Green Options » israel http://greenoptions.com/tag/israel Posts tagged 'israel' Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:24:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport Plans 50-Kilowatt Solar Project http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/07/israels-ben-gurion-airport-plans-50-kilowatt-solar-project/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/07/israels-ben-gurion-airport-plans-50-kilowatt-solar-project/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:24:57 +0000 Yael Borofsky http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/07/israels-ben-gurion-airport-plans-50-kilowatt-solar-project/ Flying into Israel’s soon-to-be solar powered Ben Gurion Airport may feel like arriving in the “promised land” for more than just those with vested religious interests. Located just outside Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem, the airport has made plans to install 50 kilowatts of solar energy in order to cleanly power the country’s largest international portal.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/07/israels-ben-gurion-airport-plans-50-kilowatt-solar-project/feed/ ROTEC’s Reverse Osmosis System Desalinates Brackish Groundwater http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/28/rotecs-reverse-osmosis-system-desalinates-brackish-groundwater/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/28/rotecs-reverse-osmosis-system-desalinates-brackish-groundwater/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:42:45 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/28/rotecs-reverse-osmosis-system-desalinates-brackish-groundwater/ IBM has introduced a new set of products and services designed to support smarter water use.Traditionally, if you are in a water-poor region that has access to desalination technology and seawater, you were in luck. Israeli cleantechnology company ROTEC has developed a reverse osmosis system designed to remove salts from brackish groundwater. In other words, nowhere near the sea.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/28/rotecs-reverse-osmosis-system-desalinates-brackish-groundwater/feed/ Israel and Jordan to Partner with NATO on Inland Water Desalination Plants http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/28/israel-and-jordan-to-partner-with-nato-on-inland-water-desalination-plants/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/28/israel-and-jordan-to-partner-with-nato-on-inland-water-desalination-plants/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:47:45 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/28/israel-and-jordan-to-partner-with-nato-on-inland-water-desalination-plants/ NATO’s Science for Peace program and the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) have awarded a team of three universities, one Jordanian, one Israeli and one American a grant to set up two parallel water desalination plants at one site each in Jordan and Israel. This grant is meant to promote collaboration across borders and between the two neighbouring countries, in a region not known for its congenial ties between neighbours.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/28/israel-and-jordan-to-partner-with-nato-on-inland-water-desalination-plants/feed/ Gay Vultures Split Up, Then Start New Families http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/21/gay-vultures-split-up-then-start-new-families/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/21/gay-vultures-split-up-then-start-new-families/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:01:22 +0000 Rhishja Larson http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/21/gay-vultures-split-up-then-start-new-families/ Griffon vulture image for article about gay vultures at Jerusalem Zoo who started new families

A pair of male vultures at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo who successfully reared two chicks together have split up and started new families with female vultures.

Ten years ago, two male Griffon vultures met and fell in love. They built a nest - as vultures do - but couldn’t produce an egg.

The situation prompted Israeli zoololgist Shmuel Yidov try an experiment: A newly-hatched vulture chick was carefully placed inside a swan’s egg shell and slipped into Dashik and Yehuda’s nest.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/21/gay-vultures-split-up-then-start-new-families/feed/ New Biogel Fights Heart Disease Developed from Common Brown Seaweed http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/08/new-biogel-fights-heart-disease-developed-from-common-brown-seaweed/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/08/new-biogel-fights-heart-disease-developed-from-common-brown-seaweed/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:41:49 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/08/new-biogel-fights-heart-disease-developed-from-common-brown-seaweed/ Yet another reason for protecting the seas and the biodiversity that exists (including nuisance species): scientists at Ben Gurion University in Israel have developed a biogel that helps fight heart disease. The source of this gel? Seaweed.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/08/new-biogel-fights-heart-disease-developed-from-common-brown-seaweed/feed/ Israeli Company Atlantium Develops Pathogen Water Purification System Without Chemicals http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/01/israeli-company-atlantium-develops-pathogen-water-purification-system-without-chemicals/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/01/israeli-company-atlantium-develops-pathogen-water-purification-system-without-chemicals/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:25:41 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/01/israeli-company-atlantium-develops-pathogen-water-purification-system-without-chemicals/

