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.
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Why Sri Lanka Will Be Hit Hardest By Iranian Oil Supply Disruption
An important, if short, cautionary tale on being dependent on any single foreign source of energy.
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Eco-Heroes Risk Jail, Censure to Green the Mideast
The Middle East environmental site Green Prophet names 11 eco-heroes for 2011 who are working -- sometimes at great personal risk -- to make the region a cleaner, healthier place.
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Middle Eastern Artists Eye Environmental Threats
With water shortages and air pollution posing increasingly grave threats to the Middle East, artists in the region are working to make environmental issues more visible, both at home and in international
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Fate of Dying Lake Sparks Clashes in NW Iran
Fresh demonstrations have broken out in Iran, where protesters who took to the streets last weekend in the country's northwestern provinces to demand protection for a dying lake were harshly
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Free the Jailed Hikers in Iran, Permaculture Community Pleads (Video)
From child labor in the cocoa industry to human rights issues in the oil industry, we've often reported on the intersect between environmentalism and social justice—but all too often environmentalism and human rights
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Congested Tehran Lauded For Transit Improvements
Smog-choked, traffic-clogged Tehran may seem an unlikely candidate for an environmental honor, but the Iranian capital's aggressive recent moves to improve its public-transit
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Islamic Cycling, Space Tourism, Norway by Bike & Ski? Wend Magazine Has It All
Wend magazine continues to bring together intriguing stories about human powered adventures from around the world. In the current issue, they inform us that in 2010 officials in Isfahan,
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Iran's Lake Urmia Is Drying Up Fast
About 100 years ago, my grandfather emigrated to the United States from a village near Lake Urmia, in what is now northwestern Iran. He died long before I was born, leaving me with
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Greening the Ways We Get Around: Why Attitudes Can Be As Important As Infrastructure
In the latest example of how tough life can be for would-be women cyclists around the world, the new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan has decreed it a crime for women to ride a bike
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Obesity Rates Soaring in Turkey and Iran
In my early months in Istanbul, I had a Turkish teacher who could not get over the fact that I -- an American -- was not fat. "But I went to America and everyone was so
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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms
Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region
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Anti-Littering Campaigns: An Idea Whose Time Has (More Than) Come in Turkey and Iran
In the northeastern reaches of Turkey, outside the city of Kars, I came across one of the most bucolic scenes I'd ever laid eyes on in the
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Centuries-Old State of the Art Still Useful Today
Outside the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin lie the 6th-century ruins of the Roman settlement of Dara,
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U.S., Iran Agree on Need for Increased Environmental Education
Despite the fact that representitives from Iran and the U.S. agree on virtually nothing else in the world, representatives from both countries at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Bali are among those pointing out the need for increased
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Great Rebuttal of a Terrible Coal Ad
The NYT's newly-minted blogger (and all-around excellent climate change journalist) Andrew Revkin follows up his earlier post exposing Peabody Energy's (laughable) ad campaign aimed at sliming Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for making the (right)
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Teen Green: Local Teens Making a Difference
They’re a recently established group of about a hundred teens, but students in Claremont, California are busy making a difference by creating a model environmental structure out of earth and biodegradable materials using Super Adobe, a form of earth
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Let Bygones Be Bygones Already, for the Environment's Sake!
Due to security issues, the date has not been released yet, but we are happy to announce that Middle East environmentalists are putting political pet peeves aside to focus on one goal: preserving the environment.
