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• The Homelands Blog

  The Arab Oil Embargo changed America. Did it change us?

  March 14, 2014

  Homelands’ Jonathan Miller has produced a two-part series for PRI’s The World on the 40th anniversary of the end of the Arab Oil Embargo. The first part, which aired yesterday, looks at how (or whether) …

• Sandy Tolan, Alan Weisman

  Searching for Solutions

  The State of Solar Energy

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  Sandy Tolan, Alan Weisman

  Searching for Solutions

  The State of Solar Energy

  In Israel, where developing alternative energy was always seen as a matter of survival, solar technology is pointing a way out of dependence on fossil fuels. Story produced in 1995.

  Nearly everyone agrees that fossil fuels will run out someday – some say we’ll start feeling the pinch within 30 years.

  Predictions of disastrous floods that global warming could bring to island nations like Japan, and to coastal areas of Europe and the United States, may force us to phase out petroleum-based fuels even faster.

  If so, are clean, renewable alternatives really viable? And can they be developed in time?

  In Israel, a Middle Eastern country with no oil or coal reserves, scientists have studied one option, solar energy, longer than anyone.

  Date

  Summer 1995

  Outlets

  Weekend Edition

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  Themes: Technology, Environment

  Regions: Middle East

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan, Alan Weisman

  Other Tags: alternative energy, solar, israel, solar power, solar energy