Top Middle East “Green” News of 2009
December 27th, 2009
Want to read the most popular green stories of 2009 on your favourite Middle East environment blog? Read on.
Every blog and news site does it as a way to gain perspective: Whether you’ve celebrated the Muslim New Year more than a week ago, or the Jewish New Year a couple of months ago, our global calendar is about to tack on another year. 2010 is around the corner. Before we get there, Green Prophet looks back at the top 10 most popular stories concerning the Middle East in the year 2009. We’ve chosen these stories based on the number of hits they’ve registered on our site.
Read on to enjoy!
1. Is the Z5 retrofit for your car, claiming to save gas and emissions the real deal? The jury’s not out on this one, but thousands of people are curious.
2. Dubai’s wind-powered building in motion has sparked a lot of interest this year. Even though this story was written in 2008.
3. For some reason, people keep coming back for more of this Middle East classic, making our Baba Ganoush recipe a best-seller!
4. EWA from Israel says it can squeeze water from thin air. We can’t get enough of these kinds of stories.
5. Dubious Dubai reports that it will constructing a refrigerated beach. Is this one excess too much? Readers think so.
6. The Gulf’s artificial islands are a disaster waiting to happen. When faced with a tsunami, or another natural disaster, it could be bye-bye to people and the mega-construction project.
7. Readers want to know what kind of clean technologies from Israel could make our world cleaner and greener. Read our big broad-brush overview.
8. Saudi Arabia claims that it’s built the world’s biggest desalination plant. Read all about it at spot #8.
9. Okay, seriously. Green Prophet readers love to eat. Spot #9 is filled by something yummy: a Middle East delight – a recipe for kibbeh.
10. David de Rothschild, a billionaire heir, hopes to draw attention to the world’s polluted marine ecosystems by creating a sailboat made from plastic bottles, Green Prophet reports.
(This post was first published on Green Prophet)
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Ecological balance will be the theme for the foreseeable future. The Baha’i Edifices in Haifa are set in the gardens like pavilions, instead of allowing one to dominate the other. Down the terraces of the mountain runs water toward the sea. Sunlight, earth, air, and water are symbolic of life, yet each can kill when out of balance.
By Thine aloneness the Sun of Oneness shone, and by Thy banishment the land of Unity was adorned. Be patient, O Thou Exile of the worlds.~From the Fire Tablet by Baha’u'llah
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I think Mideast Youth is doing a good thing, contributing to world press about Iran and other countries, like this verse:
O CHILDREN OF FANCY! Know, verily, that while the radiant dawn breaketh above the horizon of eternal holiness, the satanic secrets and deeds done in the gloom of night shall be laid bare and manifest before the peoples of the world. (Baha’u'llah, The Persian Hidden Words #67)