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• WZO to boost environmental practices (Jerusalem Post)
• Fire-ravaged Golan nature reserve 'will take years to recover' (Haaretz)
• Environmental offenses are crimes against humanity (Jerusalem Post)
• 'Red-Dead project pumping site not selected yet' (Jordan Times)
• Variety is the spice of (city) life (Jerusalem Post)
• Israeli-developed boiled potato batteries may provide cheap power (Haaretz)
• Our World: Warming to worms (Jerusalem Post)
• Going to bat for nature (Haaretz)
• Li Ka-shing may tap Israel for oil-sands technology (Jerusalem)
• Eden halts mineral water bottling over microbe contamination (Haaretz)
• It’s all about electrons – and energy (Jerusalem Post)
• Israeli-developed Eco-Pack offers green alternative (Jerusalem Post)
• Experts say Red-Dead concerns can be addressed (Jordan Times)
• Protesters disrupt energy summit over gas plant (Jerusalem Post)
• Police suspect arson behind six bushfires in north (Haaretz)
• Israel’s rivers: Back from the dead (Jerusalem Post)
• Israeli panel leans toward raising state's bite of gas, oil revenues (Haaretz)
• Katz unveils ‘transportation revolution' (Jerusalem Post)
• The magic mountain (Haaretz)
• Leviathan gas find spurts optimism (Jerusalem Post)
• Report: Israelis recycle only 18 percent of household garbage (Haaretz)
• ‘Young engineers’ compete in environmental projects (Jerusalem Post)
• How long will Tel Avivians wait for the light rail? (Haaretz)
• Jordan River 'to run dry next year' (Al Jazeera)
• The denuding of Lachish (Haaretz)
• TA mayor to install 50 electric vehicle charging stations from US firm (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Top economist: Bio-fuels may lead to land shortages (Jerusalem Post)
• Street cats are paying the price of saving the birds (Haaretz)
• Israel helps African farmers fight desert (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Slow train to the subway (Haaretz)
• Parting the Waters (National Geographic)
• Jordan River to run dry by next year (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel planning new West Bank train network, minister says (Haaretz)
• Poll: 98% of Israelis concerned about environment (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• We've been very wasteful (Haaretz)
• Get out of the car (Jerusalem Post)
• Activists slam conference for including Israelis (Jordan Times)
• JNF sheds light on solar deal (Haaretz)
• Weekly organic farmer’s market to begin this Friday at Tel Aviv’s historic Turkish train station (Green Prophet)
• State wants herders to police grazing lands against illegal builders (Haaretz)
• Bank Hapoalim presents an exhibition of 22 futuristic green houses and 2 green mortgages (Green Prophet)
• 10 reasons Israel is a cleantech leader (Cleantech Group LLC)
• Civilizations, ancient and present, depend on water (Green Prophet)
• Experts baffled by disappearance of Kishon source (Haaretz)
• Packaging bill gets coalition backing (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel plans wind-powered lighting for Coastal Highway, takes initial step to buttress shoreline cliffs (Green Prophet)
• Ashtrays invite themselves to the beach (Jerusalem Post)
• Ministry evaluating potential master developers for Jordan Red Sea Project (Jordan Times)
• Good news for the bleak (a fish): The Yarkon is cleaning up (Haaretz)
• Bonfires and air pollution – a tale of competing values (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel’s Air Force plans solar installations at all its bases (Green Prophet)
• The diet of worms / Keep it real, greenies (Haaretz)
• And the Green Globe goes to...  (Jerusalem Post)
• Zvi Tavor: Why do Israelis still not know how to use solar energy effectively? (Haaretz)
• Could water ignite the next war?  (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel celebrates Earth Day today with an Earth Hour sweeping across 14 cities (Green Prophet)
• Study: The Environmental Protection Ministry lacks necessary authority and professional training (Haaretz)
• Greenpeace Mediterranean demands that Nestle-Osem give the orangutans and rainforests a break (Green Prophet)
• PM aims to reverse Kinneret fish decline (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Israel Defense Ministry stalls on sewage treatment (Green Prophet)
• Erdan: Gov't building plans violate balance between development and conservation (Haaretz)
• Holyland and Israel’s commons, the government’s song (Green Prophet)
