What is more important than bringing a smile to a child’s face? FoEME opens new playground at the Auja Environmental Center
Life hasn’t always been easy for the children of Auja, a small village located in the Palestinian Jordan Valley. Certainly a complicated subject underlined by unemployment, limited resources and few opportunities for leisure and play. When FoEME established our Auja Environmental Center(AEC) we aimed to advance environmental education and awareness on the Jordan Valley’s geology, […]
Young Global Leaders visit Eco-park and Bakura
October 2011 saw Jordan hosting the World Economic Forum‘s regional summit at the Dead Sea. Taking advantage of this, a group of Young Global Leaders (YGLs) – one of the WEF’s leading communities – partnered with FoEME in organising a ‘Learning Journey’ for YGLs to learn more about regional environmental peacebuilding efforts. Such ‘Learning Journeys’ […]
The FoEME approach to joint management of shared water: equity, sustainability and efficiency!
Friends of the Earth Middle East has partnered with leading international experts David Brooks and Julie Trottier to develop a new “model” water accord which seeks to address the current unjust distribution of shared water in the region, of which Israel currently takes the largest part. This blog, written by Dr. Brooks, discusses the model’s […]
Al Auja: Experiencing Palestine’s multifaceted cultural, environmental and political issues
Teresa Berninger spent three months as an intern at FoEME Auja Environmental Center. Here is her entry to the International Ecotourism Society titled “Al Auja: Experiencing Palestine’s multifaceted cultural, environmental and political issues”. Scouting new trails for ecotourists
Support the Rehabilitation of the Jordan River with Pictures!
The opening of the Jordan River photography exhibition in the Catholic Church of St. Michael in Cologne, Germany this week began with a mass dedicated to the Jordan River. The extremely deteriorated state of the holy river was very touchingly remembered in light of the River’s central importance for Christianity, the baptism of Jesus and […]
Al Auja as a Palestinian model for an economically beneficial domestic water campaign
Al Auja village is a particularly tragic example of economic problems caused by severe water shortages in the Palestinian territories as a whole. In order for Al Auja to begin rehabilitation toward the prosperity of its “green” age, there needs to be other initiatives and opportunities for employment that are both economically and environmentally beneficial. […]
FoEME Publishes Report “Promoting Green Jobs and Exports in a Green Water Economy in Israel”
In discussions about water saving, people usually talk about how much water is saved when a new technology is implemented. The discussion often ends here. It is assumed that the water saved will have positive impacts on the environment and security, but might there be anything more?
From Scarcity to Abundance: Greywater in Palestine
Last week I went with FoEME’s Palestine Director, Nader Khatib, to see the greywater system in his house. When we arrived, nothing about his house seemed out of the ordinary. Like almost all Palestinian homes, there were several large black water storage tanks on top of his roof. This is because in Palestine the water […]
Jordan River Exhibition Opens in Cologne, Germany on September 17th
FoEME is pleased to invite the public to attend our International Jordan River Photography Exhibition opening at St. Michael’s Church in Cologne, Germany on September 17.
FoEME at World Water Week
I had 2 “missions” during my short time abroad last week in Stockholm: World Water Week, hosted and organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) takes place each year in Stockholm and has been the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues since 1991. Any – and every – body that is an […]