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Cleantech is reporting that the Tel Aviv, Israel-based wave power and desalination company SDE has signed a 25-year agreement with an African country to develop 100 megawatts worth of wave power projects. The cost of the projects is expected to be about $100 million, with potential revenue from the electricity in the $1 billion range.

Sounds great right? But here’s where the ambiguity comes in:...

Now that the US looks set for a radical change in environmental policy, Israelis are mobilizing to try to bring the "Yes we can!" spirit to the Middle East. Environmental awareness has grown here exponentially over the past year or two, and the political map is starting to reflect the change in public opinion. A wave of new local green ...

On October 24, Noha made Egyptians proud when in an unprecedented case, sexual harasser Sherif Gommaa was sentenced to three years behind bars, hard labor, and was also ordered to pay 5,001 Egyptian pounds fine to Noha Roshdy Saleh for groping her in the street.

As America elects its next president, Israeli bloggers ponder which candidate is best for their country. Below are several perspectives on the topic:

Orit Kamir writes

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Will the financial crisis make corporations more responsible? What will make business move beyond philanthropy to true sustainability? What are the responsibilities of government, business and civil society in an era when business dominates society?

These were some of the topics discussed last week at the 2008 Maala – Business for Social Responsibility Conference, held at the Tel Aviv Hilton. A crowd of 600 members of Israel's corporate world spent the day discussing the merits of community involvement and progressive environmental policies, and, of course, how a more respons...

The leader of Israel's ruling party, Tzipi Livni, gave up her attempts to form a governing coalition. Livni has been trying to put together a government since she replaced Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as head of the ruling Kadima party last month. In a live broadcast with president Shimon Peres, Livni said she would not give in to what she termed political blackmail, most likely coming from demands from the religious party, Shas.

Liron Tamam writes:

Anglo-Arab blogger Doshka has decided that Druze men are ‘hot': “In Israel, they are quite possibly all first cousins because they can neither marry out of the sect, nor can outsiders convert to the Druze faith - meaning they have a very, very narrow gene pool. It's a very, very good looking gene pool.”

Jordanian Ola Eliwat asks: “Do you know who is Abdullah Al Barghouthi?” To find out click on the link.

From Israel, Aussie Dave shares his views on TV hit Heroes.

That’s right – Yom Kippur. A somber day of introspection in most of Israel, in mellow Tel Aviv the Day of Atonement is the closest thing to a day without cars in the Middle East. With all cars banished from the pavements for 25 hours, helmet-clad children take to the streets in their masses.

Iman's Constant Cravings, from Palestine, asks: “If animals could speak.. I wonder what they'll have to say about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”

Arabs and Globalisation reports: ‘Just like the Greeks did, when they sued French dairy farms (and won) for using the word “Feta” to describe the cheese they sold, Lebanon is gearing up its own litigation forces to sue Israeli companies over marketing Hummus, Falafel, and Babaghanouj as “Israeli products.”‘

Israellycool reports: “The Jerusalem Post reports on a test drug that could be the answer to preventing Yom Kippur headaches.”

A competition for the title of 'fastest mode of transportation' in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. (Photo by Omer Cohen.)

September 23 was "Public Transportation Day" in Israel, the Holy Land's answer to European Mobility Week and World Carfree Day. In honor of the event, local green groups organized a professional conference and a 6km drag race in Tel Aviv between different modes of transportation.