• Polluted beaches result of insufficient state funding (Jerusalem Post)
• A genetically engineered lab-rat spares animal suffering (Green Prophet)
• A match made in water (Israel 21c)
• Israel bars fishing in Sea of Galilee (Green Prophet)
• Mysterious lines on the deserts of the Near East are massive ancient hunting tools, made up of low stone walls (Discovery News)
• A refuge for prophets, people and wildlife (Israel 21c)
• Israeli solar water heaters heading to North America (Green Prophet)
• Hamas … and sanitation (Asharq Alawsat)
• Cabinet set to ban fishing in Kinneret for 2 years (Jerusalem Post)
• Saudis to build nuclear, renewable energy centre (Agence France Presse, via Asharq Alawsat)
• Cut the rhetoric: Don’t hold water hostage to the Middle East conflict (Friends of the Earth Middle East)
• Israel’s grid will never handle renewable energy goals (Green Prophet)
• As season opens: Cleaner beaches, but blight getting worse (Haaretz)
• 'Occupation’ semantics thwart pan-Mediterranean water deal (Jerusalem Post)
• Holyland’s unnatural “Monster on the Mountain” built with bribes (Green Prophet)
• Despite Passover litter, Kinneret to stay open for Independence Day (Haaretz)
• Water conference ends in failure due to Israel-Arab row (Jordan Times)
• Quality of water at Israel's beaches improving, group reports (Haartez)
• Landau: 'Palestinians do not adequately treat their sewage' (Jerusalem Post)
• More work, less play for Israel's endangered dolphins (Israel 21c)
• Hiriya: A vision of green (Jerusalem Post)
• Tamar natural gas to power Better Place cars (Green Prophet)
• Israeli scientists helping Egypt save Nile fish (Jerusalem Post)
• Tel Aviv University launches 'Meatfree Monday' (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Israel praised as world leader in water treatment (Haaretz)
• ‘Public would spend NIS 415m. on dirty streams’ (Jerusalem Post)
• 'No guiding hand directs water sector'  (Jerusalem Post)
• C'tee urges changes to water economy  (Jerusalem Post)
• Bill would make local councils responsible for building waste (Haaretz)
• Landau to present low water stats  (Jerusalem Post)
• A recycling revolution? (Haaretz)
• Forum puts energy efficiency on the map (Jerusalem Post)
• Next Year in the White House: A seder tradition (New York Times)
• Kinneret reaches lowest red line (Jerusalem Post)
• Enjoy ecological activies in Israel during Passover (Green Prophet)
• 'More water for nature, conservation for residents' (Jerusalem Post)
• As world marks day for H2O, report claims Israel's water is getting cleaner and people consuming less (Haaretz)
• Landau: Invest in alternative energy to fight radical Islam (Jerusalem Post)
• The best way to keep buildings green is not to build new ones (Green Prophet)
• SPNI objects to proposed Negev community of Nitzanit (Jerusalem Post)
• Reflecting on Israel’s water usage and reviewing water saving tips before International Water Day (Green Prophet)
• Bar-Ilan researcher Zvi Dubinsky has been awarded a $4 million EU grant to try and combat the devastating effects of global warming on the world’s coral reefs (Jerusalem Post)
• Ministries to warn of radiation from fluorescent bulbs (Haaretz)
• 500,000 people not hooked up to central sewerage network (Jerusalem Post)
• How clear is our water? (Jerusalem Post)
• Haifa pollution study stalls after factories renege (Haaretz)
• Aquate to provide solutions to water, energy, food (Jerusalem Post)
• Can Israel’s wind power sector compete with solar? (Green Prophet)
• Want info about pollution near your home? Tough luck (Jerusalem Post)
• Make some creative, reused, green noise this Purim (Green Prophet)
• Cold peace may keep proposed Egyptian-Israeli solar project on ice (Green Prophet)
• Will solar fields cover Israel’s last open spaces? (Green Prophet)
• Amman, Paris ink uranium mining deal (Jordan Times)
• Ben-Eliezer touts massive solar project with Egypt (Jerusalem Post)
• PWA obtains Israeli approval for suspended water projects (Ma'an News Agency)
• Cabinet convening special session to vote on shrunken NIS 28 billion choo-choo plan (Haaretz)
• Steinitz shreds railways plan (Haaretz)
• Pesticides to blame for wave of Parkinson's in Israeli Arab town (Haaretz)
• Israel creates anti-fur import and trade bill, shtreimels excluded (Green Prophet)
• Landau: Way open for vision of green houses (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel offers Egypt to build solar power stations in Sinai  (Haaretz)