Have you noticed how all sorts of high end resorts and hotels have started converting their chlorine pools to salt water? And it’s not just the health and hospitality industry that wants to figure out a way to purify their water without resorting to chemicals. Other industries, including the food and beverage, dairy, aquaculture and municipal drinking water providers need to ensure that the water they use contain no micro-organisms or pathogens of any kind. A company based in Israel, Atlantium has developed what may be one of the first industrial-grade solutions to water micro-organism purification without chemicals.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/01/israeli-company-atlantium-develops-pathogen-water-purification-system-without-chemicals/feed/ Israel Self-Sufficient from Natural Gas Discovery? http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/27/israel-self-sufficient-from-natural-gas-discovery/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/27/israel-self-sufficient-from-natural-gas-discovery/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:15:09 +0000 Jake Richardson http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/27/israel-self-sufficient-from-natural-gas-discovery/ haifa

Israel National News reported in early July that reserves of natural gas discovered near Haifa are larger than initially estimated, and could be enough to make the whole country energy self-sufficient for two decades.

CEO of Delek Energy, Yitzchak Tshuva, “Israel today is independent – completely independent with blue and white [Israeli-made] energy.”

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/27/israel-self-sufficient-from-natural-gas-discovery/feed/ Giraffe in Israel Sets World Record with 11th Baby http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/17/giraffe-in-israel-sets-world-record-with-11th-baby/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/17/giraffe-in-israel-sets-world-record-with-11th-baby/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:14:18 +0000 Levi Novey http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/17/giraffe-in-israel-sets-world-record-with-11th-baby/ A Giraffe

Here’s some lighthearted news to bring a smile to your face. A nearly 20 year old giraffe at the zoo known as Israeli Safari has given birth to her 11th baby, setting a world record. She is formally known as Denissa, but more humorously known as “super-mum.”

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/07/17/giraffe-in-israel-sets-world-record-with-11th-baby/feed/ Water, Israel and the Palestinian Authority: the Next Explosion? http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/06/04/water-israel-and-the-palestinian-authority-the-next-explosion/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/06/04/water-israel-and-the-palestinian-authority-the-next-explosion/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:51:12 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/06/04/water-israel-and-the-palestinian-authority-the-next-explosion/ droplet of waterAmerican President Obama’s outreach to the Middle East and the Arab world at large could not have come at a better point. As tensions ratchet over Iran and its pursuit of nuclear weapons and the ever-simmering conflict between Israel and Hamas, the World Bank recently released a report criticizing the water-sharing regime between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. While the report’s release is not a bombshell, it does serve to highlight how conflicts and competition over natural resources will only contribute to regional tensions.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/06/04/water-israel-and-the-palestinian-authority-the-next-explosion/feed/ Jordan to Build Canal Connecting the Dead Sea with the Red Sea http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/20/jordan-to-build-canal-connecting-the-dead-sea-with-the-red-sea/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/20/jordan-to-build-canal-connecting-the-dead-sea-with-the-red-sea/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 03:29:56 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/20/jordan-to-build-canal-connecting-the-dead-sea-with-the-red-sea/ In a region known for its deserts, water shortages and tension among neighbours, Jordan announced plans to build an eye-popping $10 billion desalination plant that would provide fresh water for the parched Jordanian population, as well as help replenish the shrinking Dead Sea. Due to up-stream irrigation removal and drinking water consumption from the Jordan River, the Dead Sea has seen its water levels drop by about a metre a year, and at current rates the Dead Sea will have disappeared in the next 50 odd years.

Tourist losses from people not being able to float in the Dead Sea notwithstanding, the Dead Sea forms an important link with humanity’s past, is a significant land form, as well as hosting a unique ecosystem. Saving the Dead Sea has therefore become an important regional initiative. Unfortunately, talks between Israel and Jordan to construct a “Red-Dead” canal linking the Dead Sea with the Red Sea have been fitful. The Red-Dead Canal has also not been without controversy, as environmental groups have raised concern with the dangers inherent to the Dead Sea’s coral life, its unique ecosystem, as well as potentially reducing the buoyancy of its water (to the consternation of multiple nearby resort operators).

