Genova’s technology employs a novel technique for maintaining the high temperatures needed for the process, thus increasing its efficiency and maximizing the energy produced. After you’ve enjoyed a tangy olive, don’t throw away the pit – it could soon be …

‘From taking care of the air to the water, ecology is very important to this company’ – Makteshim’s Yaffa Cohen-Ifrah. From corn to soybeans and canola, the Israeli company Makhteshim-Agan Industries is helping North Americans keep their crops safe. Makhteshim-Agan …

‘Our polymer will degrade 100% in two months,’ claims Exotech CEO Arie Axlerad. When Arie Axlerad wants to make a point, he takes a spoonful of the super absorbent polymer developed by his company, Exotech Bio Solutions, and eats it. …

Give Israelis and Arabs a chance to cooperate on the environment and learn about each other. Inspired by Martin Luther King’s 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, Curtis Mayfield wrote his highly acclaimed song “People Get Ready.” It is a …

Over the next 5 years, Blueprint Negev will bring 250,000 residents to the region. In response to the piece posted last month by Avrum Ehrlich, ‘Now Can We Make the Negev Bloom?’, I would like to bring to your attention …

Noted pomegranate researcher Dr. Ephraim Lansky in his natural habitat. (Photo: Debbie Zimelman) A renovated tailor’s workshop in the old Turkish market in Haifa is an unlikely setting for the hub of a research company. But it’s here that the …

The Weizmann Institute’s Canadian Institute for the Energies and Applied Research, one of the most sophisticated solar research facilities in the world, which has a solar tower, a field of 64 mirrors and unique beam-down optics. Hydrogen, the most plentiful …

Why not imagine what Gush Katif’s farmers could do for the Negev? Israel’s disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria will have a greater impact on the future of the country than anyone anticipates. Ideologies have developed and imploded in a …

We can make a global impact with Israel’s clean water technologies. Progress for Israel’s water technology toolkit is a strategic requirement. Providing environmentally sound, efficient means to maintain and develop sources of clean water is among the greatest challenges facing …

Producing red algae – the Algatech facility at Kibbutz Ketura is now the world’s leading supplier of natural astaxanthin for human consumption. When you imagine an algae or fish farm, a desert is probably not the first image that pops …