• Energy efficiency — silent gun in clean-technology arsenal (Jerusalem Post)
• EU gives $4 million grant to Mediterranean and Red Sea coral reef studies (Green Prophet)
• Upbeat mood at carbon-neutral Eilat energy event as AORA Solar leaves stealth mode (Green Prophet)
• Farmers worried 'crazy winter' will ruin crops (Haaretz)
• Environment Ministry vows to get tough on ‘green’ crime (Jerusalem Post)
• Environmental protection chief: State is Israel's biggest polluter (Haaretz)
• Environment Ministry eyes drastic changes in Israeli recycling  (Haaretz)
• Druze minister: Syria supplies water to Golan villages (Haaretz)
• Poll: Only 25% of haredim aware of green construction (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Israel basks in longest winter heat wave in almost 40 years (Haaretz)
• Sunray Solar and Sun Power combine in $277 million deal (Green Prophet)
• The less rosy aspects of Shai Agassi's electric car (Haaretz)
• Better Place’s electric vehicles land in Israel (Jerusalem Post)
• Finance Ministry wants to derail prime minister's transport development plan (Haaretz)
• Israel on schedule to inaugurate electric car grid (Associated Press, via Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• PM to decree on huge roads, trains plan (Haaretz)
• Haifa University reduced electricity consumption by 22% in 2008-09 (Green Prophet)
• Experts urge governments to revise water policies (IRIN)
• Save, don't desalinate (Haaretz)
• Keeping Kosher: Now What? (Sh'ma)
• 15 new solar fields will produce 100MW of power (Jerusalem Post)
• Clogged pipes sending Ormat revenues down the drain (Haaretz)
• Oil Refineries in $900M financing plan (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• ICL to boost sales by making coal-fueled plants friendlier (Haaretz)
• Egypt-Israel gas deal implemented (Jerusalem Post)
• Windmills, solar panels compete for green dominance of Golan (Haaretz)
• Canada strikes natural gas worth $6 billion off Israel’s coast (Green Prophet)
• Israel gearing up to inaugurate electric car grid by next year (Associated Press, via Haaretz)
• Jerusalem hilltop with deer herd under threat of development (Jerusalem Post)
• Israeli-American electric car company gets $350 million cash infusion (Associated Press, via Haaretz)
• Israel’s 'living building' in Jerusalem grows with the seasons (Green Prophet)
• JNF: 240 million trees planted since 1901 (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Ministry to offer guidance to help companies be greener (Haaretz)
• Knesset marks 30 years of birdwatching (Jerusalem Post)
• Better Place electric car gets investment fuel of $350 million led by HSBC (Green Prophet)
• Water Authority employees return to work today (Jerusalem Post)
• Organic garden at Neveh Amit retirement home keeps centenarians and the environment healthy (Green Prophet)
• Cabinet decision to recycle construction waste largely ignored (Haaretz)
• Not your garden-variety retirement home (Jerusalem Post)
• Sea of Galilee water levels rise nearly a meter in two months (Haaretz)
• The states of Israel and Texas have much to share when it comes to alternative energy sources such as solar and hydro power (Israel 21c)
• 'The electric car revolution starts in Israel' (Haaretz)
• Can an ecological peace park catalyze peace between Syria and Israel? (Green Prophet)
• Tel Aviv approves plan for bike-rental system (Haaretz)
• Israel’s Eilat region could be Middle East’s clean-tech beta site (Green Prophet)
• Shame pesticide offenders, MKs urged (Haaretz)
• Red-Dead stakeholders meet with donors to review studies (Jordan Times)
• Israel's first 'living' building inaugurated (Haaretz)
• Tel Aviv-Jerusalem rapid train route finally approved (Jerusalem Post, via Google)
• Cement and asphalt are covering Israel's open spaces, new report warns (Haaretz)
• Israel to calculate cost of contamination (Edie Newsroom)
• Asphalt and real estate reform (Haaretz)
• 'Streams in the North haven't flowed like this for the last seven years' (Jerusalem Post, via Google)
• Historical roots  (Jerusalem Post)
• Is Israel coming out of the nuclear closet by planning nuclear power station? (Green Prophet)
• Beach protection panel reprieved, other demands nixed (Haaretz)
• Jordan, Spain ink nuclear cooperation deal (SABA Yemen News Agency)
• Sunday Solar to build large solar array on 'damaged' Negev land (Green Prophet)
• New immigrant looks to make rainwater harvesting popular (Jerusalem Post, via Google)
