By analyzing the rate of photosynthesis in algae, the researchers can discover whether the plant realizes its full photosynthesis potential. Israeli researchers have developed an effective method for locating and measuring contamination in water by ‘listening’ to the sound that …

Here’s a Friday morning outing you’ve probably never considered: A trip to the dump. But not just any dump. The Hiria dump – an 80-meter high blight on the landscape, which no commuter traveling on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway could …

When your mother or grandmother tells you to eat your carrots, they probably have a good reason. According to the new Israeli beauty products company, Yes To Carrots, the average person eats almost 11,000 carrots in their lifetime. “We thought …

“It’s a plug and play solution,” Avi Pauncz, CEO of Aqua Digital. Clean technology is the latest buzzword in Israel. For decades Israelis have been developing low, mid and high-tech solutions to battle the country’s water shortage and drought. Today, …

TIME Magazine voted him one of the 100 most influential people of 2008. Now Israeli Isaac Berzin has returned to Israel from the US to set up a new biofuel powerhouse in Israel.   While Israel has some of the …

Plantware aims to use living trees to create a variety of useful structures like this playground for children. America’s Axel Erlandson envisioned sustainable urban design in the 1920s and by the 1940s had opened his very own Tree Circus. The …

Dr. Daniel Farb (right) meets San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom in Israel recently. In Hebrew the word leviathan roughly translates to a “whale” – and describes the great sea creature that carried the prophet Jonas in its gut for three …

AqWise is part of the Israel Cleantech Ventures portfolio. The company uses bacteria and a plastic bead aeration system to treat municipal sewage. With gasoline prices that could skyrocket to $7 a gallon within four years, and the threat of …

It’s the kind of stuff that could inspire Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” – Israel’s Yoav Kotik is finding treasures in discarded objects, by fashioning trash into flower gardens, jewelry, lamps and objects of art.   The 50-year-old industrial designer is now …

Newton’s clean hybrid engine uses parts from two traditional engines on the market today. Since the industrial revolution, humanity has struggled to find ways to make the machine more efficient and productive. Engines drive our cars, wash our clothes and …