“Energy from the Ground Up” is from GlobalPost’s new video series Energy Entrepreneurs.  Here’s a snippet from the background article on the series:

Al Gore isn’t going to save the world from climate change. (He may not even save his own reputation if salacious allegations about his groping a massage therapist in Portland, Ore. prove true; Gore denies the charges).

But the world doesn’t need Gore, or any other global warming “guru.”

That’s because it already has Khaled Al Sabawi in Ramallah, who’s heating and cooling homes in the West Bank with geothermal energy…

Getting a tattoo in Cairo is a centuries old expression of faith – for Egypt’s Coptic Christians.  Produced for GlobalPost with an article by Theodore May.

I won’t get into the backstory of working this piece, because my co-reporter Theodore May has already done so (very well, I might add) on the GlobalPost blog.

Instead, let me give a shout-out to Mohamed Effat, our amazing fixer and translator on the story.  Mohamed worked around the clock to make sure that Theo and I got the access we needed to tell this story.  His connections at the FIFA U-20 World Cup worked wonders to get us onto the field at Cairo Stadium after a warmup game between Egypt and Venezuela.   Read the rest of this entry »

With the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt this month, Daily News Egypt goes behind-the-scenes at the volunteer headquarters. Follow us as we look into what it takes to pull off such a massive event.