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Topic: environmental technology

May 17, 2013
1:20 am

Tel Aviv school ‘superfood’ project aims to curb malnutrition

From the web Reuters: The potential of algae to feed the hungry is being turned into reality by teenage students

April 30, 2013
11:44 pm

Engineers build a new set of water system pipes in Netanya (Photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israeli water management tech wins top award

WhiteWater Technology wins plaudits from clean energy analyst company

April 29, 2013
4:59 am

Shani Keysar (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli startup powers the sensors that power agriculture

Sensor-based innovations are helping farmers grow more food, and Sol-Chip’s technology is helping them do it more efficiently

By David Shamah

April 21, 2013
3:43 pm

A Lite-Trac four-wheeled self-propelled crop sprayer spraying pesticide on a field

Israeli tech seeks to undo the damage of pesticides

Without agricultural chemicals, there would be a lot less food in the world, but with them, water and soil are slowly getting poisoned. A start-up says it has the solution

By David Shamah

April 12, 2013
2:03 pm

One of Grow Fish Anywhere's facilities in Israel (photo credit: Courtesy)

The top 65 ways Israel is saving our planet

From the web Israel21c: To celebrate Israel’s 65th birthday, here are some of the country’s most important environmental achievements

March 21, 2013
10:59 am

University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer (L) and Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi sign the MOU on water research at a March 8 signing ceremony in Chicago (Photo credit: Courtesy BGU)

Making water better, molecule by molecule

Israel’s BGU will collaborate with UChicago to solve the world’s water problems using nanotechnology

By David Shamah

February 22, 2013
5:00 pm

A road in northern Israel being paved with DSI's RuBind (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Safer and greener: Israel’s high-tech highways

Asphalt that uses recycled tires makes roads easier to brake on and helps the environment, says Dimona Silica Industries

February 17, 2013
8:20 am

View of the Eshkol Water Filtration Plant in Northern Israel (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israeli water tech draws new European investment

Atlantium Technologies is the first cleantech firm in Israel to receive funding from Europe’s Aster Capital group

By David Shamah

February 7, 2013
1:42 pm

Benny Shimon (left) and Amir Zaid show off the Muve (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Segway’s out; Israel’s Muve a new way to move around

Car designer-inventor meets 3D software company to produce a cleantech ‘backpack on wheels’ that eases congestion

By David Shamah

January 31, 2013
7:53 am

Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau speaks at the Cleantech Business Forum (Photo credit: Courtesy)

The (successful) politics of West Bank water

Israel and the PA have been quietly cooperating to ensure a safe, clean, and water-ful environment west of the Jordan River

By David Shamah

December 2, 2012
11:19 pm

At the opening of the new National Technology and Renewable Energy Center in at Kibbutz Yotvata. Pictured left to right: Avi Feldman, CEO Capital Nature; Dr Uzi Landau, Minister of Energy and Water; Shalom Simhon, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor; Dr. Stuart Wenham, Suntech’s Chief Technology Officer (Photo credit: Courtesy)

The great solar tech laboratory that is the Negev

Deserts are a great place to set up large solar arrays for electrical production – but is the equipment up to the task? A new evaluation center in Israel’s south may provide some answers

By David Shamah

November 30, 2012
3:42 pm

View of Haifa under heavy smog (Photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Satellites used to track global smog level

From the web UPI: Israeli researchers are using NASA ‘eyes in the sky’ to more accurately measure air pollution

November 29, 2012
8:27 am

Abramowitz (left) and youthful residents of the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village hold a solar panel (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel’s solar ‘revolutionaries’ aim to bring light — and peace — to Africa

Entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz wants to bring more power to a billion people in the developing world — with all its attendant benefits

By David Shamah

November 26, 2012
11:42 pm

A power station in Haifa bay (Photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash 90)

Undersea gas leaks discovered off Israel’s northern coast

From the web MSNBC: The Mediterranean is ‘venting’ natural gas, and the marine environment off Israel’s coast may be at risk

November 26, 2012
12:59 pm

A view of a portion of Israel’s largest solar field, the 4.95MW Ketura Sun project at Kibbutz Ketura in the Negev (Photo credit: Courtesy Suntech)

Israel’s alternative energy ‘brain trust’ to show off latest technologies

The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference will feature innovative Israeli-developed renewable energy ideas — and show policymakers why solar and other alternative energies are still better than natural gas

By David Shamah

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