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/05/20/jordan-to-build-canal-connecting-the-dead-sea-with-the-red-sea/feed/ New Solar Power Farm in Israel Will ‘Help Fight Terror’ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/03/new-solar-power-farm-in-israel-will-help-fight-terror/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/03/new-solar-power-farm-in-israel-will-help-fight-terror/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 17:54:46 +0000 Jake Richardson http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/03/new-solar-power-farm-in-israel-will-help-fight-terror/ solar powerShimon Peres, the President of Israel helped launch a new solar farm at Kibbutz Yavne this week. The farm uses concentrating solar power to generate electricity and hot water. President Peres said at the launching ceremony, “It is a natural way to fight terror because the oil-producing countries of Iran and Venezuela destroy our lives by terror.” He also called solar power democratic because sunlight is available to everyone.

No government aid was required for the project. It was funded entirely by Israeli venture capitalists. The cost of the electricity generated is approximately 8 cents per kilowatt hour. This price is slightly less than the cost for electricity provided by the main power supplier in Israel, the Israeli Electric Corporation.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/05/03/new-solar-power-farm-in-israel-will-help-fight-terror/feed/ Japanese Sea Coral Can Change Sex in Order to Survive Global Warming http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/20/japanese-sea-coral-can-change-sex-in-order-to-survive-global-warming/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/20/japanese-sea-coral-can-change-sex-in-order-to-survive-global-warming/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:30:53 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/20/japanese-sea-coral-can-change-sex-in-order-to-survive-global-warming/ spectacularly irredescent Pillar Corals_NOAA

Researchers in Israel have discovered that Japanese sea corals engage in sex switching. Similar to species of trees and more famously, most species of reef fish, female Japanese sea corals (scientifically known as fungiid coral) switch their sex so that the majority are male. This seems to be due to male fungiid coral’s better ability to handle the stresses brought on by resource scarcity.

Since over a quarter of the world’s coral reefs have already become damaged due to increasing sea temperatures, understanding how fungiids are able to become primarily male may provide researchers with alternative reproduction strategies. 

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/20/japanese-sea-coral-can-change-sex-in-order-to-survive-global-warming/feed/ A Solar Community in Israel http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/24/a-solar-community-in-israel/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/24/a-solar-community-in-israel/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:17:08 +0000 Rob Yunich http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/24/a-solar-community-in-israel/ Most likely, the world’s first solar community will be housed in one of the most politically-driven regions of the world.

Kibbutz Reim, located in the western portion of Israel’s Negev desert, will soon rely entirely on energy derived from the sun for domestic consumption. According to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth’s YNet site, solar panels will be placed on the roofs of all 130 house in the community and produce electricity for the community. Excess energy will be sold to the Israel Electric Company.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/24/a-solar-community-in-israel/feed/ Natural Gas Reserve Found off the Coast of Israel in the Mediterranean; Lebanon Claims Part http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/23/natural-gas-reserve-found-off-the-coast-of-israel-in-the-mediterranean-lebanon-claims-part/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/23/natural-gas-reserve-found-off-the-coast-of-israel-in-the-mediterranean-lebanon-claims-part/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:15:09 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/23/natural-gas-reserve-found-off-the-coast-of-israel-in-the-mediterranean-lebanon-claims-part/ Lebanon has warned Noble Energy, the natural gas company that recently discovered 3 trillion cubic foot “Tamar 1″ (a natural gas reserve in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Israel), that working for the “Israeli enemy” will have repercussions. In a region that is already fraught with tensions over religion, ethnicity, water and power, natural gas is a combustible addition to the mix.

