Cross border preservation of terraced landscape – a Good Water Neighbors Priority Initiative
The Mate Yehude Regional Council in Israel and the West Bethlehem villages in Palestine are two partnering communities of FoEME’s Good Water Neighbors project (GWN) launched one decade ago to raise awareness of the water problems shared by Jordanians, Palestinians, and Israelis.Over the last months, FoEME staff reached out to stakeholders, decision makers and funding […]
Good Water Neighbors Project Series Addressing Cross Border Air and Water Pollution from Industry
FoEME’s Good Water Neighbors project (GWN) launched one decade ago to raise awareness of the water problems shared by Palestinians, Jordanians, and Israelis.Over the last months, FoEME staff reached out to stakeholders, decision makers and funding bodies to identify the priority projects needing advancement in those communities. This consultation resulted in the development of Priority […]
Birds of a Feather
Every year farmers in the Jordan Valley lose the majority of their crops to pests. Through regional cooperation between Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli farmers, a solution to the problem has been found in the form of none other than barn owls. In sharing and promoting the use of barn owls and kestrels as biological pest […]
Telling the Story of Auja’s water through the Auja Eco Center
Located in the Jordan Valley, North of Jericho, the municipality of Auja is facing environmental problems which are not unfamiliar to the region. The greatest obstacle in Auja is water scarcity, which is clearly manifested in the diminished flow of the Auja Spring, the main water source of the municipality.
London 2012 – Olympic Youth Peace Ambassadors
I arrived at the Olympic Youth Peace Ambassadors (OYPA) seminar in the late evening together with Ayelet Tapiro, Friends of the Earth Middle East’s community coordinator from Emek Hefer Regional Council. The fact that all the participants stayed together in one hotel, on the same floor and the same rooms were close to each other, […]
National Geographic Author Lectures on the Jordan River, and FOEME, at the Chautauqua Institution
“Water Wars”—and the geography of hope—was the subject of a Keynote lecture to 5,000 listeners at the Chautauqua Institution this summer, as author Don Belt capped National Geographic “Water Week” at Chautauqua with a description of how the Jordan River, and FOEME, present a model for how geopolitical neighbors, even in the world’s toughest neighborhoods, […]
Good Water Neighbors and Kosovo
This year Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) forged a partnership with the Forum for Civic Initiatives (FIQ), a non-governmental organization in Kosovo dedicated to increasing citizens’ participation in decision-making processes. Aiming to exchange experiences and share some of the lessons learned from 10 years of community based environmental peacemaking, FoEME’s Good Water Neighbors […]
Raising awareness one triathlon at a time
On the 30th of March, 2013, FoEME, in conjunction with Wild and Free Adventures and the Jordan Triathlon Federation will be organizing a triathlon at Ziglab Lake. By having this event at the Sharhabil Bin Hassneh Ecopark FoEME hopes to create a greater awareness of the EcoPark, while Wild and Free Adventures also hopes to encourage […]
A tour to a unique eco-cultural landscape, around the Palestinian village of Battir
On the 31st of August, a group of forty people participated in a tour jointly arranged by FoEME and the Jerusalem-based NGO Ir Amim, in the Palestinian villages of Walajeh and Battir. The visit was meant to raise awareness on the need to protect a unique cultural and heritage landscape, threatened by the Separation Barrier. Battir […]
Water conference makes for better neighbors
“Water” was the word on everyone’s lips at EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East’s Good Water Neighbors (GWN) conference staged in Jericho earlier this month. More than 250 representatives from Jordan, Palestine and Israel, along with international experts and scholars, gathered at Jericho’s InterContinental Hotel on September 11 and 12 to hear about the cross […]