BUSTAN is a partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers promoting social and environmental justice in Israel/Palestine. BUSTAN cultivates sustainable models to effect change by combining advocacy and in-depth political analysis with strategic action. BUSTAN utilizes the principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across ethnic divides.

• BUSTAN US and Ireland/England Speaking Tour Dates!
• Media Coverage of Children's Power Project
• Bustan featured on National Public Radio (NPR) - "Israel's Bedouins Fear an End to Their Way of Life"
• Israeli Bedouin soldier killed in Gaza had a demolition order on his home
• BUSTAN Winter Newsletter Now Available! Click for Hebrew and Arabic.
• New Human Rights Watch Report - "Israel: End Systematic Bias Against Bedouin"
• April 14 - BUSTAN SPECIAL NEGEV UNPLUGGED ECO-TOUR
• World Water Day 2008 - Sign the Petition for the Right to Water in the Palestinian Territories and Israel
• Bustan's Children's Power Project featured in the Jerusalem Post - "Harnessing the Sun, Empowering Beduin Equality"
• Children's Power Project - Project Launch Event March 18
• Inviting Applications: Bustan's Negev Permaculture Course
• Los Angeles Times: ISRAEL: Bedouins have solar-powered mosque
• BUSTAN Seeks Environmental Economist Intern - Apply by March 5th, 2008
• Free Informational Night- Permaculture
• Haaretz: Interior Ministry: Israel to okay new arab city this year
• BUSTAN TV - Recently Launched
• Haaretz: Climate fraud, carbon profits
• RCUV Requests Comment to the Goldberg Commission regarding Bedouin Settlement in the Negev.
• RESCHEDULED - January 29th at 6:30pm - BUSTAN TV & Human Rights Event in BUSTAN Green Center. See previous announcement for details on event content.
• BUSTAN's MedWed clinic in Wadi Na'am to be featured on the homepage of Architecture for Humanity
• BUSTAN JANUARY EVENTS! - Tu B'Shvat Healing Seder and BUSTAN TV & Human Rights
• Al Talalqa Tribe Invites Public: Traditional Bedouin Sowing in the Negev
• Backgrounder: JNF Land Bill for Jews Only
• BUSTAN receives grant from the World Social Forum Human Rights and Accountability Caucus
• Natural Salve-Making Sessions at BUSTANs Green Center
• Children's Power Project
• BUSTAN featured in the War Resister's League 2008 Calender
• BUSTAN's New Quarterly Newsletter
• Jerusalem Post: NIS 1.86b. Suit Eyes Ramat Hovav Firm
• The sun as savior Stopping climate Change in the Middle East:Ways out of an Unfolding Catastrophe, Fouad Hamdan
• BUSTAN U.S. Speaking Tour, October 2007
• Home Demolitions today in the Negev – the Government of Israel demolished 15 homes
• Getting the Greater Beer Sheva Community into Composting: BUSTANs Green Center
• Reuters: "Study: Israel is biggest polluter in eastern Mediterranean"
• BUSTAN Eco-Designer Michal Vital - Women's Peace Exchange 2007 Speaking Tour
• Wadi el Na'am in the News... AFP: "Bedouin Struggle for Land in Israel Desert"
• Unprecedented: United Nations adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• BUSTAN CELEBRATES OPENING OF NEW "GREEN CENTER" IN BEER SHEVA
• Ha'aretz: "Israel tops green list - thanks to the IDF" (!) By Zafrir Rinat
• Haaretz: "Pines-Paz: Evacuate Ramat Hovav region"
• Each Thursday at BUSTAN's Green Center: Weekly English Environmental Discussion Groups
• BBC: "The Bedouin of Israel" - Airing Aug, 29 - Sept. 3
• A DESERT TIMELINE: The Socio-environmental Transformation of an Ancient Heritage Site over a Century
• Explosion at Ramat Hovav.... Haaretz: "Workers evacuated after chemical plant explosion" (and Bedouin Families Evacuated from Surrounding Area)
• Haaretz: "Against all Planning Logic"
• Environmental Scientist Alice Gray on Bustan Unplugged Tours
• BUSTAN Presentation: 'On the Way to Sulha' 2007
• Jerusalem Post: "Last chance with the Bedouin?"
• Jerusalem Post Cover Story on BUSTAN Tour: "Beduin protest government eviction plan"
• Ynet: "Hundreds of Bedouins demonstrate at new Lehavim train station" (Camel Riders or Train Riders?)
• The Jewish Advocate: "Arguing for the Negev Now" (or: "Make the Negev Desert 'Blossom As the Rose'," Shimon Peres)
• Haaretz: "Construction of massive IDF base gets government go-ahead"
• BUSTAN Article, News From Within: "THE SCENE OF MANY CRIMES: SUFFOCATING SELF-SUBSISTENCE IN THE NEGEV"
• Uprooting = Redeeming the Negev? A Message From Founder Devorah Brous
• BUSTAN's Wadi Na'am Clinic Receives Honorable Mention in Israel's Most Prestigious Architecture Competition
• Solar Power Initiative: Children's Power Project - BUSTAN Circulates Solar-powered Medical Equipment to Um Batin Village
• LISTEN, On-the-Map Media Initiative: BUSTAN speaks about the American Role in Negev Development on WBAI-NY, Beyond the Pale
• JNF Website: Blueprint Negev - Artificial Desert Rivers in the Midst of a Water Crisis
• BUSTAN Article, News From Within: "BEDOUIN VILIFIED AMONG TOP TEN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN ISRAEL"
• BUSTAN's First-Ever General Assembly as a Formal NGO - January 4th, 2007
• Ma'ariv Weekend Edition Highlights BUSTAN's Wadi Na'am Sustainable Health Services Campaign
• BUSTAN Article, News From Within: "A DESERT 'MIRAGE:' THE RISING ROLE OF AMERICAN MONEY IN NEGEV DEVELOPMENT"
• BUSTAN Article, Hagada (Hebrew news), Inamo (German Middle East Journal) and News From Within: "THE OIL SHALE 'SOLUTION' TO PEAK CRUDE: WITH ISRAEL AS THE TESTING GROUND"
• BUSTAN Op Ed, Haaretz: "Scrapping the Oil Shale Scam, Investing in Infinite Energy"
• Design Like You Give a Damn: Medwed Building Featured in New Architecture Book
• BUSTAN Article, The Permaculture Activist: "Still Time to Learn From the Bedouin"
• LISTEN, On-the-Map Media Initiative: NPR Interview with BUSTAN
• Director Invited to Be One of Founding Members of WGGAN: Women's Global Green Action Network
• Critque of Blueprint Negev, BUSTAN Op Ed: "Bedouin Woes"
• BUSTAN Op Ed, Jerusalem Post: "Solar Energy, Not Shale Pollution"
• BUSTAN Op Ed, Haaretz: "Not Greening, But Weeding the Negev"
• LISTEN, On-the-Map Media Initiative: San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia - "Ecobuilding as Direct Action in Israel"
• 'Bedouin Blues,' Graphic Art, By NY Artist Seth Tobocman
• BUSTAN Academic Article, The 'Uprooting:' Education Void of Indigenous "Location-Specific" Knowledge among Negev Bedouin Arabs in Southern Israel, By Devorah Brous
• HEBREW: BUSTAN PROJECT BACKGROUND