Green Prophet is a news website that covers

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and sustainable news about the Middle East."Eco-Muslims Greening the Earth"
''Aquila Style Magazine'', By Laila Achmad, Friday, 31st August 2012 It focuses mainly on topics related to the

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. In 2012, the site was reaching almost 200,000 viewers per month. By 2015, more than 20 journalists and analysts reported for Green Prophet, following social issues related to the environment, in the Middle East-North Africa region.

History

Green Prophet was founded in 2008 by Karin Kloosterman, an environmental activist from

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, who moved to the Middle East. At first the website focused on environmental news from

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. Shortly thereafter it began to publish news and feature articles about environmental topics throughout the Middle East, including eco-faith, solar and wind energy, organic living, sustainable housing, oil independence, science and health. Over the years Karin reports being one of the "biggest friends to the enemy states", because she works from Israel, a society with freedom of speech, she is able to write about the atrocities reported to her secretly from people in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, who might "disappear" for social, environmental action. In 2009 Green Prophet hosted
blogger's conference
for young Palestinians, connecting them to Jordanians and Israelis to help writers improve content and awareness about shared ecological issues. The event was organized b
Daniella Cheslow
an American-Israeli, now an editor at Politico. Green Prophet followed a social experiment in electricity use Masdar City in

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in 2010.
ARPA Journal. by Gökçe Günel May 15, 2014 Notable writers include Daniella Cheslow (NPR, Washington Post)
Arwa Aburawa
(Al Jazeera).

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External links

www.greenprophet.com
Environmental blogs Internet properties established in 2008