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Security forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Yemen hit near a playground in Jaffa on December 21, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 24, 2024, 1:32 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 24: Day 445 – IDF rethinks ballistic missiles for long-range attacks
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses a gag order lifted in the PM’s office leak case; ecology reporter Sue Surkes talks about the Hula nature reserve and ecological sandals
By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes
Construction using concrete together with GreenVibe technology, October 2022 (courtesy GreenVibe)
November 25, 2022, 5:50 am
A concrete challenge: Tel Aviv tech startup uses sensors to ensure better building
GreenVibe says its hardware and software system can provide real-time insights about on-site construction material and offer data-driven predictions about quality and readiness
By Danielle Nagler
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June 15, 2022, 7:28 pm
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Illustrative: A city showing the effect of climate change. (BenGoode via iStock by Getty Images)
January 18, 2022, 3:24 pm
Israel worked magic in cybersecurity. Can it do the same for climate tech?
Experts say Israel is late to the game but can still become a key player, as an opportunity worth many trillions may help save the planet; government seen moving in right direction
By Shoshanna Solomon
Nostromo's Icebrick system for energy storage based on modular ice cells for commercial and industrial buildings. (Nostromo)
December 22, 2021, 6:09 am
Energy Ministry directs $6.3 million in grants for 16 energy storage prototypes
Among the selected projects: Solar-driven hydrogen production, ‘kosher’ batteries to power a yeshiva on the Sabbath, and ice bricks that store energy for cooling systems
By Sue Surkes
UBQ Materials CEO and co-founder Tato Bigio (Courtesy)
December 15, 2021, 7:14 pm
Cleantech firm nabs $170m to make eco-friendly plastic substitute from waste
UBQ develops thermoplastic materials converted from household trash to make products such as bins, trays and automotive parts
By Ricky Ben-David
View of the Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert, southern Israel, on August 21, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 21, 2021, 6:41 pm
Israel’s ‘vibrant’ climate tech sector shows promise amid challenges
New report maps landscape of companies tackling environmental issues, highlights obstacles like access to funding, ability to scale
By Ricky Ben-David
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July 27, 2021, 4:17 pm
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Catering to cleantech: how Israel is evolving into a sustainability pioneer
Israel is a nation that has a muddled relationship with sustainability, but emerging ‘cleantech’ and pioneering innovations may be set to put the record straight on the environment
An illustrative image of tanks transporting ammonia to farmer's fields in western Iowa (DarcyMaulsby; iStock by Getty Images)
February 23, 2021, 4:20 pm
Israel’s GenCell joins forces with Japan’s TDK to create ‘green’ ammonia
Israeli firm has patented a technique that uses surplus wind and solar energy and an electro-chemical process to create a gas that is normally a source of carbon dioxide emissions
By Shoshanna Solomon
In this photo taken May 19, 2011, a miner works at an illegal mining process in Delta Uno, Madre de Dios, Peru. Mercury released by the mining is slowly poisoning people, plants, animals and fish, scientific studies show (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
January 29, 2021, 9:46 am
Humans destroying basis of our existence, ‘ecological footprint’ expert warns
Canada’s Prof. William Rees tells Israeli confab we are extracting resources as if Earth were 73% bigger, deluding ourselves that economic growth, consumption, can go on
By Sue Surkes
A younger resident of Shahak Heights enjoying his bike. (Shira Malul/via Ayalim)
December 29, 2020, 11:10 am
For 21st century Zionist pioneers, it takes an off-the-grid eco-village
Green tech underpins first of several planned eco-communities in Negev cities, but organizers struggle to find secular families as idealistic as young religious ones
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of clothes, fashion, on hangers (Naypong; iStock by Getty Images)
November 4, 2020, 10:55 am
Eco-friendly hangers made by Israeli trash-redeemer UBQ to hit fashion industry
UBQ, which converts household scraps into a bio-based plastic substitute, joins forces with US Mainetti Group to make garment hangers for retail chains globally
By Shoshanna Solomon
In this September 19, 2019, photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks about US President Donald Trump's decision to revoke California's authority to set auto mileage standards stricter than those issued by federal regulators, at EPA headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
November 17, 2019, 3:36 pm
Controversial Trump environmental protection chief to address Tel Aviv meet
Andrew Wheeler, seen as a major player in rolling back environmental regulation in favor of business, invited to give keynote address at Tuesday’s WATEC water tech conference
By Sue Surkes
A cluster of bins made with the UBQ Material (Courtesy)
September 1, 2019, 12:09 pm
Central Virginians to put out their recycling in Israeli plastic-substitute bins
Waste management authority pilots a program using UBQ Materials’ technology, which takes a wide variety of household waste and turns it into a bio-based thermoplastic
By Shoshanna Solomon
Alcohol-free, sugar-free, O.Vine wine water created by using leftover grape skins and seeds by Wine Water Ltd. and Practical Innovation (Courtesy)
March 28, 2019, 3:23 pm
Waste-busting Israeli firm turns companies’ discards into new food and drink
Practical Innovation teaches food industry clients how to redirect their refuse into an innovative, profitable product
By Johanna Chisholm
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