A rapprochement (perhaps) in Tel Aviv.

City for All, a new red-green political movement, is changing the way people think about local politics in Tel Aviv.

“These days we are definitely green, we’re just not quite sure what that means yet.”

A rendering of the future park. (Image by Studio 36, via citydov.org.) “Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard,” sang Coldplay. For a group of neighbors in central Tel Aviv, who set out over a decade ago to transform an abandoned lot in their neighborhood into a park, [...]

Roaming Tel Aviv’s sidewalks is no walk in the park, especially with a young child in tow. By Debbie Herdan.

A review of Drivers of Change, an exploration of the factors that will shape our lives in the not-so-distant future, by Chris Luebkeman.

Finally, a plan to build fast trains in America.

Darfur refugees living in Tel Aviv demonstrate in favor of the decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. A photo essay by Daniel Cherrin.

Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s worst polluters, is working on capturing the carbon dioxide emitted from its smokestacks and pumping it back into the ground, where it will (hopefully) be trapped forever.

What happens when a sewage pipe bursts outside of Tel Aviv, spilling raw sewage into the ocean? Bureaucrats pass the buck, politicians fret and environmentalists moan – but the pollution continues to flow.