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Karin meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East

Oh Almighty God! Oh merciful God! Who’s that god you extend your hands to Sheikh Buddha? Can he hear you? Does he see? … God forgive! Oh Great God of the celestial throne, where are you now??
I looked up into the extensive sky were the Sheikh was extending his hands, but I saw nothing, nothing [...]

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 [...]

After around two months of international phone calls, this Sunday and Monday Green Prophet hosted a whirlwind two-day (20-hour) seminar on environmental blogging in Madaba, Jordan.
Thanks to the good efforts of Volunteers for Peace and the Masar Center, nearly 20 Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli writers and activists met for the first time and learned about [...]

Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanians host cross-border workshop on environment blogging in Jordan to spur Middle East change.
The UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen is putting a lot of pressure on oil-producing nations in the Middle East;

Jewish religious values can help green The Holy Land.
Noam Dolgin is a Jewish environmental educator and the executive director of the Green Zionist Alliance (GZA). Based in Vancouver, Canada, he travels regularly around North America teaching about Jewish
environmental values and Israel’s environment.
Green Prophet sits down with Noam to learn a little more about the [...]

Modern agriculture practices in Israel have caused population shifts in animal species.
Is a border line simply a virtual line appearing on the map? If so, why is it that Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian rodents? Why is it that there are more ant lions in Israel than in Jordan? And how come there [...]

In advance of Copenhagen, a new survey shows that Israelis seek action against climate change.
The Israeli public is a few steps ahead of its government in wanting to see strong action on climate change, according to a new poll conducted by Ben Gurion University.
The survey was done ahead of the international Climate Summit which [...]

“ There’s time to kill and time to heal” This was what “Dr.” Baruch Goldstein said in an interview with an American newspaper a few days before he perpetrated the massacre of killing 29 Palestinian prayers while were kneeling inside the Ibrahimi mosque, at the time everybody was dreaming of the coming peace in [...]

They are on investors’ hit lists and the green tech media is keen to monitor their progress. Key policy makers from the United States urge them on. Israeli solar technology innovators are channelling and shaping the sun’s energy and breaking the world’s dependence on oil.
With organizations like the Cleantech Group, an international business development firm [...]