Reflections of a FoEME Intern
My time at FoEME has come to a close. It’s been an incredible summer. I want to reflect briefly on the work I’ve done here and the lessons I’ve taken away. While here I helped with a number of different projects. The one that took up most of time concerned measuring pollution risk to the […]
FoEME Launches International Jordan River Photography Exhibition to Raise Awareness of the Critical State of the River on August 23 in Stockholm, Sweden during World Water Week 2011
Over the next three years, FoEME in partnership with the Global Nature Fund will host a traveling exhibition throughout Europe to help raise awareness of the tragic state of the Lower Jordan River.
Social Protests in the Middle East and Global Biodiversity Loss
You might be wondering “What do the social protests in the Middle East and global biodiversity loss share in common?” First, thanks for asking. Second, this article intends to explain this unusual connection.
Welcome to Auja Environmental Center
Recently I had the pleasure of spending several days at the Auja Environmental Center in Al Auja, Palestine. FoEME has developed two pilot environmental centers in the Lower Jordan River Basin. Both centers, the Auja Environmental Center and the Sharhabil Bin Hassneh EcoPark provide wonderful opportunities to escape urbanity, learn about the local ecology, breathe in fresh air, […]
FoEME Inspires Environmental Cooperation in Countries in Conflict
The week of July 3rd, a representative of FoEME was invited to attend and present at the Young Global Leaders Initiative on India Pakistan Cooperation Conference held on July 8-9 in Lahore, Pakistan. This year’s theme was Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Managing Risks, Creating Benefits. The conference brought together leaders from Pakistan and […]
Do They Think We Are Idiots? We All Know Dead Sea Works is Destroying the Dead Sea
Over the past few weeks, Dead Sea Works (DSW) has saturated Israeli media outlets with a misinformation campaign in ads, on the Internet, television, newspapers, and billboards all over the country claiming that the “Dead Sea Works brings life to the Dead Sea” when in fact they are directly responsible for its destruction.
It’s Hard to Hear the Truth about Water
On July 5th and 6th, FoEME participated in the annual CleanTech exhibition in Tel Aviv. Representatives from all three offices were at the exhibition, including FoEME staff and adult Good Water Neighbor residents. It was exciting for us to learn about all of the clean products and services available in Israel. Though our booth was […]
Dancing for the Lower Jordan River
The weekend of June 24th, FoEME hosted an exciting youth camp with over 40 Jordanian, Israeli, and Palestinian youth in the Jordan River Valley in Israel as part of our “Good Water Neighbors” project. The youth participated in the Global Water Dance, learned about their shared water resources, witnessed pollution that contaminates their watershed and had […]
FoEME Brings Largest Delegation of Jordanian and Palestinian Residents to the Israeli Parliament in History Calling on Water Issues to Cease being held Hostage to the Conflict.
On June 21, 2011, Friends of the Earth Middle East arrived to the Knesset early in the morning excited and ready to engage with members of the Knesset and to urge action to be taken to rehabilitate, protect and secure our shared water future. On Knesset Environment Day, FoEME arrived with 42 participants and […]
FoEME’s Youth Water Trustees Celebrate Google Earth Launch of Community GIS
On June 13th and 14th 2011, FoEME’s Tel Aviv office hosted an event at the Science Museum in Jerusalem while FoEME’s Bethlehem office hosted an event at our Auja Environmental Center to celebrate the hard work of FoEME’s Youth Water Trustees! For the last year FoEME’s Youth Water Trustees of the “Good Water Neighbors” project […]