• Eltel Networks smart meters a good example for Middle East countries to follow (Green Prophet)
• PowerSines to float abroad in first half (Haaretz)
• Water and energy nexus (Jordan Times)
• SDL to build one of largest desalination plants in the world (Jerusalem Post, via Google)
• Sinkholes threaten livelihoods on Dead Sea shore (Jordan Times)
• Showdown over electricity prices (Jerusalem Post)
• Electric Corp wants public to pay more for infrastructure (Haaretz)
• Red-Dead project steering committee to meet this month (Jordan Times)
• Fishing in Lake Kinneret banned for two years to avoid 'ecological disaster' (Haaretz)
• Geologist suing Beny Steinmetz for share of Tamar gas profit (Haaretz)
• Chabad hears the siren call too: Chaim Lebovits bids for drilling license off Palmahim coast (Haaretz)
• Dankner gets into the oil exploration business (Haaretz)
• Newly found Arava spider — largest in the region — may be on its last legs (Jerusalem Post)
• New spider found in giant sand dune in Israel (National Geographic)
• Israeli minister heads to Abu Dhabi renewable-energy IRENA meet (Green Prophet)
• Celebrate Tu B’Shevat, New Year’s for Trees, now Jewish Earth Day (Green Prophet)
• Celebrate Tu B’Shvat with a Tu B’Shvat Seder (Green Prophet)
• Oren Blonder on Israel’s role in Mideast water security (Green Prophet)
• Israeli water consumption down 9 percent in 2009 (Haaretz)
• Israel can do more than cleantech to reduce regional carbon footprint (Green Prophet)
• Water also flows downhill (Haaretz)
• Haifa University study generates a profile of the Israeli cyclist (Green Prophet)
• Nature authority succeeds in breeding rare bird of prey (Haaretz)
• A deadly scorpion provides a safe pesticide (Green Prophet)
• Beit She'an sewage flowing into stream as multimillion-shekel treatment plant near idle (Haaretz)
• A drone that hones in on leaky pipes at home (Israel21c)
• Israeli fisherman jailed for poisoning Kinneret catch (Haaretz)
• “Leggy” new spider found in the Sands of Samar, the largest in the Middle East (Green Prophet)
• Bill seeks to regulate pasture lands (Haaretz)
• Report exposes radioactive waste in Galilee, Haifa Bay (Haaretz)
• Bicycles to be allowed on trains in pilot project starting January (Jerusalem Post)
• One of the world's rarest mammals spotted near Herzliya (Haaretz)
• Group calls to ban single-use plastic bags (Jerusalem Post)
• Health Ministry wants to put coal ash recycling plan on back burner (Haaretz)
• Water security in the Middle East: From the desk of Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (Green Prophet)
• The Dead Sea can't wait (Haaretz)
• Call of the wild has lessened, public says (Jerusalem Post)
• Seeing green (Haaretz)
• National plan for solar energy plants to be approved within six months (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel Water Series: Interview with Ashkelon Mayor Benny Vaknin (Green Prophet)
• From ammunition crates to owl nests (Jerusalem Post)
• Riding and holding the waves (Israel21c)
• Raanan Boral on Israel’s water security and sustainability potential in Middle East (Green Prophet)
• Interview with Eli Ronen, chairman of Mekorot, Israel’s national water company (Green Prophet)
• Cash for clunkers, the Israeli version (Haaretz)
• Gidon Bromberg on water security and sustainability in the Middle East (Green Prophet)
• Nature authority offers 'conflict mediation service' for farmers, pests (Haaretz)
• 'Petrified bike' metaphor for a shrinking Dead Sea? (Green Prophet)
• Out of their depth (Jerusalem Post)
• Shimon Tal: Facts and personal opinions on water from Israel’s former water commissioner (Green Prophet)
• Hadera's water desalination plant activated (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Oil find outside Tel Aviv: A blessing or ecological nightmare? (Green Prophet)
• Oil well with potential found in Israel (UPI — United Press International)
• 'Hope Tree' of bottles for the Sea of Galilee (Green Prophet)
• The campaign calls for individual and community action to encourage sustainable practices (Jerusalem Post)
• Resurrecting the Dead Sea (Jordan Times)
• 45 firms express interest in Jordan Red Sea Project (Jordan Times)
• 'Jordan will urge World Bank to speed up Red-Dead project studies' (Jordan Times)
• Environmental diplomacy and the Middle East (Today's Zaman)
• IEC to buy $9.5b of natural gas from Tamar field (Haaretz)
• Israel's agriculture in the 21st century (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Bottle Deposit Law revisions approved for second and third readings (Jerusalem Post)
