published December 23, 2010 and has No Comments
A cross section of an electric vehicle conversion of a Renault Laguna on display at Better Place in Tel Aviv. 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 in a silver Volkswagen van that slowly lurched toward the headquarters of Better ...
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published December 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Images credit Vincent Wittenberg and Guy Königstein 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, to street furniture. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Put Deposits On Everything, Even Street Furniture
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published August 22, 2010 and has No Comments
A layer of smog hovers over the Tel Aviv skyline (photo by the author). 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 they were cancelling agreements with the consortium that was supposed to build and operate the first line of ...
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published August 20, 2010 and has No Comments
Photos courtesy of Arad Technologies LTD 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 by Master Meter, an arm of Arad Technologies LTD , located in Israel. ... Read the full story on ...
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published August 1, 2010 and has No Comments
"The gas belongs to the public" - one of Civil Action Forum's publicity cartoons. 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 resource bonanza was on th... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published June 27, 2010 and has No Comments
The 2,000-year-old aqueduct system found in the Turkish town of Patara would have met current engineering standards. Photo by Jennifer Hattam Outside the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin lie the 6th-century ruins of the Roman settlement of Dara, with its cliff-carved tombs and cool, vaulted cisterns . But perhaps most impressive is the series of rock channels that served ...
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published June 21, 2010 and has No Comments
"Ancient Language," 2004, Atacama Desert, Chile. Photo by Andrew Rogers 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 past decade, his massive land art pieces have spanned five continents. The wor... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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published June 21, 2010 and has No Comments
"Ancient Language," 2004, Atacama Desert, Chile. Photo by Andrew Rogers 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 past decade, his massive land art pieces have spanned five continents. The wor... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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published May 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Gray whale in Baja California, photo: Marlin Harms 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 reports that there's been a sighting of a gray whale in the Mediterranean in the waters off ...
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published May 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Exterior of one of the zimmerbuses. All photos courtesy of zimmer.co.il . Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . We may send old clunkers to the junk yard here in North America, but one family in Israel recycles old busses into bed-and-breakfast digs. The Zi... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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