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Israel Launches Gigantic 5MW Solar Field (Video)
From a 100MW solar farm in the French Alps through Google's investments in utility-scale solar in Nevada, industrial-sized solar power plants are springing up across the Globe. Now the Israelis are getting in on the act,
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Time Lapse Video of a Strawbale Geodesic House Build (Video)
Earlier today I posted a great video on how to build a worm tower self-spreading composter. In the process, the new YouTube interface drew me into a whole host of fascinating "how to" videos related to permaculture. One in
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Green Shopping In Tel Aviv
One of my favorite things to do when I travel to new cities is check out their green shopping scenes. I was recently in the Tel Aviv/Jaffa region of Israel and had a few hours to visit the area shops and outdoor
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Is Laughter the Best Medicine? For Infertility, It Might Just Be...
We talk a lot about natural medicine and well-being here on TreeHugger. Whether it's herbal remedies for stress or the public health benefits of cycling, there is no doubt that there
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Test-Driving the Better Place Electric Vehicle Experience (Plus: See Their Roadside Battery-Swap Station in Action)
Traffic crawled along the beltway outside Tel Aviv as the sun set in bright orange streaks behind the city. I sat with a group of journalists
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Put Deposits On Everything, Even Street Furniture
Deposits are a wonderful tool; I have previously suggested that It's Time for Deposits. On Everything. Dutch designers Vincent Wittenberg and Guy Königstein have carried the principle a step further,
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Supersonic Jets Put Crocodiles in the Mood for Love
If you thought nothing put a crocodile in the mood for love quite like the beady, vacuous eyes and razor-sharp grin of a potential mate, think again. It turns out that, after millions of years on Earth, sometimes all a
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Israeli Artist Makes Christmas Tree From 5,480 Recycled Plastic Bottles
Devastating forest fires in the area haven't kept Haifa, Israel, from being able to put up a massive Christmas tree in the center of town. It helps, of course, that the tree is made entirely of recycled plastic bottles -- 5,480 of them.
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Hidden Webcam Exposes Chicken Cruelty 24 Hours a Day
From secret footage of cruelty in a commercial hatchery to shocking pictures of supposedly organic egg production, we know that pictures can play an important role in exposing the abuse inherent in the factory farming
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Architects Give Israel's Waterfronts Fresh Appeal
On Saturday mornings, I've gotten into the habit of going for a run by the Marmara Sea. The concrete path is worn, and follows a busy road, but the broad view out over the churning sea
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You Can Sit 12 Different Ways On The Loop Transformer Chair
Imagine what Mel Brooks could do with this; instead of The Twelve Chairs, he just gets one transformer chair that can work twelve different ways. DesignBoom shows Boaz Mendel's Loop Chair can be reassembled as a bar stool, a
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With Light Rail Stalled, A Push for BRT in Tel Aviv
After a decade of fits and starts, the Tel Aviv light rail project finally collapsed last week. Following months of last-ditch negotiations, government officials announced that
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Military-style '3G Drone' Hunts Down Water Loss
They say that wars will some day be fought over water. In the meantime, a military-inspired flying "3G Drone" is helping pinpoint water loss in Israel. The "advanced meter intel collection" system was developed
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Battle Over Natural Gas Royalties Heats Up in Israel
When massive natural gas reserves were discovered off the coast of Israel in early 2009, it seemed as if the country's energy problems were solved. Many expected that a
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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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Amazing Land Art by Andrew Rogers (Slideshow)
From high plains to deep gorges, deserts to rural fields, sculptor Andrew Rogers uses rock walls to outline the forms of symbols important to cultures around the world. Over the
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Gray Whale, Extinct for Centuries, Sighted in Mediterranean
It's really not too often that there's some good news on the endangered species front, but this is one of those times. At the least it's really intriguing. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
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Clunker Buses Transformed into Hip Bed and Breakfast Hotels in Israel
We may send old clunkers to the junk yard here in North America, but one family in Israel