• Drought tax may be reinstated, depending on rain (Haaretz)
• Water from Hadera desalination plant enters National Water Carrier (Jerusalem Post)
• Where will the water go? (Haaretz)
• Increased water prices to hit most vulnerable, say NGOs (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
• Bill offers NIS 5,000 reward for reporting illegal waste dumping (Haaretz)
• Givot Olam reports gas and oil — again (Haaretz)
• Noble Energy executes letter of intent for natural gas from Tamar (Scandinavian Oil-Gas Magazine)
• Cleaner fuels don't necessarily cause less air pollution (Haaretz)
• 'Gov't failed to provide proper incentives for solar panels' (Jerusalem Post)
• Overflowing Haifa sewage pipe makes cruddy wave-riding for Israeli surfers (Haaretz)
• Last call for a subway (Haaretz)
• State to prioritize 'green' patents (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Gov't committee to discuss reduction in greenhouse gases (Haaretz)
• Divided climate talks end with deal (Jerusalem Post)
• Kibbutz installs solar heaters (Haaretz)
• The situation of the Dead Sea is getting worse by the day (Jordan Times)
• Increasing density and doing with less (Haaretz)
• Israel Defense Forces go green (Defence Professionals)
• Water Authority hails backing of drought tax (Haaretz)
• Experts claim increasing water prices will leave some high and dry (Jordan Times)
• Report slams lack of action on long-term water crisis (Haaretz)
• Israel's green future (Xinhua)
• Israel anxious not to harm industrial growth (Haaretz)
• Address by President Peres to the UN Climate Change Conference (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• Israel must join the Jewish world and go green (Haaretz)
• Peres in Copenhagen: Pollution travels without passports (Arutz Sheva)
• Environment Ministry wants emission cut (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel must do its part to stop global warming (Haaretz)
• 'Water Authority hid much info from public' (Jerusalem Post)
• Work to start on new sewage pipe (Haaretz)
• Israeli NGOs light Channukah candles and push for government action in Copenhagen (Green Prophet)
• Hundreds of companies stuck with solar power systems they can't use (Haaretz)
• The Jewish Beduin (Jerusalem Post)
• Firms in state of 'hysteria' as darkness falls on Israel's solar industry (Haaretz)
• Covering the Ayalon Freeway: The full plan (Haaretz)
• A roof over the highway would supply additional green spaces for the public's benefit (Haaretz)
• Parshat Miketz – solutions for famine (Green Prophet)
• Water prices to rise almost 50% by 2011 (Haaretz)
• Sad story of the Dead Sea (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• On eve of green summit, Israel's situation is bleak (Haaretz)
• Hanukkah lights in Copenhagen (Washington Post)
• Jewish environmental group increasing efforts as climate debate heats up (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
• NIS 60m water treatment plant set to save Jordan River near Kinneret (Haaretz)
• JNF funds Christmas tree distribution in Jerusalem (Jerusalem Post)
• Mario Levi, founder of the Israel Bio-Organic Agriculture Association, is still full of vigor (Haaretz)
• Israeli renewable energy – why Israel, why now? (Green Prophet)
• Bill to conserve water in public buildings set for first reading (Jerusalem Post)
• Haifa Chemicals to make $60m from selling emission credits (Haaretz)
• Palestinians: Dead Sea won't be a 'world wonder' (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• PA tries to play down JNF tree donations for Arab city (Arutz Sheva)
• The oasis of Mount Trashmore (Haaretz)
• New Jewish food movement steps up focus on social justice (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
• JNF donation to 'PA city' Rawabi sparks uproar (Jerusalem Post)
• A new Palestinian city takes root — with JNF trees (Haaretz)
• Food for thought (Jerusalem Post)
• Hanukkah and the importance of spreading the 'green' message (Green Prophet)
• Netanyahu won't lead delegation to Copenhagen (Jerusalem Post)
• The battle over the salt of the earth (Haaretz)
• The UN tells Israel to produce more solar power (Green Prophet)
• Environment minister bowing to business interests, watchdog avers (Haaretz)
• Greenpeace petition calls on Netanyahu to attend Copenhagen Climate Change Summit (Green Prophet)
• A challenge and an opportunity in Copenhagen (Jerusalem Post)
• Will Israel get slammed at Copenhagen Summit? (The Media Line)
