Jordan Valley Youth Leaderships Learn about Jordan River Woes
Students from Israel, Jordan, and Palestine tour the Jordan Valley, exploring the site where the Jordan River meets the Sea of Galilee On February 25-27, FoEME gathered 30 young leaders from three schools in the Jordan Valley region (Kings Academy, Madaba Jordan; Terra Sancta, Jericho Palestine; Geon Hayarden, Beit Shean Israel), to learn about the […]
Dead Sea Factories Request to Increase the Area of Evaporation Pools – A New Record for Corporate Chutzpah? [Hebrew]
An evaporation pond near the Dead Sea. FoEME is deeply concerned about the Dead Sea Works’ plan to extend the area of the evaporation ponds through the construction of “Pool No. 6.” בעוד ייבושו של ים המלח בקצב מואץ מוכר כגורם לקריסת המערכת האקולוגית של האיזור כולו ומליוני דולרים מושקעים בתוכניות לאומיות ואיזריות לפתרון הבעיה, […]
FoEME’s CGIS Teenagers Take Responsibility for their Shared Environment
CGIS youth present their findings at a joint Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian camp. “I learned that you can cooperate with other people, even when there isn’t a common language and that a lot can be achieved if only we try.” — Hani, a 15 year old Palestinian boy responding to a CGIS activity evaluation question ‘What is the […]
FoEME’s Youval Arbel Reflects on the Copenhagen Climate Conference
Youval Arbel, FoEME’s Israeli Deputy Director, reflects on his experiences at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. From December 13th to 19th, 2009, I was one of about 40,000 disappointment activists and officials who came all the way to freezing Copenhagen to take part in what should have been the ‘turning point’ in the […]
News Roundup – December 17
A solar panel in Palestine (on the wane, according to this week’s news). Photo courtesty of Iyad Aburdeineh. Here’s what happened environmentally in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine this week: An interim report published by a Knesset committee of inquiry into Israel’s water crisis slammed the government for not taking enough long-term action to manage the […]
News Update – December 10
With the entire international community gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark to negotiate a new climate treaty, there’s a lot going on this week. Jordan’s Department of Statistics report that the total area planted with grain in the Kingdom has decreasd 34% compared to last year. Authorities attribute the decline to water scarcity and climate change. Meanwhile, […]
Jordanian Youth Create Posters, Raise Awareness about Climate Change
With the international climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark underway, we’d like to take the opportunity to highlight the efforts of more than 100 Jordanian youngsters who used their creativity to help stop catastrophic climate change. This past month FoEME’s Amman office partnered with UNESCO to run poster competition to increase awareness about the impact of […]
News Roundup – December 3
International Alert, a peace-building NGO, put out a report called Climate Change, Conflict, and Fragility. The report emphasizes the relationship between water stress and conflict, and recommends “that adaptation strategies should be more conflict sensitive, so that water management in water stressed countries was shaped by understanding the systems of power and equity: involve everyone […]
News Roundup, Nov 26 Edition
One exciting new feature of FoEME’s new blog will be a weekly roundup of news stories related to our work here in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine. Here are a few important headlines for this past week: According to new calculations, the Dead Sea may dry up completely by 2050 (featuring quotes from FoEME’s very own […]
We Did It! 350 Event Was a Smashing Success!
[rockyou id=154392228&w=426&h=320] Yesterday, on October 24, 2009, over 300 Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians gathered around the Dead Sea, transcending political and geographical boundaries to create an aerial photomontage as part of the largest day of climate activism ever. Participants, organized by EcoPeace/ Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), joined more than 5,200 communities in […]