
ISRAEL21c’s top 10 stories of 2012
2012 was a year of innovation and progress. To celebrate the New Year, ISRAEL21c looks back at the top stories of the year.
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2012 was a year of innovation and progress. To celebrate the New Year, ISRAEL21c looks back at the top stories of the year.

How Israel’s biggest eye-sore is being turned into a massive public park and recycling education center.

A revolutionary new seed treatment from Morflora could improve the world’s agricultural output, without the need for worrying genetic engineering.

Israel’s NewCO2Fuel poised to help Australia make its brown coal-burning industry into a greener enterprise.

A sensor system from Israel monitors energy use throughout commercial spaces to slash expenses and keep users comfortable.

‘The sun is the only solution I can see — the only one,’ says Karni, who has pioneered three separate solar technologies.

A new smart phone app from environmental NGO Zalul lets users know the health status of Israeli waterways, and puts pressure on polluters.

A better filtration membrane could make all the difference in the race to prevent a global shortage of potable water.

New ‘green belt’ hiking route circling Israel’s seventh-largest city is also a planning tool for environmentally responsible municipal expansion.

Israeli scientists find novel approaches to tap into the potential of this slimy plantlike organism for fuel, nutrition and innovative medical therapies.

Israeli company makes a mini-sewage plant to help small wineries, olive oil and cheese-makers deal with the pollutants from their industries.

The director of a natural medicine research center in Jerusalem says Israeli plants such as seaweed are ‘treasures’ waiting to reveal healing secrets.

Inventor says global interest in recycled, no maintenance $20 bikes grows daily.

An Arab-Israeli group is recycling traditional Arabic construction techniques for keeping a house cool in summer, warm in winter.

Israel’s Flow Industries makes an ‘air gun’ for clearing industrial blockages, and it may also provide a better way to extract shale oil.