Thanks to Alison for linking me to Coast and Ocean news, a California publication. In The View From Israel, a Californian environmentalist reports on a recent visit to Palestine and Israel.
"In Israel, we saw restoration projects that have brought Israelis and Palestinians together. A particularly exciting example was the Alexander River project....Israelis and Palestinians cooperated to bring the Alexander back to life, building one of the largest settling basins in Israel, as well as the world’s largest cattle manure-to-biogas facility. Cooperation also produced Israel’s first constructed wetland and a gloriously restored riparian corridor. All that was accomplished during the second intifada, and although bullets were flying all around, no one in the project was ever hurt. The secret? Neither the Israeli government nor the Palestinian Authority were involved. The project was people-to-people, with only local officials from the Israeli and Palestinian communities having a hand in it."
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