He came from the dot-com market with a boom and a bust, but in the Arab world. Ziad Tassabehji has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Born in Lebanon and now living in the UK after more than two decades in the United Arab Emirates, Ziad started his first Internet...

People like flashy new cars over used cars despite the environmental implications and huge cost savings for no-car families. I never had the luxury of driving in a new car when I was a kid. My dad insisted on patching jalopies together. My starkest memory was at the age of...

Here are some green book gift giving ideas for Christmas: Whether you are buying for a business executive who needs to make the company more sustainable (hint, hint), a young environmental activist who wants to change the world, or an MBA student eager to be in the loop,...

Natasha Paracha was Miss Pakistan World in 2008. In 2011, she's using her beauty and smarts to build a sustainable renewable energy climate in Pakistan.

Everyone knows that the first thing you ask any beauty queen is about that wish -- what she would do to make the world a...

The American Government wants it. So does its people. Renewable energy -- that which doesn't burn fossil fuels, expected to reach a catastrophic climax of supply, known as Peak Oil, sometime in the near future. When the oil runs out, so does our carbon intensive lifestyle of cheap flights to...

A few days after one thousand Israelis stripped bare for the American photographer Spencer Tunick at the Dead Sea, researchers working in a more "scientific approach" to saving the planet found two extraordinary things in the Dead Sea just this week: a German and Israeli team uncovered new...

It's really easy to sit at your kitchen table in Brooklyn, Toronto, Vancouver or Berkeley and shoot off comments about the Middle East conflict. It's harder when you live in it. It's hard when you have to think twice about taking the bus, plane or train because it might blow...

Arab uprisings, Iran's uranium enrichment, and flotillas to Gaza: The Middle East always seems to be riddled with conflict, and problems, and sometimes I think that the West is happy to keep the Middle East that way.

It makes for good entertainment. Choose a...

As an author of my own ecological news blog, I've noticed readers lately complaining that the environment news we are covering is too scary. That we are using scare tactics to appeal to the readers. Alarmist or reactionary or just a sign of our times? To me, the news trend...

Soul-shifting is how I'd describe my two night stay at the Kasbah du Toubkal in the high Atlas mountains. From the gut-wrenching heat of Marrakesh, within an hour and a half we were transported to the mystical landscape of the Moroccan Berbers, and experienced what travel magazines call one...

It starts with water and ends with a Debka dance: Friends of the Earth Middle East, a trilateral Israel-Palestine-Jordan non-profit organization has launched an unbelievably hopeful project based on water in the West Bank village of Auja, about 10 minutes from the city of Jericho in the Jordan...

When the Better Place electric car network idea was launched, the green types were ecstatic. With switchable batteries to extend the range of driving an electric car, which can take normally hours to recharge, Better Place not only introduced a novel way of making electric cars work today, they also...

Her avatar is a blond bombshell. Not that my cousin isn't cute. But her avatar in Second Life is her fantasy self -- the one who is busty, blond, who can fly -- and more importantly perhaps, can walk. My cousin Michele Gardner can't use her legs like the majority...

A lot has changed since our parents were in the dating scene. They couldn't break up over an SMS, show how they swap spit on Facebook, or hook-up through the plethora of online dating sites available to us now. Some are paid sites like the popular JDate, Plenty...

Believed to have been started by arsonists, a deadly fire is racing out of control in UNESCO-protected Carmel Mountain. People, and animals, are being evacuated. Death toll is at 40.

Some 40 people trapped in a bus are known to have been killed and 45 more reportedly injured as...

Israel has got a lot of oil apparently. Possibly even more than Saudi Arabia. The problem is that it's locked up in rock-like shale, and extracting it for use is costly both per amount of oil yielded per barrel and the impact extraction has on the environment. Al...

The BP Gulf oil spill off the coast of Florida was a disaster for the environment, but a wake up call for humanity.

While governments, environmentalists, and oyster farmers blame BP, I think the consequences of the disaster should be shouldered by everyone who enjoys...

With the recent economic recession, the business world is unfortunately looking as grim as our planet's environmental condition. Business is waning, many people are unemployed, and the mad production rates of just a few years ago have slowed down drastically.

Yet just as environmentalists are looking for a way...

It's no secret that Israeli cleantech companies and their products are hot commodities. Now in: the Cleantech Group just announced their global list, the Global Cleantech 100 for the second year running, and it's no surprise that Israeli companies earned 8 of the 100 spots (I correct myself from...

Don't dump to the sea! This sign to protect oysters and fish, Apalachicola, Florida.

Two-thirds of the world is water -- home to mysterious and life-sustaining organisms. The world's oceans also serve as a carbon sink,...