• Dead Sea under increasing danger (ANSAmed)
• Meet Noam Dolgin of the Green Zionist Alliance (Green Prophet)
• Environmental collaboration between California, Israel planned (Jewish Journal)
• Who’s testing environment impact as Israel drills for oil at Dead Sea? (Green Prophet)
• Environment: Gilad Erdan's green revolution (Jerusalem Post)
• Vertical farms may be the only crop solution for the Middle East (Green Prophet)
• 'Israel not reducing greenhouse gases' (Jerusalem Post)
• State to help separate domestic waste (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Israel ill-prepared for tackling climate change (Haaretz)
• Israeli public supports strong action on climate change (Green Prophet)
• Cliff erosion problem expensive to fix, even more expensive to ignore (Haaretz)
• Preparing for Copenhagen: What can Israel expect? (Jerusalem Post)
• Algae into biofuel a 'greener' story in joint Israeli and Chinese project (Green Prophet)
• Climate change: what Israel is doing (The Jewish Community Online)
• Why Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian ones (Green Prophet)
• How green was my shtreimel? (Jewlicious)
• Corals feeding on jellyfish: A strategy to deal with climate change? (Green Prophet)
• Environmental insurance taking off as new risks influence financial success (Jerusalem Post)
• California’s PG&E looks to invest up to $1.5 billion in BrightSource and alt-energy plants (Green Prophet)
• Israeli ecologists could help stop global warming (Haaretz)
• Toronto’s stock exchange courts Israeli clean tech (Green Prophet)
• Israel Energy Forum pushes power save (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel: Preparing for Copenhagen (Israel Ministry of the Environment)
• 4 US-Israel energy ventures win $3.3m. in government grants (Jerusalem Post)
• Tel Aviv's stray cats no longer have to go hungry (Haaretz)
• Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis encircle the Dead Sea with the number 350 on Climate Change Action Day (Friends of the Earth Middle East)
• Going green on both sides of big blue (Jerusalem Post)
• Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive (Agence France Presse)
• Jerusalem gazelles get guaranteed home after a 10-year battle (Haaretz)
• Eilat region seeks to become center for renewable energy (Jerusalem Post)
• Speech at the Windsor Celebration by Nigel Savage, member of the Jewish delegation and executive director of Hazon (Jewish Climate Change Campaign)
• Hebrew University professors now lecture to train passengers (Haaretz)
• Jerusalem's Deer Valley gets green light to become nature park (Jerusalem Post)
• Dead Sea may dry out completely by 2050 (Times of India)
• United Nations experts demand stronger laws for protecting environment during war (Green Prophet)
• A plant among the flowers (Haaretz)
• Waiting in the wings (Jerusalem Post)
• Introducing 'hydro-diplomacy': Can water bring peace to the Middle East? (Green Prophet)
• The electric potato (Jerusalem Post)
• Greens blast water body for siphoning from streams in Galilee (Haaretz)
• Jewish Israelis and Jewish Americans look to U.S.-Israel cooperation to break oil dependence (Green Prophet)
• 70 countries gather in TA to standardize electric car chargers (Jerusalem Post)
• Green housing construction gets underway in Israel (Green Prophet)
• Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan's choice of goals for the next year are all worthy and, if achieved, will drastically improve the standard of living for the country's residents (Jerusalem Post)
• Rafael pioneer among state firms in solar power for its plants (Haaretz)
• Israelis at the forefront of the green industry (Jerusalem Post)
• High cancer risk from Tel Aviv-area pollution (Haaretz)
• Environmental Ministry looking into radiation dangers from hybrid cars (Jerusalem Post)
• Environment ministry fails to find guilty parties in Yarkon pollution scandal (Haaretz)
• The Middle East 'drowning in waste' (Jerusalem Post)
• Are Israeli emission controls hopeless? (Green Prophet)
• Jewish environmentalists launch campaign to combat climate change (Jerusalem Post)
• Greenhouse-gas emissions reductions at the center of discussions between Israel's Environmental Protection Minister Erdan and Prime Minister Netanyahu (Israel Ministry of the Environment)
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be interested in leading his country away from its current dependence on imported oil (Green Prophet)
• 'Going green' would boost economy (Jerusalem Post)