Lebanon and Israel have fought several wars in the past, and 2006 saw the breakout of further hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia. This, coupled with the lack of a maritime delimitation agreement between Israel and Lebanon means that the northern end of this gas reserve will almost undoubtedly become a source of further tension between these two neighbours.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/23/natural-gas-reserve-found-off-the-coast-of-israel-in-the-mediterranean-lebanon-claims-part/feed/ Israeli Company Uses Olive Waste for Alternative Energy Source http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/07/company-in-israel-uses-waste-from-olives-for-alternative-energy-source/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/07/company-in-israel-uses-waste-from-olives-for-alternative-energy-source/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:54:16 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/07/company-in-israel-uses-waste-from-olives-for-alternative-energy-source/ Olive branches have traditionally been used as a symbol of peace, but as a symbol of renewable energy? Olivebar, a company based in Israel, is using olive press waste to create a long-term, renewable energy source.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/07/company-in-israel-uses-waste-from-olives-for-alternative-energy-source/feed/ Piezoelectric Road Produces Electricity From Traffic http://gas2.org/2009/01/05/piezoelectric-road-produces-electricity-from-traffic/ http://gas2.org/2009/01/05/piezoelectric-road-produces-electricity-from-traffic/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:59:04 +0000 Andrew Williams http://gas2.org/2009/01/05/piezoelectric-road-produces-electricity-from-traffic/

Engineers have created a new type of road capable of turning the vibration caused by cars into electricity.

The revolutionary new surface, created by engineers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, uses piezoelectric crystals embedded in the asphalt to generate up to 400 kilowatts of energy from a 1 kilometer stretch, enough to run eight electric cars.

Commenting on the innovation, a spokesman from the UK Environmental Transport Association said, “Many predict a massive shift to electric cars, and it may be the roads themselves that help provide some of the power needed.”

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/01/05/piezoelectric-road-produces-electricity-from-traffic/feed/ Israel’s Innowattech Conceives Energy-Generating Roads http://ecoscraps.com/2008/12/23/israels-innowattech-conceives-energy-generating-roads/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/12/23/israels-innowattech-conceives-energy-generating-roads/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:04:22 +0000 Adam Williams http://ecoscraps.com/2008/12/23/israels-innowattech-conceives-energy-generating-roads/

Innowattech, a green energy technology company in Israel, is developing energy-generators for three main transportation methods: railroads, roads, and airport runways. The concept uses piezoelectric generators — Innowattech’s specialty — to transform kinetic energy from passing planes, trains and automobiles into electricity. From Innowattech:

The system,based on a new breed of piezoelectric generators, harvests energy that ordinarily goes to waste and can be installed without changing the habitat.

Sources: Inhabitat.com and Innowattech

]]> http://ecoscraps.com/2008/12/23/israels-innowattech-conceives-energy-generating-roads/feed/ Israeli Company Testing Piezoelectric Road http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/17/israeli-company-testing-piezoelectric-road/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/17/israeli-company-testing-piezoelectric-road/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:49:58 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/17/israeli-company-testing-piezoelectric-road/ road

More news from the piezoelectrics front: engineers from Innowattech are planning to test a network of Piezo Electric Generators (IPEG) on a 100 meter stretch of road. As with other piezoelectric devices, the IPEGs embedded in the road will turn mechanical strain into an electrical current or voltage. The IPEGs can generate energy from weight, motion, vibration, and temperature changes.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/17/israeli-company-testing-piezoelectric-road/feed/ Solar Energy Used to Heat Gaza Strip Ovens http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/16/solar-energy-used-to-heat-gaza-strip-ovens/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/16/solar-energy-used-to-heat-gaza-strip-ovens/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:23:02 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/16/solar-energy-used-to-heat-gaza-strip-ovens/ They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. In the Gaza Strip, due to the restrictions placed by Israel, one Gazan engineer has developed a solar oven that uses the abundant supply of sunlight to cook food.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/16/solar-energy-used-to-heat-gaza-strip-ovens/feed/ A Solar-Powered Pissing Contest - Who Wins? http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/10/a-solar-powered-pissing-contest-who-wins/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/10/a-solar-powered-pissing-contest-who-wins/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:55:09 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/10/a-solar-powered-pissing-contest-who-wins/ Maybe it’s just me. But it seems like you can’t crack open a clean tech blog these days without uncovering a post on The World’s Most Super Duperest Solar Project Ever. In the last month alone we’ve seen everyone from China to Los Angeles rolling out big budget solar plans.

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