• Panel says pesticides are harming people, killing birds (Haaretz)
• New research ship to paint the Red Sea green (Green Prophet)
• Israel is drying up (Jerusalem Post)
• Two more dry years will endanger aquifers (Haaretz)
• Israel negotiating importing water from Turkey (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• No pipe dream to save a stream, says parks authority (Haaretz)
• Water Authority: Consumers to pay for crisis (Jerusalem Post)
• Activists cry foul over poultry plan (Haaretz)
• Israelis bring green power to West Bank village (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Guest Columnist: Amnesty's travesty (Jerusalem Post)
• State to ban sale of electricity-hogging household appliances (Haaretz)
• Dialysis for our city aquifers (Israel21c)
• The sad state of green construction in Israel (Haaretz)
• Google 'sees the light' by investing in more Israeli renewable-energy projects (Green Prophet)
• Innowattech proves it can collect energy from highways and byways (Canada's Israel)
• Major water sources drying up as rain season begins (Jerusalem Post)
• Super-Sol is going solar (Haaretz)
• Olive presses polluting streams (Arutz Sheva)
• Israeli inventions that could shape the next green century (Jerusalem Post)
• What will Dalia do when her shower runs dry? (Haaretz)
• Siemens to buy Solel for $418 million to expand solar business (Bloomberg)
• Increasing numbers of Israelis are replacing their lawns with synthetic grass (Jerusalem Post)
• New Israeli battery provides thousands of hours of power (Jerusalem Post)
• Haifa kids at highest risk from pollution (Haaretz)
• Israeli wins Nobel for Dead Sea work (USA Today)
• GZA member: 'Environmental enforcement measures ineffective' (Jerusalem Post)
• Environmental movement stirs Jews to go green (Houston Chronicle)
• Climate touted as Israel's big challenge (Jerusalem Post)
• Jordan's government seeking funding for Red Sea Water Project (Jordan Times, via Water World)
• Ben Gurion Airport will become one of the first airports in the world to generate renewable energy (Israel21c)
• Wrong on water (Jerusalem Post)
• For a thriftier, more efficient society (Haaretz)
• Brazil to learn water saving from Israel for Rio 2016 (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Beating swords into green plowshares in Israel (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
• Jordan to go solo with Red Sea to Dead Sea pipeline (Agence France Presse)
• Germany’s SOLON enters solar energy 'gold rush' in Israel (Green Prophet)
• Optical 'soil dipstick' forecasts the health of farms, forests and the planet (Green Prophet)
• 'Ye shall live in booths' and be with nature during Sukkot (Green Prophet)
• Air pollution drops dramatically on Yom Kippur (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• Litter abounds at many of Israel’s undeclared beaches (New Tang Dynasty Television)
• Foreigners lend a hand in counting flocks over Israel (Jerusalem Post)
• Powering down on Yom Kippur (Green Prophet)
• The pursuit of cost-effective desalination (New York Times)
• Israel can be 'knowledge center' for climate-change adaptation technology (Jerusalem Post)
• New boost for clean energy launched (Jerusalem Post)

• JFN awards $1.5 million in grants to Israeli environmental orgs (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

• Is Israel ready for 'green metrics'? (Jerusalem Post)

• Israel, Jordan find accord in finding new water supplies (Washington Post)
• NATO aids water bridge between Jordan, Israel and the U.S. (Israel21c)
• Israel not doing well on climate change (Jerusalem Post)
• Renault electric vehicle to roll into Israel in 2011 (Jerusalem Post)

• Israel mourns the dying Dead Sea (BBC News)

• Gobbling up the dirt in water (Israel21c)
• Pioneering Israeli environmentalist, former MK Yosef Tamir, dies at 94 (Haaretz)
• Phone home with Israeli solar cells (Israel21c)
• Giving gas the boot (Haaretz)
• The heat paradox (Jerusalem Post)
• Of waste and want (Haaretz)
• Swimming in sewage (IRIN)
• Green land in Yavneh attracts jackal packs (Haaretz)
• Environmentally friendly construction on the rise, experts say (Jerusalem Post)
• It's chic, it's savvy, it's green (Haaretz)
• New partners join SHATIL’s efforts to stop new coal power station (New Israel Fund)
• Israelis working to save endangered species through cloning (Haaretz)
• International consultants to pave way for Israel's emissions reduction strategy (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel launches program to save coastal aquifer (Haaretz)
• 50,000-seat amphitheater planned for Hiria, Israel’s trash mountain (Green Prophet)

• Rainwater collection system saves water, money for schools (Haaretz)

• Israeli pioneering use of 'bottled' solar energy has many following suit (Green Prophet)
• State increasing incentive to use renewable energy (Haaretz)
• The Hula Valley gets stocked as birds prepare for 'Pelican Restaurant' (Green Prophet)
• Israel's environmental quagmire (Haaretz)
• Jordan, Israel and Palestinian reps meet to jumpstart controversial Red-Dead Canal (Green Prophet)
• Australian-Israeli team hoping to rescue rainwater runoff (Haaretz)
• Harnessing the urban wind (Israel21c)
• Israel Railways teams up with Better Place to refuel electric-car commuters (Green Prophet)
• Ecological hub proposed for Modiin (Green Prophet)
• Dipping into Israel's water technologies (Israel21c)
• Israeli parents organize 'walking bus' to transport schoolchildren (Green Prophet)
• World Bank approves Dead Sea canal plan (Agence France Presse)
• Biofuels spark regional cooperation between Israel, Palestinians and Germany (Green Prophet)

• Owls replace pesticides in Israel (BBC News)

• Lots of sunshine power in the Holy Land as China and Israel complete solar plant (Green Prophet)
• More Israelis using gray water to keep their gardens green (Haaretz)
• Israel to compensate Jordan for polluted river water with water from the Sea of Galilee (Green Prophet)
• The answer is in the trees (Haaretz)
• N-Viro International smells lucrative sewage sludge in the center of Israel (Green Prophet)
• Israeli tycoon Yitzhak Tshuva sees Red-Dead Canal as a money-maker (Green Prophet)
• Solar energy is Israel's best energy bet (Green Prophet)
• Beer Sheva getting 100,000 sq. meters of greenwash (Green Prophet)
• IDF goes green in bid to protect Hermon wildlife (Haaretz)
• Algae biofuel to send astronauts to space? Israel's Seambiotic partners with NASA (Green Prophet)
• Smoking the sewage pipe (Israel21c)
• Study: Climate change threatens Mideast stability (Ynet / Yediot Ahronot)
• President Shimon Peres and Environmental Protection Ministry team up for the Environment (Green Prophet)
• Israeli technology derives bio-fuel from algae (Israel21c)
• Renewable energy at the kibbutz (New York Times)
• Environmentalism: Good for the Jews (Forward)
• Dr. Alon Tal: Israel's leading environmentalist  (Hadassah Magazine)
• Naomi Tsur, who's sustaining Jerusalem from the inside out (Green Prophet)
• Water shortage predicted amid dry spel (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel ramps up desalination facilities in Hadera (Green Prophet)
• Israel Aircraft Industries joins Europe to make 'clean skies' and greener, quieter aircraft (Green Prophet)
• 'Agriculture's future lies in sustainability' (Jerusalem Post)
• Germany and Israel jointly launch Ethiopian irrigation project (Earth Times)
• Importing water: An idea abandoned  (Jerusalem Post)
• Nike to introduce shoe-recycling program in Israel (Green Prophet)
• Conservation efforts: Start with the small  (Jerusalem Post)
• Recycling the depressed development town of Arad (Green Prophet)
• Rain harvesting: One private initiative  (Jerusalem Post)
• A man-made disaster (Jerusalem Post)
• Pollution: How well is the water? (Jerusalem Post)
• Green Movement-Meimad to stress environmental issues in elections (Jerusalem Post)
• Recognition growing for eco-corridors (Haaretz)
• Green roof system to take root in Jerusalem schools (Haaretz)
• Making the desert bloom with solar flower power (Israel21c)
• Obama may adopt Israeli electric car (Jerusalem Post)
• Israeli company creates drinking water out of thin air  (Haaretz)
• Can an unknown Israeli save the world from ecological disaster? (Haaretz)
• 'Mismanagement to blame for worst water crisis ever' (Jerusalem Post)
• Yom Kippur = Carfree Day in Tel Aviv (photo essay)  (Treehugger)
• Environmental pollution-related cancer kills 1,250 Israelis yearly (Haaretz)
• WHO measures require 66 percent reduction in Israel air pollution (Haaretz)
• Dead Sea 'to disappear by 2050' (BBC News)
• The Dead Sea is dying (CBS News)
• Still waters (Jerusalem Post)
• The myth of water: Making the Negev desert bloom once seemed like a good idea, but it's killing the Dead Sea (Newsweek)
• Oct. 6, 1912: Jewish farming activity: An interesting article in the Jewish Year Book (New York Times)

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